Interior Design Tips: Complete Your Look With Vinyl Floors
Vinyl floors, also known as linoleum, are an elegant and economical way to cover floors in any home. It is also convenient and easy to clean, which is ideal if you have pets or small children running around.
Why vinyl?
Vinyl floors, available in various styles and colors, can be adapted to almost any interior design, which means that you can be sure that your floor will perfectly complement your living environment. Choose from a wide range of effects that include marble, slate, granite, wood and tile. If your home requires perfection, you can get it perfectly with a vinyl floor and also know how to cut vinyl flooring.
Vinyl floors are also becoming more popular because they are worth the money. Unlike other flooring options, such as natural wood floors and stone tiles, vinyl has a price that will leave you a design budget to play later.
If you like to enjoy the light at home, and then choose vinyl floors, you can adapt your floors economically and conveniently, with a minimum of inconvenience and inconvenience. Vinyl is easily cut with a regular handmade knife, unlike tiles and wooden floors, which require a bit more experience. Some glue can be used to fix the floor in place. In addition, you can use the money saved on low-cost vinyl floors to hire someone to do the work for you.
Interior Flooring and Décor Tips that Will Transform Any Small Space
This also makes for a wonderful opportunity to provide you with plenty of interior design considerations, so that you can pick and choose your favorites and create a truly unique look. Without further ado, let’s take a look at the five interior flooring and décor tips that will transform any and every small space.
It All Starts With the Flooring
Let’s start with the foundation, the floors. The flooring option you choose in every room will significantly alter its look and feel, so all the more reason to choose carefully. Needless to say, there’s not much you’ll be able to achieve with the perfect flooring solution if you’ve chosen décor elements that hinder the flexibility and maneuverability in the room. But we’ll get to that in a moment.
Right now, there are a few key things you need to focus on when it comes to choosing floors for spaciousness:
- Subdued color schemes look great, and they help create a more intimate ambiance. But they can also make a small space look and feel even smaller. This is why you should choose light airy colors for your floors, something like off-white hues the likes of ivory and cream to give the room an uplifting vibe.
- Here’s another simple trick to make a room feel bigger: put laminate, vinyl, or wooden planks parallel to the length of the room. This will make the room feel even longer, and thus a little bit bigger.
- Not satisfied? Don’t worry, here’s another trick: gloss finishes. Choose a flooring option that boasts a mild glossy finish, which will reflect light and make the room feel that much more capacious, open, and vibrant.
Create continuity between your outside space and indoor space to make your rooms seem bigger
If you have patio doors or bi-fold doors flooring is instrumental in ensuring continuity between your garden and your interior. Use decking outside and wooden boards inside and ensure they point in the same direction. Even when the doors are closed, having similar flooring on your patio and your living room will help give the sense of the space being “projected” through the glass and make the inside space feel much larger. Even if different materials are used or different colours, the alignment of the boards will help create a sense of flow.
Use Vinyl (or even grass!) To Bring the Outdoors In
Strategically placing plants inside the home is the obvious way to bring the outdoors indoors, but you can enhance this further with your flooring. Vinyl flooring inside the home, which has elements of the great outdoors can help create a seamless flow between outdoors and indoors. The Grass range from Harvey Maria brings the lawn into the home and the design is actually inspired by the grass at Kew Gardens, so be assured it won’t be any old lawn you are introducing into your home!
Vinyl Living Room Floor Designs
- Printed Vinyl: This type of vinyl flooring is comprised of backing material, a print layer, and a wear layer that rests over the top. The backing provides stability for the piece, while the print layer can be imbued with nearly any image, pattern, or color combination imaginable. This allows you to simulate the look of natural wood, and stone, use emblem pieces, get creative with designs or even turn your floor into a living mural beneath your feet.
- Solid, and Composite Vinyl: Unlike printed vinyl which has separate and distinct layers, these surface coverings are manufactured in a process that produces a single, congruous material all the way through. Because they are not printed the design options in a living room are somewhat limited. However, the constituent consistency ensures that even as the material wears, the colors will not fade as they run true, all the way through.
- Vinyl Flooring Color Considerations: Make sure that the color and pattern of the floor that you choose will match with the existing styles of design and architecture which are found inherently in the living room. On the one hand, this should be relatively easy, as there are hundreds of different colors and patterns to choose from. However, this can also overwhelm you, in which case the assistance of a design professional may be required.
- Textural Enhancements: One of the classic drawbacks to vinyl is the fact that it feels flat, manufactured, and plastic. However, there are various textural treatments which can be applied to the material when it is produced, to give it a dimensional feel. This can include the slightly raised clefting of stone, or a more grained feel, simulating natural wood. You can also have random textural patterns that can add a depth of decorative beauty to the installation.
luxury vinyl flooring and home resale value
The resale value of luxury vinyl flooring is simply not as good as it should be. It’s the victim of being a newer flooring that hasn’t completely caught on yet, and I think currently laminate has better resale value in most markets.
Many people hear the word “vinyl” and assume you’re talking about sheet vinyl, which is considered one of or the cheapest types of flooring. It’s clear that many people don’t know the difference between the two (which is a big difference) because many real estate sites and systems only allow for “vinyl,” not allow you to specify luxury vs sheet.
With this in mind, ultimately people care about look, durability, and prestige when it comes to buying a home and flooring. Luxury vinyl tiles meet the first two criteria, it just needs to shake the negative reputation of sheet vinyl.
When this happens, I think luxury vinyl tile will jump laminate but still be behind hardwood in terms of desirability.