Wood Flooring or Laminate Flooring?

When it comes to choosing the type of flooring for your home, the owner may sometimes left in a dilemma to decide whether to have wooden floors or laminate floors for their homes.

Here, let's us look into the unique characteristics between these two types of flooring.

Solid wood flooring is the most authentic and more expensive than laminate flooring. Solid wood floor can increas the value of your property, in which laminate flooring can't. Each solid wood planks is unique and real. You are not able to find any two identical timber plank. Such is the beauty of real wood.

Then what about laminate flooring?

Laminate flooring, on the other hand, has its pros over real wood. Firstly, there is always variety in terms of wood species and colors available for laminate flooring. On top of that, a laminate floorboard usually has a coating of aluminium oxide on its top layer, making it highly scratch resistant against dragging of furniture on the flooring as compare to solid wood species. Laminate flooring is much easier to maintain as simple sweeping will do the job. For good quality laminate floor, the colors will also not change or fade over time.

Hence at the end of day, it is up to the owner to decide what type of flooring suits his budget and his preferences the best. Most importantly, the home owner must feel good about it.