If you are in the market for flooring, take a good hard wonderful look at the world of laminate for your flooring material. The colors, designs and styles make it a very practical, functional and affordable choice today.
Today’s laminate is a wonder of science and art as it takes on a life of its own as a flooring product. Not only the look but also the texture of wood and stone are captured in a floor that’s easy to remodel with and tough enough to stand up to whatever today’s lifestyles have in store. New sizes and configurations ope up countless design possibilities for every budget. Its greatest benefit is the fleetingness… makeover simplicity. A room size laminate installation can be accomplished in a day or less and you can use your new floor that night!
Good relationships may take some time to catch on, but once they do, the sky’s the limit.
So it is now with laminate as it has matured and caught the eye of home and interior designers, architects and builders. The news about relationships with laminate is good and it continues to get better.
Improvements in photo imagery and textured effects and manufacturing techniques, like snap-together, glueless flooring, stain, fade, wear, impact and water resistant floors with pre-attached backings as well as tough-as-nails surfaces and warranties of up to 25 years to life, have made laminate a flooring category unto itself.
Laminate flooring made it to the US after gaining popularity in Europe, so if you’re like most homeowners who buy flooring every seven years or so, you may be looking at laminate for the first time. If you’ve looked at it before, today’s laminate has a whole different personality.
As an aside, a distant relative of laminate countertops, laminate flooring is comprised of multiple layers that make it very strong despite its thickness. The way laminate flooring is made makes it 20 times tougher than countertop material and, therefore, difficult to stain, scratch or scorch.
If you are in the market for flooring, take a good hard wonderful look at the world of laminate for your flooring material. The colors, designs and styles make it a very practical, functional and affordable choice today.
