living room and bedroom flooring

Living room space flooring and bedroom flooring are largely a matter of choice and personal taste, and of how much you're willing to spend or of how much you want to invest in terms of installation or maintenance.

Wood (including laminated wood and engineered wood) is perhaps, the best and commonest living and bedroom flooring option, but there are many other options, dependent on choice and personal criteria.

Living areas & Carpet flooring

Carpet flooring is a good option to get warmth and intimacy, and it's available in a wide set of styles and costs. Carpet flooring is great for rooms – bedrooms, living areas - where people like to be barefoot.

But carpet has some important disadvantages: it isn’t easy to maintain (it gathers dust too quickly) and it isn’t very durable and healthy (carpet is an especially bad option for asthmatic people). Besides, it also poses environmental reserves (see on this issue: Recycled carpet flooring).

Due to all these reasons, carpet flooring is increasingly restricted to small and strategic areas in bedrooms and living areas, in association with other flooring (ceramic tile, stone, wood…).

Ceramic tile flooring

Ceramic tile offers an extreme variety of designs: you may create either an imaginative and exotic floor or a sober one… But the greatest advantage of ceramic tile flooring is moderate or even low prices combined with durable and easy-to-maintain features.

In cold or even temperate climates, many people consider ceramic and stone tile as too cold and too hard underfoot for a living room or a bedroom. To overcome these objections, consider using ceramic tile or stone flooring with carpet flooring or radiant heating (ceramic tile is the ideal solution for radiant heating floors).

Bedrooms, Living rooms & Wood flooring

Wood flooring offers warmness and a superior and natural look in living rooms and bedrooms. Besides, an adequate wood flooring is also stain-resistant, easy-to-clean and a durable choice (woods can be sanded and refinished several times in their life).

Anyway, wood flooring isn’t only hardwood (oak, maple, birch…) and softwood flooring (pine…). You have cheaper alternatives, more resistant to water and problems as contraction, with some environmental advantages… and also some possible drawbacks. These other options are laminated woods and engineered woods.

See on these issues:

Laminate flooring vs. Hardwood flooring
Engineered flooring vs. Hardwood flooring
Carpet vs. wood flooring

Combining different floorings

Instead of using just one type of flooring in your living room or in your bedrooms, you may combine wood, carpet and ceramic tile flooring...