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Wednesday 5 November 2008

What kind of floor do you like in your home?

Are you a wood floor person, or ceramic tile, porcelain tile, or do you like to go carpet all the way? Think hard before you change you home flooring. Look at all the options and characteristics of each available type of flooring.

Think about things like, do your feet get cold easy, are you on a slab foundation or have a basement. Do you have dogs or cats or both? Having children should even play a roll in deciding on the type of floors you choose.

If you have pets, you might want to consider doing without carpet, real wood floors or linoleum. The dog’s nails will leave marks on the real wood, while cats are notorious for scratching on carpet and linoleum. Dogs too love to chew on carpet. Birds will scatter lots of seed, water and fruits between the bars of their cages and onto the floor. If you have carpet, you can’t easily get the food products out of the carpet.

Children tend to spill drinks more, so carpet might not be the way to go. Not to say that we as adults don’t spill things, but children seem to spill more.

Linoleum is more old school, but more and more, the manufacturers are creating more beautiful patterns to make you think you have more expensive type flooring.

Ceramic tile tends to chip and crack when something heavy is dropped on it. Porcelain is a good bit more durable and comes in some really neat patterns. Sizes range from 1” to 36” tiles.

So really put some thought into what you want to walk on and to see in your home when it comes time to change flooring.

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