What are the latest trends in floor designs? We see a lot of people showing an affinity for design flooring like herringbone and basketweave, in colours that are created rather than natural.We have also launched brushed floors and floors with textures – they are becoming more and more popular as people don’t want plain glossy floors.People try to play it safe when it comes to flooring in houses. But, how experimental can they be with colours and patterns for their houses? Flooring is the most underplayed and under-thoughtabout product that goes into interiors. People are now slowly understanding the importance of flooring in interiors and how they can dress it to make a statement for their houses. Today other than the 10-12 natural wood available we have a plethora of created colours like coffee, cognac, Tuscany, wenge, greys, and whites and designs that you can make – like borders, herringbones and the likes which are now available to dress your flooring. Today discerning customers have a lot of choice.If a person is looking for making their space look bigger, what kind of flooring works best? In rooms that are traditionally small or don’t have a lot of lighting, flooring can easily be used to make the space look bigger. You use lighter woods like maple, oak, beech and so on to make the room look bigger, and it is always better to use planks rather than strips in these rooms.The bigger the strips, the larger or roomier the rooms look.Most people go for vitrified tiles for the sake of convenience and even style. But the style is becoming monotonous now. Are there any innovations in vitrified tiles? Vitrified tiles are not what stylish builders give primarily – from a cost perspective.These are non designer and generally come in ivory to white colours. Wooden flooring today comes with a lot of innovations. With the advent of technology most products come with a click system, edges are treated with silicon to make them moisture proof, there are anti scratch lacquers available for natural hardwood flooring.There are more than 100 options available in laminated, engineered and solidwood flooring which can dress up your floor.Though wooden floors are becoming increasingly popular, they need a lot of maintenance and can easily be damaged by improper care. Any tips on how to deal with that? The biggest myth that prevails today is that wooden flooring is difficult to maintain.If you buy a good branded product and the correct grade for homes/ offices etc, it has similar maintenance to tiles. The flooring is in fact a locking system and if there is a problem it can easily be replaced which is not possible in tiles. Laminate flooring requires no maintenance, and like tiles they are a-onetime- use product. They do not need any sort of care.With hardwood flooring, regular, dry and damp mopping is needed and with the new lacquers, brushed surface and so on, you do not have scratching. In case of a scratch, single planks can be changed and once the floor is 10 years old, the floor can be re-sanded and re-finished as well.
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