Bristol, UK - How to Choose your Flooring

Choosing the right floor for your newly decorated room to ensure it gives you the result you are looking for visually as well as being practical and long-lasting can be difficult. Our Interior Design - How to Choose your Flooring and our flooring experts will help you make the right decision and ensure you love your newly decorated room.

Explanation of Colour

Using light and dark colours for walls, ceilings and floors can make a room look completely different; bigger, longer, shorter, wider, narrower, warmer, cooler, relaxing, vibrant, the options are endless. Patterns, textures and lighting will also have an effect so its good to know the basics to help you with your decision.

Start by looking at the shape of your room to decide if you are happy with it or if you want to create an illusion, as an example, if you have a really long, narrow hallway that you want to feel wider than it is, paint the walls and ceiling in a light colour, have a lighter colour floor and paint the back wall in a darker colour.

Next, think how you want the room to feel when you walk in; do you want it to be calm and relaxing, cool and vibrant and on-trend as these decisions will help you decide on your decor and the flooring you choose.

Lighter hues of colours will make a room feel larger and darker hues will make a room feel smaller and generally warmer depending on the tone of colour you choose. If you have a smaller living room that they want to feel bigger then use lighter colours on the walls, ceiling and or floor and bring in the colours you like into your furnishings and or soft furnishings. If you have a really large room with high ceilings that you want to feel smaller and warmer, you can use darker shades on the walls and, or flooring to help create this feeling.

Contrasting colour will have a really dramatic effect in a room; light colour walls and flooring combined with darker furniture and accents of colour will ensure your room feels bigger but still has the warmth from the furniture and the soft furnishing colours.

You should also think about the natural light that enters your room when you are deciding on wall colours and flooring.

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Floor Patterns

It’s important to think about the laying pattern of wooden flooring or tiles as it will have a huge effect on the look, feel, size and style of your space.

A staggered laid floor is when the tiles or planks are laid on alternating sides of a centerline. This is a great option if you have 2 or 3-floor colour variations.

Diagonally laid flooring is an offset pattern set on a 45-degree angle for either tiles or wooden flooring. A diagonal layout adds dimension to space, a unique perspective and acts as a feature.

Herringbone laid floor is a classic flooring pattern which resembles fish scales, hence the name and offers a level of sophistication to your design and decor.

A weave flooring pattern which is also known as basketweave offers several woven-style variations which is suitable for rectangular tiles, creating movement within a square or defined space.

Corridor style is a variation of the grid flooring pattern and the traditional grid pattern offsets the intervening rows.

Flemish Bond is a pattern made from alternating rectangle and square tiles and is perfect for 1 or 2-floor colour variations.

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