5 Floor Covering Options

Choosing a floor covering for your home can be difficult. Your floor covering must compliment your overall home decorating scheme. Some floor covering options are vinyl flooring, tile floors, hardwood floors, carpeting and linoleum. Which floor covering option is right for you? That all depends. Let’s take a look at the various floor covering options available for you.

Floor Covering Option #1

Vinyl tiles are a floor covering option that have gained a lot of popularity in recent years. A vinyl floor is easy to care for and is inexpensive as well. Vinyl floors made of vinyl tiles are an attractive options for those who desire the look of expensive tile floors, but can’t afford them. In addition, if you tear or mar a vinyl tile you can easily replace it with a new vinyl tile. Be sure to buy a few extra tiles so you have extra vinyl floor tiles for this purpose.

Floor Covering Option #2

Tile floors is popular floor covering choice. Tile floors are difficult to put down and expensive. However, tile floors last forever and are easy to clean. This floor covering option is best in the kitchen and bathroom areas of your home. However, many homes in hot areas such as Florida and Arizona have tile floor covering throughout.

Floor Covering Option #3

Hardwood floors is a beautiful floor covering option. Many people love hardwood floors as their floor covering option because they are both beautiful and easy to clean. There are many different hardwood floor covering options including various finishes and also different types of wood. A hardwood floor covering option that has gained popularity in the last few years are bamboo floors.

Floor Covering Option #4

Carpeting is hands-down the most popular floor covering option. Many people have carpet floor covering in their home somewhere. In my home, I have carpet in my bedrooms and in the upstairs living area. Carpeting is easy to care for, and the carpet floor covering options are limitless. In the past it was hard to put down floor covering such as carpeting without hiring a professional. Now, there are carpet floor covering tiles that make laying carpet an easy do it yourself task.

Floor Covering Option #5

Stained concrete floors are a flooring option used in many modern homes. When I was shopping for a home, I visited a condo that had acid-washed concrete floors as the floor covering of choice. This floor covering choice looks best in a condo or loft that was a refurbished factory or other older refurbished building. This floor covering has a very contemporary and modern feel to it. Concrete floor covering is best implemented when you build your home. It may not be possible to add stained concrete floor covering to your home, so seek the help of a home decorating professional.

Floor covering options are limitless. Between the five floor covering options I have shared with you, you can derive literally thousands of possible combinations in your home.