if standing on both is ok to both of you, then I'd go by price. I think both will be easy on the feet/legs and easy care. you might just hold a piece of each next to your counter top/cabs and see which you like best.
take a vote between the 2 of you... lol!

For what it's worth, my grandmother had a cork floor in her kitchen. It went in somewhere around (or before) 1962 and still looking brand-new when I last saw it in 1992. Any floor that holds up for 30 years is pretty great in my book!

Also, depending on the linoleum pattern you choose, it could look dated in a decade or so. Not so with cork -- it's timeless.

I just received the two bids for the cork and Marmorette. The cork was higher by $1100.....but their bid for the Marmorette was about $500 higher than the other store (that sells "tile of color"). Today my DH is gathering receipts now that we've settled on a GC. We already have all appliances, sinks and faucets. We know which granite we'll use (I'm 90% sure anyway). The cabinet guys were here yesterday, and I was making some custom decisions based on great ideas posted here.

Hearing the difference between the cork and lino a few minutes ago caused a great sucking sound to come out of my dear, dear DH.

I'd still love to hear from more folks on this..thanks, petestein and desertsteph!

We'll be doing cork. I hear it's great on joints because it is slightly squishy (not enough to notice, but enough for your joints to notice.) It's also eco-friendly, as they only harvest the bark and then it grows back.

I have marmoleum tile in my kitchen and I absolutely love it. It is really soft and easy to take care of. I have had my floor for only a year and a half so I cannot comment on what it will look like in 5 or 10 years. On the other hand I do have a dh who is a human tornado in the kitchen every time he cooks, and toddler. My toddler parks, races and drops all sorts of cars and toys all over the kitchen and the floor looks great. Not to mention all of the spills.

I was also considering cork, but went with marmoleum and am really glad I did. In fact I am currently replacing the cabinets and changing the layout in my kitchen but the floor is staying.......

Good Luck.

Marmoleum is a green product too. Since the pattern goes all the way through, it wears like iron.

We just put it in our upstairs bathroom and love it. It feels yummy barefoot.
Marmoleum is the original linoleum. We went with 'All the colours in the rainbow' for our 'happy' bathroom. My niece did her DDs bedroom with marmoleum. Mine is vintage inspired for our 1912 era home. My niece chose to go modern. I love both looks.

Here's a photo of our marmoleum. Bathroom is still a work in progress and tub was yet to be installed in this photo. Good luck with your choice. I don't see how you can go wrong with either.

Golddust, great floor!
We tore up a corner of our existing three layers of flooring last night. There is a layer of glue (according to our son, who works for a restoration construction company)or something yucky under vinyl layer 1, subfloor, and vinyl layer 2. Under that icky layer is a wood-plank floor, we think...
I'd still like more feedback on Marmoleum/Marmorette vs. cork. Is the price difference worth it for cork??

One word of caution: If you are removing old flooring, you need to make sure it does not contain asbestos. It was around 1985 when asbestos was fazed out of flooring. We had this problem and decided to leave the flooring in place and put in a new wooden subfloor and layed the new flooring on tope of that. We worried that the difference in height would be a problem, but it's not.

You should have the old flooring tested for asbestos. If the test turns out positive, you should either leave it in place or hire professional asbestos remediators to remove it. The latter alsternative is expensive. Asbestos is a health hazard when it is air borne and breathed in. it causes a horrible lung disease, mesothelioma, which is fatal after a long period of pain and discomfort. Better safe than sorry.

Haus proud, thanks for the cautionary tale. The reason we have three layers is because of this very thing. But now it's time to tear it out, and do it right with the new kitchen re-do.
Our son is in the restoration construction business in another state, and he's been advising us about how to do this properly.
Jakabedy, the cork I brougth home is a cork-faced plank floor. The price could indeed reflect this...thanks. I hadn't thought of this!

I have had a cork floor in my kitchen for 15 years and love it. I had it in a rental before that and would always choose cork. It is incredibly easy to clean iif you don't choose a dark colour. A friend put in very dark brown and it shows everything.

It's easy on the legs and I love the way it looks. One thing you might consider a problem is it fades if there are any skylights in the room. Mine has gone from the toasty brown colour to blond. And, you can see a very clear rectangle when you move the rug by the sink in my kitchen. But I don't care because there's always a rug there.

We were definitely going to do cork in our kitchen, but because we did red birch cabinets, the cork competed with our cabinets. We ended up doing marmoleum click planks -- it was very reasonably priced (DIY) and we love it and it was great not having any toxic odors out-gassing in our house. That said, given that you are doing white cabinets, I'd be tempted to do the cork (we still would have done planks over glue-down -- we wanted to avoid the glues...). Both floors are cushy.

Okay, I just read over 100 reviews on www.greenerbuilding.org about Marmoleum. Comments ranged from "It's wonderful! Easy care, looks great, wears so well," to "It's total crap, I'd never have it again, you can't clean it, seams look awful," and so on.
I know that every choice will have its detractors and its praisers...but for me, it is getting more difficult to discern if the Marmorette will be the right choice for us. Your comments about sun fading the cork scares me a bit---we will, for the first time, have lots more sun in our kitchen, because we're taking walls out and enclosing a back sun porch.
Seams with the linoleum concern me. Making sure the installer is fantastic seems to be a must, according to the website I mentioned above.

Obviously, more discussion with our KD is needed.

Any further thoughts? Thanks a lot.