Choosing flooring that’s most suited to your home is an important decision to make when designing or renovating your space. The question, however, is hardwood flooring vs laminate, which option is best for you?
With respect to your chosen flooring option, you want to make sure that it fits your vision, aesthetically, economically, practically and stylishly. Let’s understand this, whilst considering areas in the home.
1) Let’s talk looks
Hardwood flooring for bedrooms is cosy, intimate, high-quality, and not to mention warm. This flooring option is very appealing for the more private areas in your house, and can go beautifully with an elegant interior style. It pairs well with wooden bedroom furniture and various textiles.
In that same manner, hardwood flooring in your guest rooms and living room areas will make a great option too, leaving quite the impression. Depending on how you design and style your home, a hardwood flooring option can appear cosy and rustic, minimalist and modern or a combination, if you prefer that.
2) Practicality
Now, speaking of choosing a flooring option, whilst considering the room in question – choosing laminate flooring for kitchens seems like an obvious move. It’s scratch-resistant, more durable, easy to clean, and it doesn’t fade easily. Similarly, for your balcony area, opting for a laminate flooring installation is a good idea – Heath Ripple and Cambrey Grey are stone flooring options that make pretty contenders for your balcony areas, big and small.
Laminate flooring for your living room area and additional guest rooms can also be a chic option. If you prefer to add more texture to your flooring with this option, you can add carpets and rugs. It’s also easy to have furniture with wheels on laminate flooring because it’s scratch-resistant and easy to gently polish, sweep, and wipe. Laminate flooring has a protective layer that makes it capable of retaining its appearance and colour.
Ultimately, when it comes to wood flooring vs laminate, Welspun Flooring is here to do the installation, seamlessly for you. Meant to save time and make the process less cumbersome, we use interlocking Click-N-Lock® Tiles that follow a Wel-Lock™ technology. This is a grout-free installation for all tile options, meaning our Click-N-Lock® Tiles can be laid over existing floor tiles without any breakage, and it takes less than a day for us to finish installation.
With respect to your convenience, the Welspun Flooring installation process is dust-free and noise-free – we understand the need of the hour without compromising on work. Our goal is to make your transition smooth without causing disruptions and delays.
For your wood home flooring, a preferred option for effective hardwood flooring maintenance is using a light feather duster, microfibre mop with gentle action, and the slightest amount of lukewarm water and simple anti-germ solution. Rough actions are not advised, though with our stain-resistant and scratch-resistant Click-N-Lock® Tiles, you needn’t be worried.
A similar method can be followed for a laminate flooring option to keep it glossy. Regarding wood floor maintenance, it can be swept, daily; if you are wiping it with a gentle solution, then, a weekly maintenance ritual is good too.
Hardwood flooring maintenance depends on your environment (in the house and around) as well as frequent use. If you keep your windows open during the day for long intervals, it is advisable to dust your floors, a few odd times a day and henceforth.
A wood flooring installation is preferred for bigger spaces with long corridors, a study at home, guestrooms, and generally, houses with a bigger surface area.
That said, wood home flooring is capable of equally making your home appear spacious, when styled right. Your office wood flooring can be elevated with carpets, rugs, suitable lighting, neutral textiles, and matching furniture, for instance. Wood floor maintenance is easy in such cases, because even if you prefer switching things around every once in a while, our wooden flooring tiles, made with a stone polymer composite, are perfect to work with. Not only are they flame-resistant and impact-resistant, they are skid-proof, termite-resistant and waterproof.
Now that you have an idea of the things to consider, we’ll leave you with some recommendations that’ll make you choose, based on your vision, colour preference and personal style.
Amongst our top picks are the distinctive classics, Carolina Cherry, Light Oak, Luisiann Laurel, Serenity Sunflower, and Teak Brown. If your interior style leans a little global, whimsical and forever evolving, these soothing neutral MultiStile™ options will complement your decorating dreams: Harvest Harmony and Shaker Oak.
In order to make the selection process even more seamless, take advantage of our smart View in Your Space button on every flooring tile pick. Through this futuristic feature, you can upload a picture of your space, helping you note and narrow down the details.
