New Wood Flooring Trends: Texture and Design
You’ve thought about the type of flooring you want and even narrowed down your options to a few specific colours, but have you thought about the texture or design elements of your floors?Texture can dramatically change the look of your flooring and add character by giving it a unique look. Depending on the type of texture you choose, you can create an old world feel, a warm rustic look, a handcrafted appearance and more. Keep in mind that with textured floors, different levels of light can create different looks in your home as well.Here are a few texture and design trends in wood flooring that Mohawk Flooring is seeing right now:
Texture
Light Wire Brush TexturesWire brushing is a technique that gives floors a more dynamic look and is achieved by brushing hard-bristled wire against wood planks to pull out the softer wood and emphasize the grain patterns. This rustic look is popular and a good medium between hand scraped and smooth surfaced flooring. Lately, the wire brush trend has had a lighter touch, looking more like a gently weathered floor rather than a heavily brushed and texturized floor.
Band Sawn TexturesFollowing the trend of rustic and handcrafted looks, band sawn texture is on the rise. Think cuts and marks that give flooring the imperfect appearance of being handcrafted. This type of texture is ideal for anyone who loves the reclaimed wood look.
Large KnotsChip and Joanna Gaines are not going anywhere, and neither is the rustic farmhouse look they’ve made extremely popular. Longer and wider wood flooring planks have been popular for a while, and now so are larger knots. Knots form when branches from a living tree die, and the living wood grain grows around them, creating a unique look full of character. The larger the knot, the more character your floors have.