Living Room Flooring Ideas

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The floor is the basis of a room, which has an important role to strengthen the existence of objects that are in space. Floor function in general are: to support the activities in space and shape the character of the room. When people walk on the floor, then the characters that appear are: durable, non-slip and neutral color. Floor of the house used to put items such as chairs, tables, cabinets, etc., and supports various activities such as walking, kids running, sitting on the floor, and others.
In terms of structure, the load received by the floor sometimes quite large, for example when we move heavy objects like cabinets by dragging. Thus the floor has an important role to support the loads directly from the goods and activity on it.

In terms of aesthetics, the floor serves to beautify the space and shape the character of the room. The theme colors and images displayed can take whatever appropriate concept code that is raised. Some of the themes that can be applied like traditional ethnic, modern minimalist, retro and so forth.

Terms of flooring material, each room in the shelter vary it for different floor design. Terms of flooring materials include: a safe, durable, strong, moisture-resistant, easy to clean and absorb heat. Floor covering material that is warm is carpet, parquet, cork, rubber, while the material is cold is marble, ceramic, granite.

Floor material size
The size of the floor material, especially marble, granite, ceramics and terrazzo / tiles, will affect the impression of space. If the room is small or narrow, for example bedrooms and bathrooms, the size of the material select small ones anyway to give the impression of the room. As for the room is spacious living room, family room, large sized materials will help to balance the impression of vast space.

Type of flooring material
Here are some types of flooring materials with different characteristics for consideration of applications in your living room.

- Plaster
This type of material classified as the simplest and least expensive, because it is treated as when plastering until smooth.
 
- Ceramics
Type of material is very commonly used. Ceramic has a high flexibility of use and can be applied to almost all parts of the house. In addition to strong home floor of ceramic material also does not require polishing and easy to maintain.

- Marble
Marble is preferred because it has a lot of character and a classy luxury. Texture and pattern of irregular and limited natural supply makes this material. Marble material has a cold and strong impression. Marble drawback is having relatively large pores. Marble is porous relatively large requires extra care.

- Granite
Granite has pores are tighter, so it has less likely to enter the water and dirt. Granite has a cool and memorable impression of sturdiness. Granitic rocks derived from granite hill or mountain.

- Wood
Wood materials has the impression of a warm and natural. In addition to coming from solid wood, parquet materials today comes from non-wood materials such as bamboo. The other type is a laminate which is processed wood surface is the result of printing.

· Stone
Natural stone materials are also often used as flooring materials include stone slabs. Normally than on the floor, many are also used in the garden or pinned against a wall, and the wall on the interior of the house.