What is the best flooring for bedrooms?

Bedrooms are among the most important rooms in the home. It’s where you start your day in the morning, and end it at night. A safe place of comfort and sanctuary. Which is why it’s crucial to create a style that resonates with you personally when choosing the best flooring for your bedroom.

What is the best flooring for bedrooms?

Is it better to have hard surface flooring or carpets in your bedroom?

Carpets are a common choice for bedrooms as they are soft underfoot, retain warmth, and pets tend to like sleeping on them. However, hard surface alternatives are both optimal and increasing in popularity for bedrooms. One reason for this is that carpets retain dust, odours, and allergens more, so they require harder cleaning on a more frequent basis. Another reason for this is the easier maintenance of a hard surface floor, the more natural look of the products, and that hard surface floors tend to be higher-end and more luxurious. Especially if they are real woods or patterned.

Laminate flooring in bedrooms

Laminate flooring is a cost-friendly flooring solution that can be manufactured to simulate real wood or tiles. While laminate won’t hide dust or dirt as well as a carpet, it is far less of a hassle to clean or maintain. Regular sweeping will keep it in top shape, and if there are any stains they should be cleaned up quickly with damp cloth and quickly dried. But overall, it is generally easier to clean laminate floors than carpets.

For an enthusiastic DIY’er, laminate flooring will prove easier to install than carpet. A lot of laminate floors are manufactured with click systems nowadays. 

A downside of laminate flooring is that it is not as warm underfoot, and in cold rooms may not retain heat. There is also an increased risk of noise underfoot. However, there is a solution for all of this! Proper underlay. There are many underlays available on the market both with the purpose of retaining heat and reducing noise underfoot, so you don’t have to compromise on aesthetic style for these minor things.

Vinyl flooring in bedrooms

Vinyl is a great alternative flooring solution to bedrooms. A hardwearing, durable floor that has the added benefit of being fully waterproof, so if there are any spills, you need not worry about damaging the floor.

And as an added benefit above laminate flooring, Vinyl floors are warmer underfoot, and nowadays a lot have built-in underlay to save you a few pounds per square meter of flooring. Having said that, if you want a special type of underlay like a heat retaining one, there are plenty of vinyl options available that do not have built-in underlay for that added versatility. 

There are two types: normal LVT, and SPC (or Rigid Core Vinyl), which is made from limestone powder and resin. Essentially leveraging the strength of stone for a more durable board. Both do the same thing, and have easy maintenance as well as modern click systems for easier installation. The Timba Floor Aquacore Collection are all Rigid Core Vinyl SPC floors.

Real wood flooring in bedrooms

Real wood flooring, such as our 5G Engineered Oak Collection, can offer largely similar merits as both vinyl and laminate. The choice here would depend upon the individual, and how much one values having higher-end, luxurious furnishings in their bedroom. Real wood flooring is unmatched in its aesthetic because, being a natural product, each board and each pattern of the wood is unique to the tree and plank. Unlike laminate and vinyl, which use high resolution images to simulate the effect of wood.

For any eco-conscious consumers, real wood provides the benefit that it is a natural, green, carbon storing material that is mostly recyclable (all of our wood floors are 94%-99% recyclable). There are also a huge range of colours available for real woods, from your natural lights and darks to keep with the authentic colours of the wood, to contemporary greys. With a variety of finishes such as oil or lacquer, you can choose between glossier looking wood floors and matt finishes. The variety is almost limitless.

Patterned flooring in bedrooms

This is purely an aesthetic, stylistic choice. Parquet floors are most common in the Herringbone and Chevron patterns. They can be fit in a bedroom just as in any other room. At Timba Floor, we sell Herringbone and Chevron floors in engineered real wood, and herringbone vinyl floors. More expensive due to the complexity of the installation, these floors are beautiful once laid and will surely turn eyes in any room. 

Summary

Hard surface floors are suitable for bedrooms because:

• They are easy to clean and maintain

• Can be fitted with noise reducing or heat retaining underlay

• Natural look

• Versatility with patterns and aesthetic