Nine ways in

Choose the Room

Each room page connects the way the space is used to the finishes we would recommend, the materials we would rule out, and completed work in that kind of room.

Kitchen

The floor around a sink and dishwasher takes more standing water than any other room in the house. The finish either shrugs it off or swells at the seams.

Bathroom

A bathroom sees more moisture, hour for hour, than any other room in the house. The finish either sheds it or holds onto it.

Basement

A basement floor fights moisture coming up through the slab even when there is no visible leak, and that's the fact the finish has to be chosen around.

Home Office

West- or south-facing office windows put glare on a screen most afternoons. That is what the window covering has to solve, not just brightness.

Living Room

The living room floor carries the heaviest daily traffic in the house, usually along the same worn path. That is what the finish has to be rated for.

Bedroom

A bedroom floor is judged first by how it feels underfoot at 6am, which is a comfort problem before it is a durability one.

Kids’ Room

Spills, crayon and hours of play on the floor are the normal week in a kid’s room, not the exception the finish has to plan for.

Stairs & Hallways

Every trip through the house crosses a hallway or a staircase: the highest cumulative traffic in the home, and the one place a slip does real damage.

Renovated commercial office and retail interior

Office & Retail

A retail or office floor takes continuous public foot traffic on a schedule a home floor never sees. The finish has to be rated for that difference.

Room first, finish second

A Better Way to Narrow the Options

Choose the room and the problems it has to handle.

See which materials fit that use, and which ones do not.

Move into the catalogue already focused on suitable finishes.

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