Flooring....check!!

My flooring has been selected and deposit paid. Although I still have a couple of months before I need my flooring, its one of those things I just wanted to get out of the way so I can move onto other decisions. So many decision lol. My local carpet store had a great sale on so I decided to take advantage of what they had on offer.

The flooring budget was tight, as with everything. Although I'd love to have fancy hardwoods throughout, my budget just doesn’t allow for that and therefore I decided on laminate wood-look planks. A lot of my family have it in their homes and have nothing but praise for it. Its hard wearing and no maintenance required.

I wasn’t 100% sure what type of laminate I would go for as there are hundreds of options, long boards, short boards, wide boards, beveled edges, flush edges, gloss, matt etc. I guess I was just looking for something that looked like real timber floors to me, and hoping to find something that would draw me in and I would just 'know'. I liked the idea of the longer boards, but really had no idea of colours as I like both light and dark timbers.

My local store had a great longboard product which was on sale called 'Titan Longboards', it has a gloss finish, but not high gloss and a small beveled edge. There were a bunch of colours but I was straight away drawn to ‘spotted gum’. They laid it out on the floor on top of the real ‘spotted gum’ timber and you could not tell the difference. It looked just like the real thing, I'm not making this up.

Then we wondered over to the carpet section. I was planning for the master bedroom and one of the minor bedrooms to have carpet. The third bedroom would have the laminate. I didn’t realise there were so many different types of carpet, different styles, materials, finishes. I wanted a dark charcoal grey, and they had just the thing on sale for a great price. It’s not super plush but I was advised not to go that route and plush carpets wear a lot faster than the harder carpets. The dark colour is probably a bold choice, a lot of people advised me against it but I had to choose what I loved, otherwise I knew I'd regret it if I played the safe option. 

I've decided to install the laminate flooring myself (with some family help of course) this saved me a lot of money. It'll be a time consuming task, but I'm in no hurry so it doesn’t really matter how long it takes. 

Hopefully it will all look great once laid.