Paragon Flooring

When you want to renovate your home but lack a huge budget, consider updating your flooring. For many homeowners, replacing the flooring provides a straightforward and cost-effective choice that updates the appearance and feel of the entire house. This option provides a healthy return on investment when you sell your home and offers something you can enjoy while you reside there.

Read this blog before contacting a contractor to get the most out of your initial meeting and obtain an accurate quote. These seven tips provide important background information that can help you pick the right floor coverings. Despite what some home sales websites say, you don’t have to use the same flooring throughout your entire home. That would get boring fast, but these seven tips prepare a homeowner to choose up to three flooring types that work well together.

1. Apply “The Rule of Three” to Home Flooring

Apply “The Rule of Three” to your whole home flooring plan for a cohesive and comfortable aesthetic, according to HomelyVille, an online renovation publication. This rule says you should use three flooring types at maximum throughout the whole home. For example, you might use hardwood in public areas of the house, except the kitchen and bathroom, where you use vinyl linoleum. In the sunroom or Florida room, use mosaic tile.

2. Work With the Existing Decor 

Unless your project includes renovating your whole home, ensure that your flooring types and colors work with the existing decor. For example, if your home features colonial-style furnishings, then ultra-modern black ceramic tile would clash. Conversely, a home filled with Mid-Century Modern furniture would clash with white-washed oak floors.

3. Match Architectural Styles and Elements

Match the flooring with the architectural style of the home. The flooring for a contemporary home differs from the flooring that looks good in Victorian homes. Look at the design elements present in each room. Aztec design throw rugs combined with shag carpeting won’t complement a living room with ornate black crown molding and arched windows.

4. Consider Room Size

Small rooms should only use one flooring type and color. Save mixing tiles and hardwood for a large room. Use a light color of flooring in a small room to make it seem larger. When planning a kitchen, choose a flooring color that’s lighter than the walls, cabinets, and ceiling. In bedrooms, flooring that’s the same or lighter color than the walls gives it a more open feeling.

5. Reference a Color Wheel

Use a color wheel to build a unified color scheme, so flooring choices don’t clash. When you mix tiles and hardwood or throw rugs and hardwood flooring, using a color wheel can help develop a theme using complementary colors that carry through the whole room – floor, walls, ceiling, furniture, etc. A color wheel makes it easier to choose tile colors when creating mosaics and matching tiles with bright hardwoods, such as cedar.

6. Match Wood Undertones

When it comes to mixing hardwood flooring, consider the undertones of the wood. Hardwood has either a blue/gray, red, or yellow undertone. To create an aesthetically pleasing floor with light and dark hardwood, use two hardwoods with the same undertone. For example, white ash and red oak can work well together, but the yellow undertone in some white ash would not work well with cherry.

7. Consider a Room’s Purpose

The use of a room – its purpose – matters, too. For example, hardwood floors offer superb flooring material in the living room or dining room but they can’t stand up to the moisture in bathrooms and kitchens. Vinyl laminate flooring provides a waterproof alternative to use in kitchens and bathrooms that comes in many designs, including those that look like hardwood flooring. Pick hardy, durable options for areas with heavy foot traffic, such as foyers, kitchens, and mud rooms.

Contact Us for a Flooring Consultation

At Paragon Flooring, we’ve served the Shreveport-Bossier-Haughton area since 2019 with quality products at a good value. Visit our showroom and warehouse at 1010 Bellevue Road, Haughton, LA, to explore flooring choices, including carpet, tile, stone, hardwood, vinyl planks, laminate, quartz, and granite.  

We don’t just sell flooring; we install it, too. Contact us today to schedule a flooring consultation. Once you choose your flooring, we’ll schedule your installation.