Home Style Decorating

Hardwood, exotic imported woods, stone and porcelain are the hottest materials in flooring today. One of the most popular of the wood flooring material is the bamboo because it is very durable and the prices are low compared with oak and maple. For regular hardwood floors, many people now want wider planks than the traditional 2- or 2-1/2-inch-wide planks. There are also varying the widths of the planks to get an irregular, casual look.

Bamboo is environmentally friendly and is often grown just for flooring and furniture purposes. It comes in planks just like regular hardwood. It fits with an Asian style of furniture, which is popular now, or with the Tommy Bahama look. There is also bamboo that is made to look distressed, for a more casual appearance.

Some other exotic woods now gaining in popularity include kempas which is a reddish wood that looks much like mahogany, as well as two South American woods, the Santos mahogany and cumaru. Kempas has a beautiful grain and is less expensive than mahogany.

The ‘green” quality of bamboo is a theme that is fast becoming popular as with the natural flooring products like cork flooring, wool carpeting and linoleum. People want to be environmentally conscious. Cork is a bark of a tree and harvesting the material does not kill the tree. Cork is used in the kitchens, laundry rooms and dens. It comes in a wide variety of styles and colors like regular cork color, brown, red, light green, dark green, blue and even silver. There is a company that will custom-color cork. You can have a lot of fun with it.

Natural stone, travertine, limestone and porcelain floors continue to be very popular. High-end customers usually go with natural stone. A definite trend is to have the limestone or travertine honed to give it a matte finish, which is especially practical for nonslip bathroom floors. People want larger floor tiles even up to 16 or 24 inches square.

Yanchi Engineered Bamboo Flooring: Glueless Lock System for easy floating installation. Klumpp Aluminum Oxide finish with a top layer of 3 mm A grade bamboo. Three ply construction with cross-ply wood core for stability. 25-Year Residential / 10 Year Commercial Finish Warranty.

White Pepper Brushed Granite Tile: The brushed finish gives this tile a worn-down feel simulating a natural wear and tear look. This softens the tile slightly and looks perfectly at home in older properties. 600.00 x 400.00 cm.

Nature Stone® Floor Covering: Nature Stone® has a superior insulation rating (R-value). Produces the highest quality topcoat and has integrated it into the floor covering system for maximum performance and customer satisfaction. Integrates with overall design of your home.

Blue Magic Tumbled Marble Tile by Mandarin stone: Its worn finish and intricate veining will add authentic interest to you home or garden. Best for high traffic areas. Comes in a variety of sizes.

Leonora Limestone Flooring Tiles: This creamy white limestone with shell content movement looks great in high contemporary as well as in English traditional settings .Each limestone flooring tile is only 15mm in thickness and is available in 60cm x 40cm and 40cm x 40cm.

Jerusalem Cream Stone Flooring Tiles: A lovely cream coloured stone with slight marble veining makes this a great choice for both contemporary and traditional settings. The Jerusalem Cream stone flooring tiles are available in 60cm x 40 cm,40cm x 40cm and random flagstone flagstone pattern in tile sizes of 60cm x 40cm ,40cm x 40cm and 40cm x 20cm.

Antique Old English Cream Limestone Flooring Tiles: This distressed English limestone is Antiqued in our own workshops to give an authentic aged look with its softened edges and polished footworn surface.Sizes 50cm gauged width and random lengths up to 90cm.

Torino Italian Porcelain Tiles - Tuscany Series: orino produces a broad range of premium quality, strikingly beautiful porcelain tiles at the best prices, available in colors to suit any taste. Made in Italy, PEI 5 wear rating, frost proof, water absorption - 0.04%.

Double Loading Polished Porcelain Tile by Guanyu Ceramics: Double loading polished porcelain tile with over 200mu fine powder makes it shiny. Marble-like surface makes it as natural and shining as marble but requires less maintenance.

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