Friday, November 29, 2013

Home Flooring-What's The Best Choice?

Home Flooring-What's The Best Choice?

By Susan Vint


A reasonable well maintained floor can add a great deal to the overall value of your home. It's a real challenge to determine the best kind of flooring for your home. For the home owner, it's a lot of effort to determine what will best serve them when it comes to the flooring in each individual room.

Taking into consideration what the purpose is for the room, as well as the advantages and disadvantages of each different type of flooring will help you to best ascertain the kind of flooring that you want to use for that room.

Another question to ask yourself is, what is your lifestyle? Do you have children? Do you have pets? If so, then perhaps plush rugs in the lighter colors would not be the best option for you. Family rooms where you enjoy spending time, may not be the best option for this type of flooring. If your family room doubles as a game room where your family and pets spend a lot of time, perhaps the shorter darker carpeting would be a better option. Be practical, especially if your lifestyle does not allow for a lot of time to care for your home and carpets.

You might also want to take under advisement the architectural features along with the period design of the rooms. In addition, think about the varying humidity that will be in the room and whether there is enough heat and light to readily dry the rugs if you're considering doing that. In the bath and the kitchen, quite often humidity can be a real issue. Keeping a damp floor for a longer period of time allows for the growth of mold and mildew, both of which can cause real problems in the home.

There is definitely an endless array of flooring available. There are so many options with the different patterns, design options, colors, and textures, that this part of your decision will definitely not be an easy one. Consider what look you would like to present and what would you prefer.

Using your imagination will be very important because of the endless kinds of flooring available. The design options and the floor patterns are numerous and the hardest part will be deciding on a color and then settling on the kind of pattern or texture.

If you elect to carpet the rooms that you're going to redo, narrowing to plush, to low pile and then adding the choices of color will help you to determine the carpets that you are looking for. Once you've narrowed your options a little further, you can choose the flooring more readily when you arrive at the store.

The options from which you might choose when it comes to refurbishing your flooring include these:

Hardwood flooring is actually suitable for most any room. The practicality of this flooring is that it is extremely sturdy. Hardwood flooring may require more care if used in a high traffic area.

Carpet-plush or slender in nature, the carpet that you purchase will allow you a very broad range of choices in texture, color and length of pile as well as in different perks such as scotch guarding to keep the flooring cleaner.

Laminate flooring is fashioned after other textures, such as hardwood or brick. The laminate flooring is typically less costly than the original material it is fashioned after. The really good thing about the laminate flooring is that it is easily maintained and is appropriate for any room in your home.

Laminate-This is made to look like brick, hardwood or other textures. The laminate flooring is less costly than the original material it is fashioned after. This flooring is easily maintained and can be used in nearly any room of your home. Many times, people will install the laminate flooring and then use and area rug to cover part of it. This type of flooring is very easily cleaned and relatively easy to maintain.

As you can see, today your choices in flooring are literally endless. Taking all of the different aspects of the room under advisement prior to beginning to change over your flooring is always in order.




About the Author:



Share This

No comments:

Post a Comment

Designed By Blogger Templates