Cork Flooring Guide

Modern building materials allow us to transform our homes into our ideal representation of our personality and style. Almost everything that passes by your mind can have a correspondent in real life: window coverings, wall finishes, flooring solutions. Speaking of flooring, more and more young couples choose cork flooring as the perfect solution for their home. Here are a few reasons why cork makes such a great choice:

• Young couples dream to have babies, or they already have a baby or two. By the age the toddler starts crawling, the floor becomes extremely important, because the baby would spend a lot of time on it. Cork is warm and soft, it is the perfect surface to get in touch with the delicate skin of a baby who crawls. It would attenuate the hit if the baby falls down, so it’s safer than hardwood or ceramic flooring.
• How nice it feels to walk barefoot? Beneficial to our health, walking barefoot is not possible on cold surfaces. Cork is warm, so you can forget about slippers inside your house even if you don’t have in-floor heating.
• If you had the chance to design and build your own house, maybe you liked it to have irregular shapes. This looks great, but it can mean a great problem for floor specialists. Some flooring types will prove to be difficult in getting cut in irregular shapes, so you may end up with ugly finishes which you’ll hate. For such grand designs and big projects, cork flooring is the best solution: cork can be cut easily in any shape you like, and it is beautiful and elegant.
• Of course, if you don’t have enough money, you can go for linoleum or carpeting, but they have several drawbacks: linoleum is ugly and old fashioned and carpeting will get dirty and fill up with dust and will require more thorough maintenance than other flooring variants. Cork is easy to clean.

Whatever your choice may be, when choosing floors for your home, make sure you seek for advice from the floor manufacturers, because they have well-trained staff, ready to answer all your questions and to help and guide you in your purchase and even after that.

Don’t forget to plan everything before you actually start working and buying the building supplies. If your cork flooring doesn’t match the walls and the window treatments, or the furniture, you may end up in a house that’s ugly, with no defined style, expressing only your incapacity of getting your creativity unleashed and your personality revealed. Usually, this should be the task of an interior designer, but with this crisis we are crossing these days, you may not want to spend your money on things that you can do by yourself with a little bit of skills and good will. It’s your choice!