Unit 2 Floor Treatments
Floor Treatments
Ethical Floor Coverings - Now more than ever, it's easy for the average homeowner to make environmentally friendly choices when it comes to home flooring products.
Floor Tile - A decorators dream come true, ceramic floor tiles offer timeless beauty and durability. Travertine tile is also another flooring option becoming more and more popular this year.
Terracotta Tiles
Handmade terracotta tiles exhibit a buttle variety of shade and colour, but need sealing to keep them clean.
Ceramic Tiles
Ceramic tiles provide a durable and waterproof floor surface for bathrooms and kitchens
Mosaic Tiles
Mosaic tiles are once regaining the popularity they enjoyed in times past, but laying them is definitely a labour of love.
Other Floor Treatments
Carpet
The most practical home flooring, carpet brings color and warmth into every room. Endless patterns, colors and textures still make carpet the number one selling floor covering today.
Plain-or almost plain -carpets are the key to simple yet sophisticated colour schemes. Neutral tones, here softly textured with a twist pile, can be off-set with the subtlest of colour contrast.
Sheet Vinyl Flooring
Sheet vinyl flooring is ideal for kitchens with its easy-to-clean surface. The cushioned types also offer extra warmth and softness underfoot.
Offering the look of stone, ceramic tiles and hardwood - sheet vinyl and vinyl tiles are a natural solution for today's homeowner looking for quality and design.
Bamboo Floors - An environmentally friendly hardwood, bamboo is fast becoming one of the most popular flooring trends.
The Benefits Of Bamboo Flooring Are:
· Same design appeal as hardwood flooring
· Harder than Oak and Rock Maple
· Durable
· Environmentally friendly
· Installation - same as hardwood floors.
· Bamboo is the fastest-growing plant on earth, bamboo offers 25 times the yield of hardwood
Linoleum - The original environmentally friendly floor covering, linoleum is available in a wide selection of colors and patterns, suitable for any decorating solution.
· Linoleum flooring is made from natural materials like linseed oil, recycled wood flour, cork dust and limestone.
· naturally anti-bacterial and biodegradable.
· one of the best choices for a "green" floor for your home!
Laminate Flooring - Originally from Europe, laminate floors have taken over the floor covering market with the practical benefits of being durable, hard wearing, and beautiful. Laminates are replicating stone, and granite for endless decorating possibilities.
Area Rugs
These versatile splashes of color ground a room, giving it personality and function. This year, luxurious shag rugs are a big hit with decorators.
Hardwood Floors
Today's hardwood floors are adding old world elegance with a new twist, moving more toward distressed planks, wider widths, and the introduction of exotic woods.
There are several styles and finishes to choose from.
FiberFloor is definitely the flooring choice for 2008. Easy to install, no gluing required. Moving? Just pick it up and take it with you.
Cork Flooring
Comfortable to walk on, incredibly warm underfoot, discover the beauty of cork floors.
· Cork is environmentally-friendly.
· Cork floors are health friendly - hypoallergenic.
§ Cork floors have a natural, random appearance that creates elegant look.
§ Cork flooring enhances virtually any room style and decor.
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