How Armstrong Flooring® Kaleido™ Color Lab Is Expanding Creative Possibilities in Commercial Flooring with Oxana Dallas

How Armstrong Flooring® Kaleido™ Color Lab Is Expanding Creative Possibilities in Commercial Flooring with Oxana Dallas

June 19, 2026 · 15 min · Episode 141

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The episode discusses how Armstrong Flooring®'s Kaleido™ Color Lab is transforming the flooring specification process into a more creative and flexible design experience.

In this special sponsored bonus episode of the I Hear Design podcast, host Robert Nieminen speaks with Oxana Dallas, principal designer of commercial at AHF Products, about how Armstrong Flooring®’s Kaleido™ Color Lab is reimagining the flooring specification process as a more creative, flexible, and digitally driven design experience. Rather than treating flooring as a finish selected near the end of a project, Kaleido invites designers to become co-creators—experimenting with pattern, color and scale. Dallas explains how the platform gives designers a curated yet highly adaptable system for developing custom LVT visuals that align with a project’s brand identity, emotional tone, and performance needs. Listeners will learn how Prism™, Mosaic™, and Mirage™ patterns draw on biophilic principles without literally mimicking nature, instead translating qualities such as rhythm, complexity, order, and visual tactility into modular flooring designs. Dallas also discusses how Kaleido’s floor-to-wall capability expands the role of LVT beyond the floor, opening new possibilities for wayfinding, feature walls, patient rooms, hospitality spaces, workplace environments, and other commercial…

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