What Kind of Floor Matches Your Design Style?

If you are in the market for new floors, now is the time to achieve and enhance the interior design style you’ve been dreaming about. Whether you prefer a more formal room scene, a relaxed décor scheme, or a hip, inspired layout, your floors will anchor your vision with specific visuals, textures, finishes, and characteristics. By unifying your design style from the floor up, your rooms will capture your preferences and personality to perfection. Here are 5 common design styles and the floors that help bring each respective theme to the forefront:

Flooring for Modern Design

For a household with sleek minimalism, modern design will focus on clean lines, simple shapes, and functionality with purpose and proportion. Heavy use of monochromatic materials and neutrals including black, white, gray, dark brown, and beige will install order and calm. Modern design reduces clutter with few colors and uses pops of nature to bring in color. Within the solid shades, explore using texture to add visual interest.

Muted hardwood floors in white, gray, and dark-stained tones such as oak, birch, or maple will fit modern homes flawlessly. In confined areas, lighter, subtle wood shades will open and brighten modern spaces. Dramatic, dark hues will produce bold room scenes full of presence. Stone and tile floors that mimic expensive striated marbles and granites offer tremendous modern luxury. Consider laminate and luxury vinyl floors that can mimic concrete visuals and cool monochromatic stone and tile floors for more affordable solutions.

Flooring for Rustic Farmhouse Design

A relaxing rustic farmhouse room scene should feature a connection to the great outdoors with an emphasis on natural materials. Hardwood and natural stone floors, as well as realistic laminate and luxury vinyl floors, should showcase graining, texture, and organic markings for this theme. Consider longer, wider plank sizes that will showcase more of these prized characteristics.

Reclaimed looks with distinct distressing, saw marks, and bold texture will deliver prime rustic style. Airy wood tones with brushed texture, mixed-shade hardwood, bleached hardwood, and smoked hardwood visuals can also provide rustic chic appeal. Complete with area rugs that feature classic rural patterns, motifs, and visual depictions to add extra softness and warmth.

Flooring for Coastal Chic Design

Coastal interior design uses natural light to dazzling effect, so airy, lighter hardwood, laminate, or luxury vinyl planks are the perfect floors to reflect sun rays and brighten the home. We recommend a matte finish or subtle wire-brushed texture to emphasize an open, relaxed feel. Medium-toned distressed and weathered planks with high character knots and graining increase the natural appeal.

Light-colored, large-format tile and stone floors are also a great way to craft coastal luxury. Explore creative installation patterns like chevron, herringbone, or diagonal stripe to add more interest, while classic patterned tile and tile mosaics will offer engaging coastal flair as well. Woven jute rugs harken back to nautical ropes and different coastal motifs like waves, sunsets, anchors, shells, or relaxing slogans also lend the right breezy vibe.

Flooring for Traditional Design

We love traditional interior design for its elegance and time-honored touches that lend comfort and formality, a space you can be proud of! In addition to materials like marble and aged brass, and soft textiles like silk, linen, and velvet, your floors will contribute to the clean, sophisticated feel. Gorgeous wood floors will highlight decades of natural beauty, along with today’s laminate and luxury vinyl floors for versatile performance.

Popular honey hardwood tones are perfect for bringing warmth into the room, while lighter wood and grey-toned floors can lend a modern touch to a traditional design. French Oak floors and wood visuals that show differentiation and shade variation between planks are a great fit. Stone looks also provide luxurious tones, veining, and textures in traditional room scenes. Use patterned, textured, and woven area rugs, or classic Persian and Oriental designs, to bring in soft, heirloom appeal.

Flooring for Bohemian Design

When you choose Bohemian design, you can go for almost any feel from relaxed to tropical, natural to eclectic! Consider rich colors, mixed patterns, standout textures, natural materials, vintage pieces, earthy tones, soft neutrals, and pops of jewel tones. Cozy blankets and lush plants will instantly boost a comfortable environment. No matter how you showcase your personality, just look for balance and complementary colors to bring the room together.

For your floors, lived-in appeal is the way to go. Weathered hardwood visuals will be a great starting point, and lighter to medium stone visuals will work incredibly well also. Vintage tile patterns make for excellent Bohemian floors and remember that your entire floorplan does not need to match in every room. Layered, plush rugs with plenty of warm tones, funky motifs, and exotic patterns will bring in unique personality and creativity.

After you’ve reviewed the flooring characteristics to match your preferred design style, it’s time to get flooring samples to compare inside your home when finalizing a selection. Take pictures of your spaces and bring them to the flooring experts in one of our ten locations for product suggestions that will produce your ideal layout.