New laminate flooring

Choosing of laminate flooring is very important thing in decorating your home. Here are some facts to remember during the making a choice:

1. Before going to shop imagine an overall look. Choose what mood you want to set with your floor decor: formal and elegant, rustic and casual, warm and light. Depending on that make your choice of laminate: stone or wood, light or dark.

   

2. Consider that wood and stone laminates are artificial so they look not so well close to real materials. For example, don’t install a faux-marble (or oak-look) laminate floor in the family room that meets up with a genuine marble (or oak floor) in the entryway. Remember that patterns with graining or other types of shading will not show soil as quickly as solids. Very dark patterns will darken the room and also will need much more cleaning.
3. Note that a laminate floor with a light texture - mimicking stone or wood, for instance - will look more like the real material.
4. Choose optical illusions created by a pattern carefully. A long strip pattern in flooring, when run with the length of a long, narrow room, will exaggerate the bowling-alley effect; in a square room, the long strips will give the room a rectangular feel.
5. Bear in mind that laminate flooring will last for many years, so you probably should avoid anything trendy or with such a strong pattern that it will be difficult to, say, replace the wallpaper, draperies or other furnishings.

Here are some different laminate flooring examples: