Hardwood floors are popular in many homes and businesses around the country. It’s attractive, durable, long lasting, easy to maintain, and can provide both a luxurious or rustic look to your home or cabin. Installing hardwood floors is best left to professionals, as your subflooring can limit the possibilities you have for different wood types. When true hardwood won’t work in your home, there are a large number of engineered woods to consider. These engineered alternatives offer the same great look of real wood at a lower cost, and can be much more flexible in the areas they can be installed. As with all things in nature, wood flooring comes in an almost endless collection of shades, styles, hardness and more. Working with a professional design team can be a great way to decide on the right hardwood floors in San Antonio.
Rustic and Casual
While you can choose to limit wood flooring to one room in your home, some prefer the overall rustic look of a cabin or lodge. In this case, the flooring can be placed throughout the entire house in a uniform manner. Especially popular in dens, man caves, hunting lodges and forest cabins, distressed wide planked wood of various types can bring durability along with a rustic look. Easily matching almost any existing furniture styles you have within the home, distressed wood can also help lend its look to inspire you towards new design ideas.
Luxurious and Exotic
Exotic woods can include dozens of lesser known hardwood such as Acacia, Jatoba, Mahogany, Tigerwood, Brazilian Cherry and more. Often these woods are the mark of luxury since their costs can be much more than that of more common hardwood floors in San Antonio showrooms. Additionally, they may be in limited quantities due to the fact that many are farmed in commercial forests and can only be harvested after many years of growth. With this in mind, you can plan for a future installation of exotic hardwoods within your home.
Durable and Long Lasting
While most hardwood flooring is durable and long lasting, requiring very little maintenance for many years of service, you should always take into consideration the amount of abuse the floor may take before deciding on a species of wood and whether or not to go with natural wood or engineered woods. Pets and children can be hard on flooring, as can extremely high amounts of foot traffic daily. Ensuring you select the best durability for your personal needs will guarantee a great looking floor for many years.
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