Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Wooden flooring for your home

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Having wooden flooring for your home is no longer impossible; since some of their materials are less expensive than hardwood flooring. Lot of people nowadays tend to use wooden flooring for their house because they create natural and simple performanc­e for your house; besides their material are easy to be cleaned and attached to the flooring.

Wooden flooring is suitable for both classical and modern houses. Besides, these materials suit to any types of furniture’s and interior designs, so when you applying the wooden material for your flooring you don’t have to worry about anything else; because they perfectly match to any types of theme for the houses. Wooden flooring can be applied for almost all of the house spots including kitchen, bedroom, living room, and even for the bathroom; this type of flowing will serve your multifunct­ion needs.

People in their old days usually used a hardwood for their flooring especially the red oak, but the problem is, their prices for the materials are too expensive, besides the materials are claimed as a non Eco-friendly. Maybe that is the main reason why people begin to use bamboo for the flooring instead of using the hardwood; they are less expensive and friendly to the environmen­t.

Hardwood flooring is basically presented in 3 main colors including light brown, dark brown, and red; While bamboo might have less colorful design such as dark and light brown. But basically both of the materials perform the similar atmosphere; sometimes they are hard to differenti­ate.

There are types of wooden flooring for your home such as solid, strip, plank, and parquet flooring. Besides those types of wooden flooring you might also prefer having engineered and acrylic-impregnate­d wooden flooring which will also present the similar sense. Each type of the wooden flooring is divided into numbers of thicknesse­s; some of them might only ½ inch but they are also available in 8 inch.

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