Best Flooring For Each Room In Your House
When designing a flooring plan for your home when building new or remodeling, it is important to keep in mind that some flooring types are better suited for specific rooms and others might not work best in some areas.
In a kitchen, a tile floor is just a great option in these areas of your house that see a lot of traffic. It holds up over time with minimal scratching to the surface and holds up well against stains and drops that are frequent in the kitchen. Tile is also perfect due to the ease of cleaning it, this type of flooring has a decent surface to keep sanitary versus wood or vinyl which can hold bacteria in the cracks or surface scuffs that they both can have. Tile is great for water resistance and allows accidents to not stain or alter the floors themselves.
Bathrooms are also a great fit for tile, but also resin floors. Resin Floors in a bathroom can give all of the benefits of tile, with a smoother finish due to the lack of grouting. The only real setback of tile is that the grout itself can be difficult to clean, once stained or aged. Resin floors hold up and have the same water resistance but have the aesthetic of whatever you want without the tediousness of fixing or laying tiles in place. Tile can also clash with a bathroom plan, whereas resin floors can be a blank slate or focal point.
Dining and communal rooms need a visual warmth and comfort that some flooring options seem to not quite match. Wood is the most aesthetically pleasing of these options when it comes to a feeling of community or warmth in tone and touch. Solid wood floors and engineered wooden floors hold up well over time, but can also show wear, which is a familiar setting that can bring back strong memories for the whole family. Wooden flooring in these types of rooms sees traffic and stress still but at lower capacities compared to bedrooms, kitchens, and bathrooms, which get a lot of foot traffic, water, and other stresses. Engineered woods can hold up longer if you’re looking for a room that won’t show those wears and will also hold up better to avoid seasonal shrinkage so that you don’t hear the creaks that general wood does seasonally.
Bedrooms and finished basements are best designed by what aesthetics you’re looking for and also by how you use those rooms. Carpets hold heat and can help with sound reduction throughout your home, but carpets wear, stain, and aren’t always the most design appealing flooring solution. Resin floors in these spaces can be overlaid upon heated elements to keep them warm and they’re built to hold up for years of wear but they’re harder to replace if you decide to change room or design elements. Whereas carpet can just be pulled up and left out or replaced.
The best ideas for the flooring solutions in your home ultimately fall upon you and what you want. However, keeping these solutions in mind while designing can save you a lot of time contemplating which floors work best. Some are more ideal than others, but it’s your home and ultimately comes down to how you want your home to look that will decide what flooring solutions you choose.
