You might be lucky an inherit a floor that you absolutely adore, old hardwood floors that need a little TLC or tiles in the most dreamy of charcoal hues. If however, you’ve landed yourself a floor that you fantasise about revamping, then there are options for you. Although it certainly isn’t —- it shouldn’t fall in the too hard basket, because the reward is a reimagined space, designed and implemented with you in mind and provides the perfect canvas for the the carefully curated furniture you’ve got ready to roll. Keeping in mind, the flooring will vary for different rooms in your home - I am in no way suggesting you carpet your bathroom - but here are so options to consider across the board.

Carpet

Case and point, carpet is an excellent solution for bedrooms and general living spaces in your home. It insulates beautifully, incorporating a layer of warmth within your home for the winter time. It’s soft under foot, and simple to clean. With carpet, comfort is it’s biggest selling point. Unlike tiles or floorboards, carpet softens a space, and adds texture to a room depending on the style you decide on. You can opt for natural/woven fibres or a simple finish, in an array of colours. Covering everything from creamy whites to deep charcoals, carpet is customisable for you.

Tiles

The clear solution for your bathroom space, however, it was often incorporated into kitchen and dining spaces - now new home owners are utilising tiles in their outdoor dining spaces in replacement of decking. This easy to clean flooring solution is simple to run a mop over in a kitchen, unaffected by drops and spillages. Tiles are available now in both colour and texture variations that mimic other flooring options. You can opt for cement look tiles, floorboard look tiles and you can customise the shapes, narrow, short, hexagonal, seamless, tiles are the most flexible of flooring solutions you can find. Depending on your colour choice, they can certainly make a space feel cooler and are definitely cold underfoot - unless you’re in the market for under floor heating.

Floorboards

Whether you decide on hardwood flooring or wood laminate makes a huge difference on both the outcome however aesthetically floorboards are charming and they can almost be run through the entire house (bar the bathrooms). Hardwood floors traditional wear worse then the laminate flooring which have been specifically engineered to replicate wooden floors with a durability element. Wood flooring doesn’t soften the acoustic as well as carpet but has the added bonus of being just as simple to clean as tiles, it simply lacks the variations that tiles bring to the table.

Polished Concrete

Ahhh the new-comer, polished concrete, glorified across all your favourite renovation shows as the one to watch, and my gosh, it’s good looking when it’s done. This process can be slightly more complex, a few more decisions to make; What colour concrete? What colour will the flecks through it be? What is the finish going to be like, matte or gloss? It tends to veer more on the exxy side as floorings go, but if your desired outcome is modern, sleek and impactful then you’ve found your floor.
 

Rosalie Molloy

Creative Director
www.notsavinglives.com

Posted: 29 May 2018