a $0.07 per square foot price difference for 13 sg feet of flooring is nothing. I assume that you are comparing the prices based on an installed floor.

I'm not sure if one flooring is more eco-friendly than the other. I think that you should go with the one that is more esthetically pleasing to you. they are very different looks. the marmoleum will be easier to maintain. I have marmoleum on my 1936 kitchen, breakfast room, and laundry room floors since it works with that vintage.. It is pretty hard to destroy and is easy to keep. my marmoleum does not try to replicate stone. it is basically a color splatter pattern that has every bold color imaginable.

Hi Kelley, it's actually working out at $11.00 per square yard more expensive to do the Expona vinyl flooring which might seem like nothing to you, but that is not nothing to me at the moment, as I am completing this renovation with less money than is required, having put my savings into the house purchase and refurb. It's the difference between affording an extractor hood fan for my kitchen this month or not! I do believe marmoleum is more eco-friendly, as it is made from 97% raw materials so this is weighing in on my choice. I prefer the look of the Expona stone effect but I'm leaning towards Marmoleum due to cost and environmental factors.

Your kitchen sounds nice! Do you have pics??

The lighter grey small samples vs Marmoleum grey samples is pretty much what I'm looking at!

sorry, I must have read the number incorrectly and I thought the other product was stone NOT vinyl.

definitely go with the linoleum since it is more eco-friendly. I'm not familiar with the vinyl product that you wee contemplating. every vinyl floor that I have had cracked over time and they easily scratched.

I do not have any images of my kitchen. it is in serious need of a renovation. When I purchased this property 12 years ago, I just replaced the kitchen's delalidated vinyl flooring and painted. This marmoleum has surfaced lots of abuse from dogs and construction traffic feom when i gutted the rest of the house to renavate. My kitchen is on my "To Do List". I will miss this flooring when I replace this kitchen.

Yes I think I'm definitely veering towards the Marmoleum! Thanks for the input - by all accounts it seems to be a very durable floor which is exactly what we need ! Now to decide on colour options... Oh what fun!

I would pick one that is closer to the color of the wood floor that buts up to it. I'm not sure if you are doing a sheet or plank install. if you use the sheet, try to install it so that the seams are not so prominent.

He said he would graduate the floor so it feels like one floor. Re: colour matching I am glad you said that. I am torn between zoning the two spaces and not worrying about contrast, or blending. I guess if blending I could have just gone with hardwood throughout. I'm waiting for fitter to come back with a could of samples so I'll post next week with pic!

I bought enough wood for the future renovation of the kitchen, laundry room, and breakfast room when I renovated the rest of my house about 8 years ago. however, I'm not sure that I can live with wood in the kitchen and laundry. with the marmoleum, I do not worry if the dogs knock over their water bowl or if I make a mess cooking. I have very distressed ash cloors sealed with dark oil in the rest of the house except for the floor in bathrooms and hallway going through a spa area where I have Labrador Antique granite. I maintained the same color since all the rooms open into each other and the all the doors are pocket doors and sTay open most of the time.

Just wanted to say thanks to all, we went with Marmoleum. I chose 'dove grey' which was closest to what I was going for. It actually looks bluer than it did on sample...but I am happy enough with it. Not my perfect floor to be honest, but a huge improvement on what was there! My son is very happy to be able to kick his ball up and down and the dust is gone, hallelujah!

In the original architect drawings we had created a lobby with a birch ply pocket door into kitchen. we did away with the wall due to budget but I'm thinking I might install some sort of partition to create this lobby space after all!

Never ends !!

We have used marmoleum in one project and it turned out really well. We actually had circles custom cut in a contrast color inserted into it. (purple and lime per client request) My only thought is, don't try to make it something it is not. Do not try to recreate a stone look because it never will. Just go with the fun colors. Not sure what your budget is but you could look into Luxury Vinyl Tile. It really is beautiful and I think it prices somewhere between $6-10 check out the Karndean Opus Line. We especially like the Ignea color. That being said, this product breaks all of our rules about trying to be something you are not. The photographic process is beautiful and it looks like wood. We have used it in basements, kitchens and commercial offices. Definitely worth a look. We also find hesitation on contractors who are unfamiliar with the product. Ultimately, they love it. It is a direct glue down product.

Yeah I was loving the fact that Marmoleum is so eco friendly. Thanks for the advice! The floor has already been fitted. I did check Amtico and Karndean. It was the environmental element plus colour rather than stone effect that I was after and I'm feeling a little put out by the bluey hue which was not so apparent in the sample. My instinct was to go with the 'cement 3136' by my partner is a decorator and he assured me the green tinge would look awful against my birch ply cabinetry and I think he was right.

The light in the room is not good either and we have not painted yet so I am hoping all these small improvements will make a difference as I don't plan to change the floors any time soon. I am quite happy with how it meets the wood floor in the room as I was worried this would look strange but I think it is ok?