Leave your guests awestruck with infinite ideas to lay the perfect floor at your house or business. Creativity has no limits and neither are the options available in creating stunning floors.
Here are some innovative ideas gaining popularity:
1) Marble laid at random
Nothing beats the patterns found in natural marble. The whirls of the veins formed by seeping water over millennia is a feast to the eyes. Marble flooring is timeless, durable and offer an exquisite appeal. Traditionally, marble is laid in a uniform size with the grains and veins following a symmetrical pattern. Though the floors donned a natural and artistic look, designers have taken a break from this convention. The upcoming trend is to place the marble in a random fashion without heeding to the flow of veins and grains. As a result, the inherent pattern of the marble is tossed out, to deliver a new look. Certain bold designers even go to the extent of not maintaining uniform sizes within the same laid area.
2) Granite in different Finishes
The gleaming spectacle of granite is the pinnacle of luxury. The affluence of the granite floor generates a magic spell as you walk barefoot on them.
It is customary to expect a granite floor to be fully glossy with a glistening look. This tradition is being challenged by freethinking designers. The latest trends concerning granite flooring is to give the granite a rustic look. This can be accomplished by giving the granite a leathery, a honed, or a carassa finish. Few uncompromising interior designers even use a combination of matte and polished finishes to denote depth in flooring.
3) Limestone
The warmth of a limestone floor enthralls your inner souls. The softness of the stone can be felt as you walk on it. The yearning for natural flooring yet not wanting to spend more directs to choosing limestone flooring. Just seal the limestone with appropriate materials to avoid seepage of moisture and get to see its amazing durability.
4) Travertine on the FLOOR
A form of limestone found beneath the lakes or riverbeds. The flowing water or the geo-thermally heated hot springs shaped these wonderful stones. The textures of travertine are a spectacle to watch and are available in various colors with natural contours that can give your floor an air of composure and style.
It is worth mentioning that Travertine was earlier used only on the walls. The extra porosity of the travertine material is a significant reason behind it. But the advent of new filling composition and techniques, enable them to be laid on the floor too without any glitch.
5) Large Sized Tiles
Vitrified, Sintered or Porcelain tiles are manufactured to have low porosity, making maintenance a breeze and thereby becoming the most sought after flooring solution. The availability of tiles which mimick natural marble, and wood are also a reason for them to become a popular choice, but with one problem… small size!
The current technological developments are purely aimed at addressing this problem. Tiles are now available in an array of sizes, ranging from 4’ x 4’ till 8’ x 4’ and some even in 10’ x 5’. The assorted finishes and patterns on these large-scale tiles mesmerize your creativity. The tiles in large format demand fewer joints and hence have a more seamless flow giving the floor an unaffected appeal. Furthermore, the new “Digi-Print” technology has made it almost impossible to differentiate tiles from natural stone and wood, making it an ideal choice with none of the hassles associated with natural flooring.
6) Hassle-Free Wooden Flooring
The ambience created by Natural Solid Wood is highly palpable. With wood, timeless magnificence admixes with luxury to provide a top-notch flooring solution. Coming in different hues, dark and light shades, the pores of the natural hardwood make it blend seamlessly with the furnishings of any living room. Choose from a wide range of solid hardwood varieties like American Walnut, Coffee Oak, Merabu, Cumaru, or Jatoba, to give your living room the facelift it requires rightfully.
Engineered wood is the new innovation where the base layer is composed of a wooden board made by binding the fibers, and strands of wood together; the top layer consists of the actual species of timber. This multilayer construction offers unimaginable durability. Their resistance to scratches and dents is by far the best. Engineered wood is a preferred option today because of its ability to handle the expansion and contraction that occurs with natural wood, whilst giving the same look and feel as solid wood.
In the past, installing and polishing wood on the floor was a tedious task, but now with the introduction of prefinished wooden planks that come with an easy interlocking mechanism, wooden flooring has become a quick and easy solution. The system does not require any gluing or nailing thereby making the entire process hassle-free.
