Why black and white ? Wahy is the flooring next to this space ?IMO if tile is what you want do one color and I would do the black and white tile you have aleeady IMO that tile area in the center looks like you ran out of the nice tiles and filled it in. A very nice space do not mess it up.

Hi Patricia,

Thanks for your reply. Are you saying that in general having two colors is not advised? or that the white tiles aren't nice enough to be paired with the black?

See below the floor plan,

The living room is right on top divided by 1 stair, and shares the same layout, the foyer and hallways are all Portloren (black) and the kitchen is fully Emporio (white)

Would your opinion be different if the white tiles would be Marmo d'oro ?

And if you'd still stick to unicolor, would you keep or remove the gold frame?

Maybe it's just me. Looking at the dining room picture you posted above, I don't like it at all. THe whiter is too white and the black seems too severe ( if that is the color of your table and paint ). What about softening it a bit or changing the pattern?

Good luck! It will be great!

The frame idea with table sitting over it will visually make the room look smaller IMO. With the DR and LR open to each other, and both are formal public rooms, use the same flooring in both rooms. With those gorgeous windows, why aren’t you using the DR as the LR and situating the DR conveniently next to the kitchen?

@Debbi Washburn The furniture is what we have now, but we don't want to design the room based on that.

RE: your 2nd photo, that is quite similar! are you suggesting that adding more black inside the frame instead of starting the white right away will make it ?

@marylut I hear your point about making the room appear smaller, flooring is the same in DR and LR now, what flooring do you suggest?

Re: your 2nd comment regading the floor layout, there's more to it, but thanks for your suggestion.

Personally I don't like the black and white combination and layout. The floor also seem too sleek for the furniture shown.

It is hard to give suggestions without some context ... just from what you posted I would guess you are from the middle-east or south-east Asia, maybe living in Toronto, and trying to mesh cultural design preferences, local architecture and some trendier updated elements. Any of those guesses correct? I used to live in LA and similar floor designs would only be found in homes built or remodeled by Armenians and those houses would usually get resold to other Armenians. They are strong design choices with limited appeal to most buyers and also an expensive component to replace when it involves tile flooring throughout most of a house. My point is that in your particular area this might be a popular design choice, but you won't get much positive feedback for that design here on Houzz, which tends to be more transitional.

I don’t care for the design, but if you are dead set on it, I would do the largest frame option

@User by largest frame you mean widest black and smallest white ?

No largest white. I feel like the white is functioning like a rug would function. So I wouldn’t want to be constrained at a later date from using a bigger table or changing the function of the room to another use.

Why don’t you just do the entire floor black or white and get a contrasting rug?

Flooring is a structural feature of the house so design the flooring as if the room will stay empty and do not consider the 22” deep furniture. If you want the floor have an inlaid look, do a thick band around the perimeter as in Option 2. You definitely seem like More Is More people who would appreciate a thin gold band separating the two colors. Wouldn’t it be too contemporary for the house to then add another band inside the gold band? If you want to do LR and DR floors the same, I would go with all white rather than all black because I do not think your dark brown furniture and black floor will complement each other. Just saying….

I do like how the band is in between the black in the picture you mentioned - I think it shows up more - it seems lost next to the white. I also think the proportions in you original photo seem off. I would do more white and less black. I would also consider "softer" stone colors - the black and white can be harsh. It really depends on what is happening throughout the house, especially the adjacent areas. If it suits the house, then go ahead.

Thanks @Patricia Colwell Consulting @Debbi Washburn @marylut @chispa @User

I really appreciate all your inputs and I understand that this is a unique style, knowing the background of the house and culture I would stick with option 1 in the OP however I'm considering adding some black inside the gold parameter as in the screenshot @Debbi Washburn posted (attached).

I do have one more question for you, without considering this room, or any surrounding details what is your option regarding Emporio vs Marmo d'Oro ?

Mr & Mrs Perfectionista- Can you please explain this?

"knowing the background of the house and culture" and how that relates to your choice of dining room floor?

Once it’s on the floor, will it really make a difference which one you chose? I guess pay attention to the background color knowing each tile will be different.

In the image above that you like, the white tiles are not really veined, both Emporio and Marma d’Oro have strong veining.

The last image seems the best to me. Having two visibly veined tiles (black and white) won’t work - it gets too busy. Keep the veined black and choose a simpler, soft white.

The proportion should look like it’s a rug on top of a black floor.

@RedRyder what proportion do you suggest/recommend ?

The contrast in the floor is going to be really stark and draw the eye to the floor - do you have to have a border? How did you pick black and white with mainly brown / beige furnishings? How about a lighter/darker beige combo?

Add 30-36” feet to the outer dimension of your table with the chairs. That is the minimum a rug would need to be for people to pull out their chairs in a dining room. What is left over can be the black, but not if it’s thicker than 2-2.5 feet. I think 3 feet all around, in black, might look really “thick”.

Put down painter’s tape to get the dimensions right. Keep in mind the size of the tiles so you are using full sized tiles in the middle and full sized black ones. That is part of the beauty of that last black-white-gold floor.

Get samples of the tiles you want to use so them so it’s plotted out correctly. It will take time but worth it to get the proportions right. You don’t want the table and chairs looking “locked into” the center white area.

Am I making sense?