It is difficult to name a newest material for finishing the floor than laminate. He immediately became one of the most commonly used for independent decoration of the floor when repairing apartments. He fell in love with the fact that the installation is simplified by the fact that the castle of spike-groove helps to create a monolithic coating without gaps and drops in height.
The color spectrum for floor laminate is quite wide - from white to dark brown and black.
The first types of laminate had one significant disadvantage - they were afraid of moisture, from direct contact, even with a small amount of water, the appearance of PVC coverage lost its appeal. Now the floor can be covered with this wood material in almost all rooms of the apartment. The increased stability of certain types of laminate to water is achieved by a special selection of resins in the panel and to cover the laminating layer.
Most often on sale you can find a panel with a pattern that imitating natural wood, as in mind and by texture. The rough surface reduces the possibility of falling on the wet floor. A drawing of a tree gives the room with warmth and coziness. True, it is not always possible to choose the perfect color of the flooring under the design of the room due to mixing colors and styles in the interior of its general design.
Due to the set of shades of the laminate and the same panel size, the possibility of creating a combined coating appears.
Laminate selection tips for combined sex
Creating flooring in the living room and bedroom from two shades of wood must comply with several rules.
- It is better to use one shade out of the cold color gamut, and the other of the warm. Such a selection of colors in the coating will allow not only profitable to emphasize the current interior of the room. In the next cosmetic repair, the selection of the color of the walls will no longer depend on the color of the laminate.
- For a room with dark cabinet furniture, a better use of muffled, but not very light tones will be laminate. For example, the gray fake is perfectly harmonized with a beige tint. When using the ocher, the gray shade is better to replace the brown.
- Not bad gray shade in the floor covering is combined with a brighter almost white tone. But here the color of the floor dictates some limitations in choosing the color of furniture and wallpaper for walls.
- The presence of one of the two elements of the floor of the dark brown with the right selection of the second shade is an excellent addition to the interior in any color scheme. When using the combination of this color of the floor in the white bedroom, the second color must match the interior of the room. If in the main elements of the decoration there is a varnish shine or gloss, it is better to choose a pure white material. The bedroom in matte colors will seem more warm if the second element of the floor will have a shade of cream, ivory or fuel milk.
- The use of two contrast tones to the floor covering is an exception, and not a rule. The effect of dominoes on the floor requires a certain selection of tones in the interior, which is difficult to do without an invitation of the designer. In the selection of two laminate colors it is better to take a wooden chessboard design.
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If you do not think about the next repair, then you can use for floor covering and other types of laminate - green, blue, bright yellow.
Selection of laminate tones for bathroom, kitchen, corridor
Choosing an outdoor coating for an entrance hall, a sanitary assembly and a metering, the first requirement is the increased moisture resistance of the laminating layer. In places where water can get to the coating, it is necessary to use moisture-proof laminate. It is no less widely selected, moreover, it is possible to choose the necessary coloring to any tone of the walls and the ceiling.
The walls embroidered with PVC panels are easily harmonized with most shades of wood, but more bright tones can be used for small rooms.
The turquoise walls will suit the saturated blue color of the floor. You can use the alternation of yellow and blue panels in a checker order. So a small bathroom will look solar - very bright. Black floor perfectly seats white walls, but in a square bathroom room, this option is visually further narrows the space.
For the kitchen, the choice of light laminate tones is not too appropriate due to the fact that the floor during cooking can spill something or fall. Fruit or vegetable juice can, even with immediate cleaning, paint the surface of light laminate. To cover the place of cooking and dining area, you can use laminate of two different colors.
Immediately at the slab and the cutting table, it is better to use a dark-cherry, saturated brown laminate, the floor of the food zone can be postponed by several tones lighter or darker table headset.
Laminate for corridor
Not only the theater begins with hangers. The first impression is the guests getting, crossing the threshold of an unfamiliar house. So, the hallway must be exemplary not only in order, but also for design. Quite often, you can meet in the design of the panels materials imitating natural wood, brick, natural stone. It is fairly inappropriate with such a wall design to leave the oil paint-covered floor or laying a linoleum with a carpet pattern.
It is not difficult to choose the laminate to the walls, but it will create an effect of a closed space resembling an elevator. People suffering from claustrophobia, in this interior will be extremely uncomfortable.
For the walls covered with panels from the floor to the ceiling, it is necessary to choose the floor covering just darker than the walls themselves, and laying the laminate from the wall where the front door is located.
In a small square room, the hallway is best to avoid on the semi-clear lines. There are two options to avoid it - use laminate with a pattern under a natural stone or make a two-color floor with a panel switch in neighboring rows per 1/3 panel.
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