Flooring Types

Browse our materials guide to find the right carpeting and flooring for your home. Living rooms, bedrooms, kitchens, bathrooms, basements, and entryways all have unique flooring needs: wet spaces versus dry spaces, high-traffic versus low-traffic, subflooring differences, insulation needs.

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Guide to Types of Thresholds

Thresholds play a small, but important, role in your home. Make sure you choose the right one with the help of our expert guide!

What is the Best Carpet to Buy for My Home?

Compare different carpet costs and materials to find the best option for your home.

How to Choose Cheap Hardwood Flooring

If you thought the beautiful, warm look of easy-care hardwood flooring wasn't in your budget, these low-cost options might change your mind.

Refinishing Hardwood Floors

Learn how to restore and refinish hardwood floors in your home with these home improvement tips from the pros.

Cork Flooring: Comfortable and Earth-Friendly

On the hunt for a flooring material that's attractive, easy underfoot, and not harmful to the environment? Cork flooring could be the perfect choice for you. Here's what you need to know before you decide.

Parquet Flooring: Artistry in Wood

Michelangelo transformed a ceiling into something enduring and magnificent to behold overhead, but today's flooring manufacturers use parquet flooring to convey their creative spirit underfoot. Here's what you need to know about parquet flooring -- this artistic expression in wood.

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Stained Concrete Flooring Basics

With their earthen hues, seamless appearance, and distinctive textures, stained concrete floors appealingly anchor looks from casual to classic. Here are a few things to consider about concrete floors for your abode.

Cheap Flooring

You don't have to break the bank to enjoy good-looking floors. These 10 affordable flooring materials let you lay fashionable foundations for comfortable living in a wide array of design styles.

Flooring Basics: Solid Hardwood and Engineered Wood Flooring

Wood floors contribute pleasing substance underfoot, sweep-clean ease, and first-rate foundations that ground all types of decorating styles. Here are a few of the things you need to know before shopping for wood floors.

Bamboo Flooring Basics

Looking for something a little exotic and a whole lot earth-friendly? You'll find those qualities and more when you opt for eco-friendly bamboo flooring. Here is a closer look at bamboo flooring, its attributes, and ideas for its use.

Laminate Wood Flooring

Laminate wood flooring fashionably fuses fool-the-eye forms and durable construction to create arresting, affordable substitutes for more expensive hardwood, tile, and stone floors. Here's a closer look at wood laminate flooring and the benefits it brings to all kinds applications.

Ultimate Guide to Laminate Flooring

Laminate is an easy-care flooring option that cleans up quickly, and it's a hardy material for busy areas. And with new production technologies, laminate looks on par with its wood and stone flooring counterparts.

Laminate flooring gives you the look of wood or stone, but without the cost and maintenance. See our favorite laminate floors, with manufacturer information included.

Eco-Friendly Flooring Picks

Check out these beautiful and durable flooring materials that are eco-friendly too. Manufacturer information is included.

Living Room Flooring Ideas

Your floor covering can be the star of the show or an understated background.

Learn the Basics of Flooring

Each type of flooring has its pros and cons, so consider these tips and how the space will be used when deciding on the right floor for your space.

Flooring Picks: Linoleum and Vinyl Flooring

Kitchens and baths require heavy-duty floors. These vinyl and linoleum flooring options can handle the challenge with style. Manufacturer information included.

Ultimate Guide to Tile and Stone Flooring

Ceramic tile and natural stone are timeless flooring choices that bring a touch of class and easy care to the home. Consider our decorating and shopping advice to enhance your rooms with tile.

Environmentally Friendly Flooring Options

What to consider when choosing more environmentally friendly flooring, including the new linoleum and renewable woods such as bamboo, cork, and eucalyptus.

Your Guide to Carpet

Learn about the different types of carpet available to help you choose the right kind for your floor.

Choosing and Buying Resilient Flooring

Buying Carpet

If you're buying carpet soon, see what our pros have to say about what types of carpet to buy. Let us help you find the perfect carpet flooring for your home.

A Guide to Flooring

When it's time to choose the right flooring for your remodeling project, know your options. Use this guide to find out what it will cost to cover your floor in style.

Your Guide to Wood Flooring

Hardwood floors are timeless and elegant, adding warmth and character to your home. To choose the right planks for your floor, weigh these considerations.

Your Guide to Tile Flooring

Ceramic, porcelain, terra-cotta, and concrete tile promise durability, easy maintenance, and long-lasting style. The array of colors, patterns, sizes, shapes, and textures means you can create a one-of-a-kind design to suit the look of any room.

Shopping for a Wood Floor

Although wood flooring is generally more expensive to buy and install than carpet or vinyl, it should last for decades. Here's your guide to wise shopping.

Rug Care

Rugs warm and add color, pattern, and texture to a room. You can easily change a room's look and feel from one season to another by replacing the rug. Follow these tips for cleaning various types of rugs.

Wood Basics for Kitchens & Baths

Branch out. Explore these wood products, tips, and design ideas for your kitchen and bath.

Wood Flooring Versus Engineered Wood

Engineered wood is an attractive alternative when wood is not an option.

Your Guide to Stone Flooring

Detailed mosaics exude grace. Rough-hewn, irregular pieces accentuate natural-style settings. No matter what shape or type you choose, stone offers a sense of permanence and character that surpasses any other flooring material.

What Goes with Wood Floors?

Wood floors are one of the most sought after surfaces in any home, thanks to their warmth and timeless appeal. When living with or decorating with wood floors, keep the following in mind.

What Goes with Beige Carpet?

Sometimes we have to live with a decor feature for longer than we want. Many people feel this way about their beige carpet. Since carpeting is a foundational feature that fills a room, beige carpet can give a dull, heavy feeling that overwhelms your space. How can you work with this limitation and move your home away from beige?

What Goes with Dark Floors?

Dark floors: Some people love them, some people hate them. But what if you are a light floor lover who is living in a home filled with dark floors, without the option to change them? Here are four ways to decorate dark floors, whether you love them or not.

Flooring Types

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Guide to Types of Thresholds

What is the Best Carpet to Buy for My Home?

How to Choose Cheap Hardwood Flooring

Refinishing Hardwood Floors

Cork Flooring: Comfortable and Earth-Friendly

Parquet Flooring: Artistry in Wood

More Flooring Types

Stained Concrete Flooring Basics

Cheap Flooring

Flooring Basics: Solid Hardwood and Engineered Wood Flooring

Bamboo Flooring Basics

Laminate Wood Flooring

Ultimate Guide to Laminate Flooring

Flooring Picks: Engineered and Laminate Flooring

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