Benefits of Wood Flooring

Wood flooring enhances the lifestyle of home living while it also gives your home decor that look of luxury. As what some home owners who are also wood lovers would say, "It is a completely different feel when you stepped on a real wood flooring than laminate flooring, tiles or marble." Wood flooring benefits both the home owners and the environment greatly. Let's look at the follow benefits.

Better air quality

Wood flooring, by nature, does not collect any dust mites or other types of allergens ; dust mites are agents of potential respiratory problem such as asthma. Hence, for family with kids and the elderly, wood flooring do help to greatly enhance the indoor air quality of the homes. Natural wood flooring are also low in VOCs and formaldehyde, which therefore, can help to better promote a fresher and cleaner home for you.

Luxury  

Wood flooring gives your home interior the look and feel of luxury. Especially when you have rare types of wood species installed on your place. Even if you use common types of wood  such as oak and walnut, your flooring is still unique on its own. Every piece of wood flooring is different from each other thereby it gives your flooring a one-of-its-kind feeling in the eyes of your guests.

Comfortable to the Feet

Wood keeps your feet warm during cold weather while it keeps it cooling when the weather is hot outside. This helps to keep your feet and body comfortable at all times. Unlike marble, stones, ceramics  or homogeneous tiles, that are too cold for the feet especially during cold weathers. 

Engineered Wood - A Better Alternative to Solid Wood Floor

Engineered wood flooring has a different structured than a real solid wood flooring, while it may seem that being manufactured as a finished product, engineered wood flooring product may have some disadvantage over solid wood flooring. However, it is the other way around. Good quality engineered wood flooring products are usually better in terms of its structural integrity and dimensional stability. On top of that, it comes in plank sizes while most solid wood flooring can only be in strips format. In terms of being Eco green, good quality engineered wood flooring is more eco friendly than solid wood as it can be make into many planks (4 to 6 pieces) compare to just a piece of solid wood floor.

In ending,
Wood flooring has a good variety of benefits that gives all the more reasons for the home owners to have it in their homes. The benefits of real wood is indeed, immeasurable.