5 Important tips to be considered when choosing your home floor
Floor is one of the most important elements of your home, and without a professional choice, you may lose a large part of the luxurious design of your home
Designing your home requires you to carefully choose all its elements, while studying each step to get the desired result and achieve all your dreams. Floor is one of the most important elements of your home, and without a professional choice, you may lose a large part of the luxurious design of your home. Therefore, Aqarmap offers you 5 tips when choosing your home floor, which may help you find what you are looking for.
Set your budget
Before taking any steps concerning your design or choosing a new floor, you should first set your budget to avoid any underestimation of your abilities, which may disrupt work. The prices of floor materials vary and range from marble, granite, vinyl, parquet, porcelain, ceramic and tile flooring. Recently, epoxy and concrete floors have appeared. Also, alternatives such as ceramic parquet have also emerged to allow you to choose the suitable floor in terms of your budget and of your home as well.
You may find marble and granite more expensive than others, while tiles and ceramics are at the end of the list, but the Egyptian market is characterized by affording different grades for each type to meet the budgets of different customers.
Do not forget to add the cost of installation, as some of these floors may be expensive in installation, such as parquet or epoxy.
Specify the use of each space and what suits it
Each space has specific uses, from which to specify what it needs from raw materials or finishing. For example, your bedroom won’t need the usual or required luxury in the salon, and your children’s room may need a safer floor than your bedroom, so you must specify the use of each space to determine the right floor. The floor can also obscure the design flaws, such as space constraints or lack of sufficient light, which leads to choose a light reflective floor to help spread of light.
Life expectancy
How long do you expect the floor of your home to remain? When do you intend to renovate your home again? These questions may completely exclude certain types of flooring, such as porcelain or epoxy due to their short life expectancy compared to wood floors or tiles.
The life expectancy of a tile, for example, varies between 10 to 15 years, or longer, while wooden floors vary between 5 to 6 years. Vinyl has a lifespan of only 4 to 5 years, while marble can remain up to 25 years.
Are you always looking for something new? if so don’t pay too much on a floor that you might change after 5 to 10 years.
Required style
Each style has a decorative floor that suits it the most. For example, marble or granite suits the classical style. In some countries they may go for wooden floors. Moreover, retro style prefer to use tiles or concrete floors.
Harmony between design elements
Flooring, walls, furniture and lighting, all of these elements must be in harmony with each other in order to give a good image of your design, therefore, you must study your design and plan how to implement it well in order to succeed in choosing all the elements appropriately.
Finally, look carefully
One mistake in choosing and installing the suitable floor may spoil its beauty and corrupt your choice as well, therefore, before you finally decide to choose a specific floor, you should look carefully for everything related to this floor, and how to clean it in order to keep it in good condition.