THE ULTIMATE HOMEOWNERS GUIDE TO CHOOSING YOUR FLOORING IN DIFFERENT ROOMS
Choosing the perfect flooring for different rooms in your home can be hard, especially as each room has different uses and purposes. You also want the style and design of your home to be cohesive and flow throughout therefore it can be difficult when deciding on flooring for rooms that may have different styles or specific uses to others. The main factors to consider when choosing your flooring is what style, colour do you want and what are the functionalities of your space. You want to make sure all the flooring that you are choosing work consistently together, try not to go for a large variety of different materials as this won’t show consistency throughout your home.
LIVING ROOM
The living area’s flooring can range from sculpted carpet, wood, laminate, vinyl, bamboo, cork, stone or tile this often depends on the layout and style you want for your home. The trick is to have a match or similarity in colour of the floor with the entryway, as one flows into the other this should be cohesively allowing the hues to blend. The same applies to a dining room especially when open-plan, hard flooring is efficient and tile or stone. Consider the practicality of your flooring, wood scratches from the movement of furniture and carpets can stain from food or drink spillages.
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KITCHEN & FAMILY AREAS
In an open plan layout into a kitchen, your family room or living room should continue with the same flooring to allow your space to flow nicely. When choosing different floorings ensure that the two merge tastefully together this may be through colour or material and using a threshold. Your kitchen flooring can be tile, slate, stone, cork, engineered hardwood flooring, vinyl. Be careful not to opt for solid woods or laminate as these can expand and contract when moisture and temperature levels change which can lead to warping. In family areas when choosing carpet appoint a sculpted finish preferably in a dark/warm colour to prevent footwear marks and stains.
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BATHROOM
In your bathroom, you want to have flooring which is resilient and waterproof as your bathroom acts as a wet room, especially if you have children around as water will be splashed everywhere! The most popular option for bathroom flooring is ceramic or porcelain tile as they are perfectly efficient for bathrooms and have such a wonderful variety of colours and designs. Alternatively, you can go for luxury vinyl flooring, stone, rubber, polished concrete, marble/quartz and engineered wood flooring or you may want to go for a different material such as colourful micro cement.
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MASTER BEDROOM
Choose luxury flooring for your master bedroom to give a tasteful feel to your room. You may want plush carpeting, wood, tile, vinyl or laminate. As this is your bedroom you want to feel comfy and cosy within this space therefore it is better to opt for a warming flooring other than a cold stone or slate. If you have an en-suite consider how the two spaces coordinate together, you want the floorings to flow into each other and work cohesively. As you consider think about the colour hues between the floorings and the material that allows each to compliment one another.
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CHILDREN’S ROOM
Your children’s bedrooms should have hard-surface flooring due to spillage stains and markings which may occur during playtime, especially if your child has a lot of heavyweight toys or furniture that will be moving around the space a lot. As this is a children’s room this allows you to be more creative within this space and possibly opt for a more bright, colourful flooring. A distressed laminate is perfect for wear and tear as well as being better value for money as a pose to a wood. Alternatively, cork, vinyl or a colourful playful rubber matting would be suitable options for your little one’s bedroom or playroom, you can also use large rugs to cover over hard flooring for safety when your baby is taking their first steps!
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With this design breakdown, you will be able to select the perfect flooring for all the rooms in your home. Are you ready to start styling?
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