Marble-clad floors and walls make for glamorous luxury bathrooms. Marble is very hardwearing and versatile, but is also very porous so will need sealing. Check with your supplier.
Wooden living room flooring
Beautiful, renewable and recyclable, wood has a natural warmth that looks particularly good in large open-plan living rooms where it has the space to shine. Whether you expose existing floorboards or lay a new engineered or solid floor, wood needs little maintentance. Just sweep regularly with a soft brush or
vacuum and mop over once a week (wring out the
mop well before using).
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Chequerboard porcelain bathroom tiles
Classic black and white chequered floors will never go out of style. Create this chequerboard pattern with white and black porcelain bathroom tiles. Lay them on the diagonal for added interest.
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Wood parquet kitchen flooring
Classic kitchen wooden parquet flooring with its crisp, neat geometric pattern is a thing of beauty. A waxed parquet floor will need to be cleaned and rewaxed once a year; a varnished version can go much longer without requiring maintenance. Alternatively, look for vinyl or laminate designs that imitate the real thing without the work.
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Terracotta tiled kitchen flooring
Create a traditional farmhouse look with terracotta tiles. Tough and hardwearing, they are favourites for kitchens and utility rooms and add a rustic warmth to a decorating scheme of whitewashed walls and mix-and-match dining chairs.
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Ceramic tile kitchen flooring
Ceramic tiles come in all shapes, sizes, colours and textures. Beautiful floor tiles border the island unit in this classic kitchen, producing an effect not unlike a patterned rug on the wooden floor.
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Vinyl bathroom floor tiles
These vinyl tiles with raised dots are wipe-clean and easy to fit and a warmer flooring solution than stone. Vinyl tiles are super-practical when you don't want to gut your bathroom completely.
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Porcelain tile bathroom flooring
A cheaper alternative to stone, porcelain tiles are easy to maintain and come in a wide range of colours and finishes. You can buy packs of tiles in bulk and you won't need to worry about sealing after grouting in the way that you do with stone.
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Walnut flooring in modern hallway
Engineered wood flooring in rich walnut adds warmth to any room, but looks particularly fabulous in this modern hallway. Perfect if you have underfloor heating...
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