If you are reading this article chances are you have decided to purchase hardwood flooring for your home or office. If you thought the tough part was deciding whether or not to buy hardwood floors, you are in for a surprise. The tough part is in fact deciding which shade or style of flooring would compliment your home or office the most, which style would best match with your wall, with your furniture and keep those pesky visual scratches down to a minimum.
Luckily having been importers and specialist suppliers of high quality wood products for many years, and have been selling online for the last 5 years, Wood and Beyond has come up with 3 top tips for choosing the right
hardwood floor style:
1. Have you considered patterned floors - This type of flooring also known as parquet flooring is a colorful combination of natural colors of wood used to decorate a room's floor using geometric designs. The most common style is block parquet where laid like wooden tiles are 'placed' in a geometrically uniform way. The second style, multilayer parquet is a combinations of narrow wood strips which are 'placed' in the form of ornaments. If you have not already, consider patterned floors.
2. Scratch resistant flooring is also a possibility - While the attraction of buying wooden floors has always been its beautiful shade, warm homely feeling and durability, if not maintained or if the wood is of low quality it might be susceptible to easily pesky scratches. Quality products on the other hand if properly sealed and maintained will yield long-lasting use, have great durability to common causes of scratches and can be refinished. For example, you will find that solid floors which are made from one piece of hardwood timber are very stable and known to last more than 100 years. Because they are made 100% real wood, solid floors are more durable and you will be able to sand , refinish or re-coat several times, making it appear new every time, thus greatly extending the useful life of the floors.
3. Make sure you now how it will look like - Sites such as Wood and Beyond offer the possibility to use a '
Virtual Room'. This handy online application allows you to fully visualize how the room would look like with type of floor you like most by customizing the color of the room's ceiling, the color of the walls and finally the color of the floor. By using the virtual helper and getting a snapshot of your room, you are in fact eliminating some of the unknown factors and concerns in the buying process, increasing the likelihood of ending with the style and color you really like.
