When you buy a home you want to get your interior design just right. It needs to look beautiful yet practical and the flooring you choose makes a huge difference to the feel of a room. Here we explore how choosing the best flooring for your home can make a difference.
Choosing the best flooring for your home – Practicality
The first thing you’re going to want to consider when choosing the perfect flooring is whether or not it is practical to you and your current lifestyle. You’ll need to take into account things such as.
- Who do you live with? (partner, children, housemates etc)
- Who will be coming round to visit?
- Do you have any pets? If so what kind of pets?
Often the best type of flooring for any situation is wooden flooring. Wooden flooring is very practical as it’s easy to clean and compared to carpets less likely to stain if you look after it well.
You may be concerned if you have a specific budget to stick to but wooden flooring isn’t necessarily out of reach. If you’ve always thought it was expensive to buy you should check out this very affordable solid oak flooring which looks great.
Choosing the best flooring for your home – Looks
Now we’ve thought practically about which the of flooring to go for let’s now consider how it’s going to look. You may have thought that wooden flooring may make a room feel colder but with some strategically place rugs that needn’t be the case.
Placing some beautifully fluffy rugs on your engineered oak flooring can make a room feel luxurious and warm. Plus rugs are so much more easier to clean than a carpet. You can definitely have a cosy and stylish room using wooden flooring instead of carpet.
Final Thoughts
We experience less stains and cleaning a wooden floor is 10 times easier than trying to clean a carpet every year! Wooden flooring is definitely the way forward for the stylish yet practical modern home and it’s not expensive either.
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