We select the laminate for the interior of the apartment

Laminate flooring is a laminated flooring made of wood-fiber plates, which has gained popularity due to the original styling options, as well as a variety of colors and textures. The original flooring has a high density and varying degrees of wear resistance. Laminated floor can create an imitation of any textures and patterns. In addition to aesthetic beauty, these products are of high quality, durability, environmental friendliness and safety for use in residential premises.

The choice of laminate is the possibility of individual and original interior design of the apartment.

For consumers, there is a wide choice among more than one hundred types of products.In general, coatings are divided into two main types: commercial and residential.

Commercial differ in the low price, and the term of operation exceeds a household type of a covering. Today, the consumer for an apartment chooses wear-resistant and durable coatings, such as for office use.

According to the degree of wear resistance, the following classes of products are known:

• 21-27 class - laminate, implying a low load, which perfectly tolerates furniture rearrangements and prolonged high humidity. Recommended for use at home. Service life - from 2 to 12 years.
• 31-32 classes - coverage with an average allowable load level. Office life is up to 5 years, in everyday life up to 15 years. It is the most optimal and popular option.
• Class 33 - laminate with an intense load, designed for rooms with high traffic, including shoes. Office life is up to 7 years, in everyday life up to 20 years.
• Class 34 - coating with high technical performance, designed for commercial flooring with a large load. Today, such products are increasingly used in the home, as their lifespan is not limited.

According to the type of connection, glue and lock fastening are distinguished. Glue is relatively inexpensive in price, but the installation of the castle cover is easier.

Depending on the style of the interior and the personal preferences of the apartment owner, products are chosen in the form of rectangular boards and square tiles. The flooring of the boards is convenient in a large room. When it became necessary to apply complex patterns on the flooring, the designers proposed a form of tiled artistic laminate. Square products are easy to install.

Beautiful and stylish appearance - the first landmark when choosing a flooring.

The texture of the upper layer distinguish the following surfaces:

• The standard surface is often found in the interior design of the apartment. On it are artificially created small grooves. A silky sheen will give naturalness to the coating.
• Natural surface type reflects the appearance of varnished wood. The patterns of wood of different species are clearly reflected on an even and smooth canvas.

• The textural surface is an imitation of wood texture with weakly appearing pores and wood fibers.By analogy with wood, there are products that repeat the texture of rough rough stone.
• The relief type of surface appears in the form of thin and smooth lines along the entire length of the board. Revealed relief, unlike the pattern of wood. Roughness slightly imitates wood surface.
• The type of surface in the style of rustic country coarse, with large relief.

• The artificially aged surface has a smooth relief imitating natural chips. The surface looks like wooden boards battered by rain and sun.
• Oiled wood is a type of coating that imitates wood impregnated with natural oils. The surface is flat and smooth, there are no pores on the matte plate.
• Waxed type repeats the surface of a massive board treated with wax.
• The glossy surface gives the floor a laminated look. This effect creates a wooden board, richly varnished.

A variety of product design makes it possible to choose the most liked laminate flooring. This is a “living” wooden classic, lamination for metal, exclusive designer products in the form of squares with a complex ornament.

Designers offer an original design of the surface under the skin of a crocodile or snake, having artificially created drawings with relief. The proposed creative will be interesting in the interior of the living room or study.

Frequently used laminate boards may have different sizes. For a guideline on the parameters, there are standard sizes of products, where the coating length varies in the most demanded format from 1.2 to 2 m. The length directly depends on the characteristics of production and operation of products, and indirectly depends on the design of the panels. When choosing a laminate, you should consider in which room the coating will be placed.

The width of the product is divided into several categories:

• 90-150 mm - the size of narrow boards made "under the parquet floor."
• 170-200 mm - the most common dimensions of the width of the panels.
• 250-320 mm - the size for the wide models imitating tiles or a natural stone.
• 350-400 mm - the largest dimensions of the width of products for a specific laminate.

