How to Choose the Right Flooring that Fits Your Home?

A home always “speaks” about the home owner’s everyday lifestyle. Every little details count; from the placement of furniture to the comfort of your living hall floor. It is like a story about the home owners’ lives, style and experiences that they wish to share with their guests. By looking at the various choices of flooring, furniture and other accessories design, you can easily tell what is the style and character of the host. When you need to renovate your new or existing home, you have to be very clear about the design direction that you wish to achieve at the end of the whole renovation. With a clear design goal for your home décor, naturally you will be able to choose the right fixtures and furniture for your home.

So how to choose the right flooring that fits right into your lifestyle when there are many types of flooring in the market today?

Do Your Research Independently

By getting ample information about certain credible flooring brands in the market, choosing a good quality flooring product for your home is easy. Furthermore, you should personally go down to different shops to source for the right material that you feel comfortable living with.

In this way, rather than being motivated to buy because of low prices, promotion discounts and marketing advertisements from flooring retailers in which you may or may not enjoy good quality flooring in the end. It is best to hold your horses, be patient while you do your research independently before you make that buying decision to buy the right flooring.

What About Families With Children?

For families with children, you have to consider whether the flooring is safe for them. Sometimes, children tend to laze around the floors after they are done playing with their toys, flooring such as wooden flooring or HERF might be the best choice as the flooring is not too cold for them.

Sometimes, your young “Picassos” may scribble on the walls and floors using the markers or pens that are found within their reach around their homes.  In such kind of situation, please relax and be calm first. There are highly stain resistant flooring in market such as HERF and good quality laminate flooring; all you need to do, is a little bit cleaning solution or “thinner” and piece of cloth to wipe your children’s “masterpieces” on the flooring away.

The Slip?

Children always love running and jumping around the house; and if your home has elderly walking about, it is always best to choose a flooring with high slip resistance properties.  Good quality laminate flooring and HERF are highly slip resistant; and this warranties zero or less slipping accidents at home. Touch wood a little, even if there is a slipping accident, the impact of the fall is minimized if you choose good flooring products that has cushioning effect.

In summary, choose and decide on a type of flooring that suits everyone in your family because you will be living with it for long term. Find a good flooring contractor to enhance your floor buying experience but still, the final buying decision and selection is in your hands.

Written By: Zhiqi Ng, Edited By: Jacky Tan