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Use Your Floor To Enhance Your Décor
By Lee Dobbins, Fri Dec 9th
Your flooring is a vital part of your decorating scheme. You want your floor to blend into your rooms decor and enhanceit, not detract from it so you need to put in a flooring that isappropriate to the style of the room. If you have a shabby chicstyle room, you’ll want soft flooring such as wall to wall in amatching color or oriental style area rugs over hard wood floors– nothing too harsh or sharp in the pattern. A modern or retrostyle might go great with a bold splashy area rug. Acontemporary style might look good with a simple rug over hardwood floors. When selecting flooring, pick out a color and pattern that goeswith the colors of your furniture, wall coverings and windowtreatments. In certain designs, a complimentary color looks niceon the floor, but you don’t really want it to stand out too muchso something that blends is usually best. If you can, take homesamples and put them up next to the walls and furniture to seehow it might look. Don’t
skimp on your flooring budget – cheap flooring won’t lastlong and won’t look as good. In the long run buying qualityflooring will save you since it will last longer. You may beable to save a bit if you install it yourself, however, this canactually end up costing you more as you may use more materialsthan a professional and it might end up not looking nearly asgood! You’ve spent a lot on the flooring materials so it doesn’tmake sense to ruin the floor with a cheap install!One way to insure you never get bored with your flooring is tochoose a neutral tile or hardwood floor and decorate with accentrugs. You can change the rugs out per season, or when you getbored with the others and you don’t have to worry if one getsstained as they are easy to replace.
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