Depending on the thickness, the product up to 7 mm is thin, in the range from 8 to 12 mm - medium, from 12 mm - thick.

Not only the quality of the product determines the laminate coatings, as well as the texture and color design. A variety of patterns and patterns will naturally decorate a room, while at the same time glossy and matte surfaces can influence the overall perception of space. The use of different colors of the finishing coating allows you to get interesting interior options, masking the identified deficiencies of the room. The psycho-emotional state of the household and the general favorable atmosphere in the apartment largely depend on the color.

The most popular type of flooring design for today are coverings for port oak:

• Dark natural oak is an imitation of oak board and is considered a classic floor covering.
• Bleached oak is diverse in interior design. The variety of modern colors makes coatings versatile in the interior design of any style. The white tone moves from the color of light gray and bleached oak to the aged, wiped effect. Such a laminate will uniquely transform the space of a room, visually making it more spacious.
• Honey laminate intertwines in itself colors from gold to rich chocolate, which will give the interior refinement and subtlety of taste.

• Fashionable black color laminate is used in cases when it is necessary to achieve graphic, effective supply of accessories in the furniture. Thin oak color is very popular, due to the exclusivity of this wood species.
• The product is gray in the interior - a neutral base for furniture and accessories.
• Multifaceted brown color in the interior is represented by shades of cappuccino, walnut, milk chocolate, suitable for most styles of interior design. As increases the room, and reduces it a little.
• Currently, there is an increase in the popularity of wenge colors. The surface in this color in the interior of the apartment is more inclined to the black shade and has an expressive pattern under the natural wood.

The most popular place in the apartment is the living room. Flooring in this room must meet the requirements for durability and strength, therefore, for such premises recommended coating 31 class.You can save time and money by choosing laminate panels to decorate the floor, walls and even the ceiling.

With the help of one element even the most boring interior is transformed. Having sheathed a dark laminate part of a wall or a column in the middle of a living room of a light white color, you can achieve an original contrast in the room. A pleasant accent will be the transition from a spectacular pavement to a ceiling or wall.

The bedroom and the nursery will suit the coating with decorative properties. An important point when choosing a laminate in the bedroom is considered compliance with environmental safety products. In the interior of bedrooms, the wall, being a continuation of the floor, will visually create an effect of infinity.

It will be interesting to look laminate panels, alternating different colors or shades of the same tone.

In the hallway, where there is also the highest maneuverability, products of high wear resistance class are used. This is due to the negative effects of dirt and dust. Laminate coating quickly loses an attractive appearance.

The color design of the wall and floor with laminate boards is contrasted. When the floor is covered with dark laminate, the walls should be light.

It will look like the updated interior, largely depends on the shape of the coatings.

The following points should be considered when placing laminate boards and tiles:

• Taste preferences of the hosts.
• The size and arrangement of the room.
• The degree of illumination of the room.
• The location of doorways, furniture and accessories.

In the design of the floors using the following methods of installation:

• Direct laying is the most popular way of laying, where laminate boards are placed parallel to the wall of the room. Installation is recommended to carry out the door, spreading in the direction of light.
• Perpendicular laying places the product boards perpendicular to the long wall. Such an installation option is rare, but it can visually expand narrow and low spaces.
• Deck installation contributes to material savings, since this method is waste-free during installation.
• Diagonal stacking is made diagonally, at an angle to one of the walls. This type of installation is recommended for zoning and expansion of room space.

• Figured styling, otherwise called "herringbone", creates an imitation of parquet. Using this method of laying products involves a special laminate and professional installation.
• Very popular laminate with a bevel. It resembles the floor, laid out of a powerful board.
• Chess stacking will look like brickwork.
• Chaotic installation method is quite original. It uses boards and tiles of contrasting colors and with various patterns.

A huge choice of color, texture and stylistic variants of the laminated coating allows you to fantasize with any interior.

