12/12/2023
Brief guide to the perfect surface underfoot!
Many homeowners focus on the look and price of flooring, without thinking through what it will be like to live with the material over the long term. Here are the factors you need to weigh to make the smart decision.
✅ Comfort: Flooring materials that offer a softness underfoot will be much more comfortable than those that are rock hard, like concrete, stone and porcelain. Especially in rooms where you do a lot of standing — think kitchen and laundry room, for example —comfort is critical.
✅ Maintenance: Most floors look fabulous when they’re first installed. Vinyl, laminate and engineered wood are extremely easy to care for. Materials that need to be sealed, like stone and linoleum, are much higher maintenance.
✅ Health and sustainability: Some floors are better for you and for the planet. As a rule, the fewer synthetic materials they contain, the better.
The best flooring options for your home:
💎 Hardwood flooring.
There are two main types of hardwood flooring: solid wood flooring, which as the name implies consists of a one solid piece of wood, and engineered wood flooring, in which a thin veneer of real wood is bonded to layers of structural plywood.
💎 Vinyl flooring.
It ranges from inexpensive, DIY-friendly peel-and-stick tiles to so-called luxury vinyl tile (or LVT, for short) which consists of multiple layers, including a design layer with a high-definition printed image, a durable top layer and several cushion layers.
💎 Laminate flooring.
Laminate is another engineered product, though instead of a veneer of wood on top, it uses a photo of wood (or stone or any other material) and adds a protective plastic coating. The substrate of laminate flooring typically consists of dense fiberboard.
Source: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/home/renovation/a40617015/best-flooring-guide/
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