HOME FLOORING: INTRODUCTION
Faced with the renovation of a house, the choice of flooring is often the one that takes the most time.
As soon as you start investigating between parquet, marble, ceramic and porcelain, the question that arises most frequently is one. That is, is it better to have one floor for the whole house or several floors depending on the room?
We understand that it is not an easy choice, the doubts are many and the factors to be considered even more so. In fact, we are here precisely to give you a hand in making the choice that best suits your needs of taste and functionality.
Often, in fact, the choice of flooring for a given room is also made on the basis of the function the room will have.
So, it is important, before choosing flooring, to be clear about what kind of house you really want to live in and to be clear about the layout of the various rooms and their functions.
We have collected some tips that will help you decide which is the best solution for you and your home.
Moreover, the floor is the first thing that jumps out at you when you enter a house. In fact, often what disturbs our sense of harmony or simply taste is precisely the layout or choice of flooring.
WHAT ARE THE DOUBTS IN CHOOSING?
Choosing flooring, involves a number of doubts that we are never able to answer with extreme certainty and knowledge.
When was the first time you noticed that you didn’t like the floor? Il primo giorno che sei entrato nella tua nuova casa? Or maybe you just never noticed it until yesterday and now you can’t help but notice it?
When and what was the reason that led you to think about it – the taste, the wear and the change – you can’t do anything about it now: it’s time to renovate the floors. But before you pick up the tools and hammer, it is a good idea to think about the whole project and the result you want to achieve.
Create even a visual division between the living and sleeping areas? Yield to practicality and reserve different floors for the bathroom and kitchen? Unify and bring all rooms closer together with a single material? Let’s see what the advantages of each option are.
TO EVERY ROOM ITS FLOOR
Over time,the tendency to reserve one or more rooms in the house a different floor has consolidated, depending on the functionality of each environment and the characteristics of each material.
Ceramic tiles, which are durable and easy to clean, have often predominated in bathrooms and kitchens, while terracotta or parquet is increasingly chosen in sleeping areas, due to the preference for less cold surfaces with warmer tones.
Also, not to be forgotten, especially for bedrooms, is the renewed use of carpeting. In fact, this type of flooring is perfect for keeping the room warm and giving the idea of absolute coziness, inside one’s bedroom.
Some of the latest Interior Design trends enhance for the more adventurous the possibility of differentiating the floors even within the same room, we can mix decorated hexagon and parquet planks together.
This is a risky choice, for the simple fact, that if you do not have a clear vision of the end result, you could risk creating a jumble of different patterns, finishes, and materials that in the long run end up tiring or, even, disgusting.
In fact, our advice, should you decide to make such a decision is simply to seek the help of a design expert who can give you a hand in balancing the use of different flooring within the environment, so as to create an aesthetic balance that can endure over time.
SINGLE FLOOR FOR THE WHOLE HOUSE
Instead, those who prefer to rest their eyes on the elegance of a single material will prefer to use a particular type of floor for the whole house.
It is a trend that is catching on especially in smaller living spaces, where it unifies rooms and makes them feel larger. At the same time, however, the single floor also works well in multi-story living solutions, giving an idea of continuity to the entire home.
In fact, among the main factors to be taken into consideration when choosing the floor, the size of the house or the various rooms is very important. The size of the home is critical in dropping the choice toward one material or another, a single floor or multiple floors, etc.
If you choose the right flooring, both for the size of the house and the style of decor you have decided to follow, you will realize that you can give ample emphasis to spaces that with other choices you probably would not have even noticed.
In fact, for example, a great idea is to use a material such as marble, porcelain tile or parquet.
Ideal for use as a one-size-fits-all solution is parquet-effect porcelain tile, which combines the technical properties of stoneware and the beauty of wood. In fact, in recent, times, thanks to the countless benefits of such a choice, porcelain stoneware has become one of the most widely used flooring materials ever.
For a unique floor, it is good to select the size of the tiles according to the size of the spaces, and it is also possible to mix sizes together to give movement to the surface while maintaining homogeneity.
However, if the solutions seem endless, it is wise to take advice from an expert in the field. Despite innovations in the field of materials, the risk of regretting too rash a choice is always just around the corner.
CONCLUSIONS
So, summing up we can certainly say that the choice of flooring is very important to give a defined identity to your home and environments.
The choice must be moved by awareness of several factors. First and foremost, personal taste. Also important are the size of the house (or rooms) and the style of furniture we have relied on.
In fact, as far as size is concerned, if the size is small, it is not wrong to use the same floor throughout the house, so that there are no sharp detachments of rooms that tend to make rooms smaller. Continuous flooring helps to visually expand the space of the apartment.
With regard to the floor according to the style of furniture adopted, it is important to know that, obviously, each style has its own peculiarities and prefers materials and tiles of a certain type.
For example, for modern, minimal, industrial or Nordic style houses, porcelain stoneware is perfectly suited to the chosen style. Instead, the parquet is perfect for shabby, rustic and, in some cases, even ethnic houses.
If the size is small, it is not wrong to use the same floor for the whole house, so as not to have sharp detachments of rooms that tend to shrink the rooms.
The continuous floor helps to visually expand the space of the apartment.
In closing, we reiterate our main advice: that is, rely on a design expert when choosing your floor, both in terms of the material and the fateful question of “unique floor or not.” In fact, this way you avoid making mistakes that you will regret and that may cost you dearly (including financially!) in the future.
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