What flooring is best for your custom waterfront home? There are plenty of options!
Designing a waterfront home comes with plenty of decisions. First, you’ll choose a location and then a custom home plan. When it’s time to build, you’ll start with the fundamentals: structure, roof, walls, and flooring. Choosing the right flooring for your waterfront home requires taking weather, water, mud, and sand into the equation. Will it be able to stand the temperature changes, humidity, and debris year after year? Here’s a quick guide to what the best flooring may be for waterfront homes.
Engineered Wood
If you are longing to have hardwood floors but don’t want to risk the warping due to humidity, engineered wood is your closest alternative to the real thing. It consists of multiple layers of solid wood with a solid wood finish on the top, giving each plank a density that is more resistant to puddles, humidity, and temperature changes.
Laminate
Laminate is similar, but not the same as engineered wood. Instead of a wood veneer on the top, it has a photorealistic image with a thin plastic coating overtop to protect against wear and tear. Laminate wood could possibly be even more water-resistant.
Vinyl
Vinyl flooring does not consist of any wood, but PVC plastic, although it can easily look like real hardwood. It proves stellar in durability and excellent in style. It continues to grow in popularity for waterfront homes and other homes alike. One will likely see the names “luxury vinyl tile,” “luxury vinyl plank,” or “luxury vinyl” in your search for options.
Tile
Porcelain and ceramic are two popular options for tiling. The options for color, pattern, and cut are practically endless. They are popular in kitchens and bathrooms for a reason, as they are almost entirely water-resistant, but they could make your floors cold in the winter. Nevertheless, tile is a fantastic option for the kitchen, bath, and ground floor as well.
Carpeting
Can you have carpeting in a waterfront home? Absolutely! Of course, you will want to keep it away from wet areas, such as the entryway. Plush carpeting can be an especially luxurious touch for the bedrooms.
Hardwood
The question remains: can you have real hardwood flooring? Yes! However, one should talk with their custom waterfront home builder for a deeper look into this question.
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