Advantages of hardwood flooring. Hardwood flooring where oak is used has really big choice of colours from light brown to dark one. You can choose the colour that suits the most to your rooms to your mind. Red oak or white oak to choose? Should it be solid or rustic? It is totally your choice, and if you are not sure which type of wood to choose, choose oak, and be sure, your house will look good. Oak looks very natural and modern at the same time, prices for oak floors are affordable for every family with every budget.

How much does it cost? Thanks to competitive pricing and large choice of oak hardwood flooring prices are cheaper as compare to other types of flooring. Prices start from 50 dollars depending on type of flooring. As compare to other types of wood, oak is cheaper than cherry and a bit more expensive that maple. Solid oak hardwood flooring starts from 50 dollars and upper, engineered oak hardwood flooring starts from 100 dollars. Well, what doest it mean engineered and solid?

Types of oak hardwood flooring. There are two types of flooring – engineered and solid. Engineered type is more expensive because they can be installed easily and is is called finished hardwood flooring. It is suitable for all floors almost and really easy to install it yourself. Another advantage of engineered floating hardwoods is that it is suitable for all types of weather. Depending of  the region of your living air humidity can be high or low or change in spring and autumn. All this affects wood. Have you even had a wooden wardrobe? Nothing will happen to your engineered oak hardwood floors. I think that it is a better investment. Yes, you pay twice higher but you are sure to use this type of floor for ages. It is you to decide which type to purchase, unfinished, prefinished or finished one.

I adore hardwood floor. It is some ideal type of flooring that looks so great that can be used without rugs. It is ideal choice for those who have durst allergy and can not have carpets at home. Wood keeps floors warm and cosy. How healthy it is and how much maintenance it requires i will also tell you in another article and now let’s check which type of wood to choose?

Maple hardwood flooring. Maple is one of the most popular types of hardwood flooring, everybody adores it’s light colour and natural view. Maybe it’s  colour maybe too light for rooms with high traffic, so think if you can afford yourself regular maintenance of it.

Ash hardwood flooring. Ash is one of the favourite types of wood for it’s strength but if you have a look at the pictures you may see that it’s colour suits mostly for wooden houses with wooden furniture designed in wooden style.

Pine  flooring. Pine wood becomes more and more popular for it’s nice look and easy maintenance. Though it is not really hardwood flooring already.

Birch  flooring. It is the same about birch. Though as well as pine it is a softwood, still it is used in flooring and is very popular for it’s view.

Bamboo flooring. though bamboo is a type of grass, it is considered to be one of the most strong flooring and this means that your floor will look nice and will need less maintenance that the other types and that is why bamboo is so popular in furniture also, not only flooring.

Fir flooring. Not everybody likes fir. It is up to you to decide to buy it or not. Cause according to customers reviews some people like it and so not, so if you are not sure it is better to look for maple and oak flooring.

Oak hardwood flooring probably is the most popular one. Why? It has a lot of colours to choose. You can decorate your house in any colours you want, dark light, any. It is affordable, looks very beautiful and strong as a type of wood. You will enjoy your flooring for years and it can be one of the best investments in your house.

Advantages of carpets. You can buy carpets for the whole house and it will look nice and comfortable. Big choice of carpets from the cheapest Berber carpeting up to the most expensive and luxury ones allows to find the most suitable carpet by colour and texture  for any house. If you can not find which colour or texture will suit your furniture, walls and so on, you can just buy some beige coloured carpet and be sure it looks nice and suits everything and every room, even kitchen and hall. Another advantage of carpets is that it gives some look of warmness and cosiness in the house. It is not only a look, there is a percentage of true: in winter house really stays warmer with carpets in all the rooms.

Disadvantages of carpets. The biggest disadvantage of so called wall to wall carpets is maintenance. Of course there are a lot of carpet cleaning companies who clean carpets well, but when it comes to do it yourself methods, you understand that it would be much easier to take rugs to the garden and just wash them there yourself. Another disadvantage is that if you buy one coloured rug for all the rooms, then when you change it in lets say living room then, you have to change all the carpets in the house or accept different colours in different rooms. Finding the same colour in 5 or 10 years maybe almost impossible.

Advantages of rugs. Main advantage of rugs is that they are easy portable. Are you renting a house? Or going to move soon? or move from time to time? There is no meaning then to buy carpets. Another situation is with rugs. You can easily roll them and move as much as you want. When you want to change decoration of one room you can buy new rugs also, it is not so expensive as to change the carpets. One more very important moment: our health. It is healthy to clean rugs and floors regularly, especially if you have baby or pets at home. Even some dust can lead to allergy and health problems. When you have carpets you can not wash floors. Carpets stock dust behind the furniture and in the corners. Vacuum cleaning is not enough and if you are not sure that you can clean carpets well, it is better to put some small rug in the middle of the room and weekly wash floors with detergents to be sure it is clean.

Disadvantages of rugs. Not everybody like rugs cause they slide and move and you need to put something heavy on it. Another bad side of rugs is that it can not hide bad colour of floors. There was situation in my house when tiles flooring of it was made by owner in blue colour. I did not want my house to be blue, and at the same time i had no opportunity to change colour of floors. So i had to buy carpets in all the rooms.

My opinion. If I have to choose ones again flooring for my house I will definitely choose rugs. Maintenance of rugs is easy and i can change them any time i want. Rugs are cheap. On another side i like my carpeting for its cosiness and comfort. In cold winter days I do not need slippers – every part in the house is covered by carpets. Really, difficult to decide. Think twice before you buy.