Christmas is prime time when it comes to cleaning. Your friends and family coming over means you have a lot more foot traffic than normal, which could mean disaster for your flooring. Glitter from Christmas decorations, dirty shoes and possibly even snow are all culprits for creating an unclean floor in your home.
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Engineered Wood Flooring Styles
Engineered wood flooring is a great alternative to real wood flooring, in terms of both price and practicality. In addition, engineered wood can offer more variety in styles and colours.
Landing Renovation: Karen from The White Approach
If a job’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. That’s exactly why we’re proud to share this stunning transformation, thanks to Karen from popular interiors blog, The White Approach. We spoke to Karen about her ideas for her landing renovation, and the difference it has made to her home.
Wide or Narrow Wood Flooring?
Amongst the huge range of designs, colours and composition available in wood flooring, plank width is yet another consideration when on the hunt for a new floor. Alongside standard plank width, you can go for a narrow plank or wide plank, depending on your preference.
But which should you choose?
Working with Channel 4’s “Bang on Budget”
If you’re a lover of daytime television, you may have flicked over to see Channel 4’s Bang on Budget at one point or another. The show focuses on home renovation, creating stunning homes on a tight budget. Naturally, this seemed like the perfect fit for Direct Wood Flooring. So, we got to work in helping presenters Lucy Alexander and Harry Hoffen make the transformation happen.
Engineered Wood or Laminate Flooring?
When it comes to choosing your new flooring, we’re well past the days of limited options. Roll back the years, and you’d only have different species of solid wood to choose from.
As technology has advanced, so has the composition of wood flooring. Furthermore, so has the variety of choice. Two popular, modern alternatives to solid wood are laminate and engineered wood flooring. But what’s the difference, and how do you choose between the two?
Tongue and Groove vs Click Wood Flooring
In amongst different variations of wood species, composition and design, there is another factor that those looking for a new Wood Flooring to consider; fitting mechanisms. Generally speaking, there are three main choices that fall into this category: tongue and groove, click, and solid blocks. As solid blocks are fairly self-explanatory, we’re going to put the spotlight on the remaining two. It’s tongue and groove versus click – who comes out on top?
Top Three Pinterest Picks of the Month
Here at Direct Wood Flooring, we’ve been digging deep into what our customers love. Many of you will keep up-to-date on our Pinterest profile, where we share ideas, industry-leading inspiration and, of course, useful blogs. Furthermore, we’ve decided to share with you, the must-have flooring ranges from the past month as chosen by our followers. Here’s our top Pinterest picks for July.
Introducing Our New Marylebone Engineered Wood Flooring
Here at Direct Wood Flooring, we take pride in our ability to bring you the highest quality wood flooring products at unbeatable prices. This is a commitment that shines through in our brand new Marylebone range of Engineered Wood Flooring.
Introducing Our New Versailles Parquet Tiles
When it comes to wood flooring, you don’t get more beautiful than our brand new range of Engineered Wood Flooring. Looking to instill a timeless elegance, worthy of one of the world’s most famous palaces? Look no further than our new range of Smoked Oak Versailles Parquet Tiles.