When recreating the classic interior of the Victorian style or modern style, the choice is to stop on products made of natural wood. In this case, laminate skillfully imitates the parquet floor, filling the atmosphere with luxury and sophistication.

Natural materials, floral motifs, bright warm colors - all this harmoniously in a comfortable and beautiful Provence style. In such an interior, vintage furniture can best emphasize laminate in a trendy shade of bleached oak.

Laminate coatings are very popular in such modern styles as high-tech and gothic.

The color of gray oak in the laminate coating successfully shows the features of a contrasting high-tech style.

Black laminate or an exclusive shade of bog oak is the best option for massive, upright furniture, stained glass windows and stylish “lancet” arches, inherent in the style of Gothic.

Experts and designers recommend not to stop looking at monotonous coatings. For a more spectacular appearance and for the comfort of the household, different in color, texture and resistance class of the laminate surface are used. It is important to choose the right texture. It is necessary to consider the property of the material to wear in different rooms. The permeability in the common rooms will be much higher than, for example, in the children's room.

Making a choice in favor of the laminate, you must consider the rules of the game of colors. The floor should be 2-3 tones lighter than furniture. In small rooms, it is desirable not to use products of dark colors, otherwise there will be a visual reduction of the space of the room.

Coloring in brown-red, chocolate, cappuccino in the performance of a laminate coating will fill the room with an optimistic atmosphere.This color range is equally suitable for apartments and commercial premises.

Kitchen floor coverings are made in bright colors. Care for such a product is quite simple.

In order for the interior of the apartment to look aesthetically and carefully, it is necessary to take into account the combination of colors of interior doors and laminate.

Black laminate always looks advantageous with white doors. In such a color combination, white doors will emphasize the rich texture of the flooring. Also, this principle can be taken into account when creating a contrast with light wallpaper. In this combination there will be no limit to the imagination and design solutions. However, almost always on the dark laminate with natural light, the slightest specks are visible.

You can use laminate to divide small apartments and studio apartments into zones. Visually increase the size of such rooms is possible with a monochrome coating without thresholds and joints.

It is not recommended to cover the dark laminate in a darkly lit room with dark walls, otherwise you will get a closed and boring atmosphere. To balance the monochrome of the doors and the floor will allow a contrasting color plinth.

Tips for choosing the right product:

• If there is heavy furniture in vintage style in the room, then the choice is addressed to the material with the maximum thickness of the panel.
• The color of the laminate should be combined with the decoration and furniture in the room. Do not use completely dark and overly light accents on the floor.
• Laminate with a curved border is not recommended for laying in rooms where cleaning is not often.
• It should be borne in mind that the product located diagonally can visually expand the space. However, the consumption of the material itself in this situation increases.

Creating an interior in an apartment, you should consider the color design of the laminate and walls, as well as furniture and accessories. The color of the walls and floors should not be the same tone, especially dark colors. Otherwise, an objectionable “box effect” will be created.

Black color for flooring, walls are always relevant.Stylish laminate panels emphasize the excellent taste of the owner of such floors. A smooth transition to the white part of the wall will successfully decorate the aged laminate boards in gray on another part of the wall. Nothing extra furniture: a black leather sofa, illuminated by a designer floor lamp.

New-fashioned gray laminate is tolerant to all colors in the design of the walls. Orange wallpapers, for example, in the interior of the Art Nouveau style are combined with gray laminate panels. Dark gray skirting originally emphasized the contrast border between the colors. The color palette created in this way pleasantly pleases the eye with the softness of tones.

Inserts made of green wallpaper or painted walls in a light beige tone with areas of green in combination with a gray laminate will harmoniously fit into the interior in a minimalist style.

Beige laminate with a glossy sheen with walls that are lighter in tone will create an atmosphere of warmth and coziness inherent in Provence and Country music.

Many strips of laminate in different colors will look great in combination with purple walls. White sliding doors with access to the green garden emphasize the variety of shades of laminate boards. Fashionable purple furniture will complete the interior.

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