Saturday several of us went to a flooring store to explore all of the possible alternatives for our new community. I had no idea that the variety of colors and choices was so wide.
We looked at bamboo, cork and carpet...all nice and all possible alternatives for our living spaces.
Our architect recommended marmoleum for our kitchen and bathroom floors. When I first hear about it, I turned up my nose. I remembered the old stuff in the kitchen of the home where I grew up. It was ratty looking and my mother polished it with wax every week, leaving a yellowy finish on it. Gross!
The new marmoleum is definitely something else. It's made of all natural fibers and comes in a huge array of colors. And the texture is much more solid and much nicer looking. It's actually something that I think would look nice in my new condominium.
Our future homes are beginning to feel very real as we touch and feel all of the things that are going to be part of it.
I too liked the look of Marmoleum (and I too had started with a rather negative attitude, based on the linoleum in my parents kitchen 70 years ago...)
ReplyDeleteI liked the ones that gave the impression of a rather light woodwork, without actually pretending to be boards.
I also was intrigued by the idea that when the flooring is laid, although it comes in wide sections from a roll, the separate sections are "welded" together to form a near-invisible seam.
I was pleasantly surprised that it seemed to be less expensive than any of the other floorings we looked at.