Designing with Luxury Flooring

Resilient Flooring Room by Room Designing with Luxury Flooring

For centuries, the most beautiful floors in the world have begun with nature’s patterns, colors, and textures. The skilled hands of artisans have shaped and refined them into beveled stone, tightly mortared tile, and softly oiled or highly-finished wood surfaces.

New technologies and visionary designs offer traditional wood, stone, and tile looks in residual flooring — beautifully realistic, affordable, durable, and environmentally friendly.

The power of resilient to restyle an individual room or an entire home is a triumph of advanced technology and artistic imagination.

Designers today are celebrating individuality. The exciting news is that resilient is especially customizable. It can be installed in numerous patterns — including herringbone, basket-weave, or diagonal. Trim pieces can complement a floor design. A medallion can add a dramatic focal point, mixing with other design materials. Contrasting borders can define spaces or accentuate any room or hallway. Entire resilient staircase systems, from traditional to avant-garde, invite you to customize and integrate floor designs.

Because design should begin and end with creativity and personal vision, feel free to start with the words, “Just imagine…. ”

Resilient will take care of the rest.

Novafloor’s Serenbe Collection Cottage Pine Char from Novalis

Don’t worry, the high shine, almost plastic look of older resilient is a relic of the past.

Today’s resilient floorings offer a full range of finishes and looks embossed and printed with such clarity that they look and feel like their source materials of stone, wood, or tile. Think of the difference between older formats of resilient with today’s resilient as the difference between stenciling and precision, highresolution digital imaging. Modern resilients have a texturized finish, some with an embossed or groovelike look that seems so real, not even reaching down and touching it dispels that impression. Some resilients are manufactured with actual textures, typically in stone and tile fashions. ■

At left: Renewal in Mesa Verde from Engineered Floors Below left: Knight Tile from Karndean DesignFlooring in Urban Spotted Gum. Below; Lunar Marble Willa from the Maybree collection by Novalis. Bottom: Mannington Luxury Sheet Vinyl from the Revive Collection shown here is Filigree in color Iron.