Go green at home with Linoleum City’s Marmoleum

Filed under: House + Garden — StyleGuide @ 9:14 pm

When we started work on our house, we agreed to try some green products.  (If you can’t experiment when you’re fixing up an abandoned crack den, when can you experiment?)

We were beyond thrilled with our Marmoleum linoleum floor from Linoleum City.  

Linoleum has been saddled with a sad association with those tattered, stained, pastel flower-printed vinyl squares you’ve probably seen in apartments and dumpy houses like mine.  The truth is that the term has been bastardized.  True linoleum is a biodegradable product made from natural renewable resources like linseed oil, wood flour, rosin, jute and limestone. 

There are so many things to love about linoleum that I decided to write a song — I mean, a list (that incidentally can be sung to the tune of “I Feel Pretty”). 

Linoleum is:

• Easily cleaned
• Naturally antimicrobial
• So durable they call it “40 year floor”
• Barefoot friendly — especially compared to cold tile floors

Linoleum can also go low-end (including materials and installation, linoleum tiles can end up on par with the price of inexpensive ceramic tile), or high-end (choose custom colored inlays designed by linoleum artists, or professionally installed sheet linoleum).

My main Marmoleum source — Linoleum City — is a gem in itself.  After 60 years on the same block, the family-owned behemoth with a small-town-hardware-store vibe just moved to a new, even larger warehouse.  I hope its charmingly simple handpainted signs and mom-and-pop mentality made the move, too.

Price:  $$$$

Where:  4849 Santa Monica Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90029

Call:  323.469.0063

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