5 Room-by-Room Flooring Options

Choosing the best flooring for your home can be daunting. Here is some advice on choosing the best flooring option for each room in your house.

For your living room: hardwood

Hardwood is one of the many types of wood out there, and is a visually stunning choice for your daytime living space that’s also easy to clean. You can vacuum your wooden floors during your general weekly clean and mop it using a hardwood floor cleaner, perhaps once a month or so. Mopping up spills on a hardwood floor is easy, although you should do it as quickly as possible to avoid moisture stains. Though it can scratch easily, overall, hardwood is a stylish and tough-wearing choice.

For your kitchen: natural stone tiles

Elegant in a quiet, understated way, natural stone tiles from this Tile Shop Guiseley will give your kitchen a rustic and homely feel. Food and drink spillages can be easily wiped up, and the insulating properties of stone will keep your kitchen from heating up too much in the summer months. Like hardwood, stone tiles are easily scratched, so choose your finish carefully and perhaps go for tumbled tiles rather than highly polished ones.

For your bathroom: ceramic or porcelain tiles

Glazed porcelain or ceramic tiles are a great way to experiment with colours and patterns in your bathroom. Easily dried, they are an energy-efficient choice that will give your bathroom a lively feel. For those who were wondering, the difference between ceramic and porcelain is in the manufacturing process: while ceramic is made entirely from clay (red, brown, or white) porcelain results from a mixture of white clay, sand, and feldspar, a rock-forming mineral. Porcelain tiles are more durable and easier to maintain than ceramic ones, but they are often more expensive. If budget is an issue, choose a simple laying pattern to minimise the time it will take to install the tiles.

For your hallways: linoleum

Yes, really! After falling out of fashion in favour of various other laminates, linoleum is making a comeback in the UK. This once-ubiquitous flooring option is cheap to buy, easy to install – you can probably do it yourself – and can be a great way to add a splash of colour to your hallways, though you can also buy it in muted tones. Another great thing about linoleum is that it’s made from renewable materials, including linseed oil, which gives it its name (‘oleum’ is the Latin word for ‘oil’). If the edges of the sheet start curling away from the wall you should heat them up with a hair dryer, apply a new layer of adhesive, roll the edges of the linoleum flat with a rolling pin and keep them in place with something heavy for several hours, until the glue has dried.

For your bedroom: deep pile carpet

After a long day at work, when bedtime arrives, you’ll want to feel cosy, and there’s nothing cosier than soft, deep pile carpet. Perfect for walking around barefoot, deep pile carpet will cushion your feet as you swing out of bed in the morning and will help you relax and prepare for sleep in the evening. So cosy!