Best Hardwood Floors

Engineered wood flooring is entering its prime. While originally designed as a lower cost – and often lower quality – alternative to solid wood floors, engineered wood floors now have virtually all the advantages of solid wood. You can’t tell them apart, in fact – unlike laminate floors, engineered floors really are made of wood. However, unlike solid wood floors, engineered floors are made of layers of wood material. The top layer gives the floor its authentic wood appearance.

Affordability is an obvious advantage, but even apart from the issue of cost, this really is the perfect flooring for our day and age. People today value natural building materials, and engineered flooring is made of natural wood. Just like a solid wood floor, an engineered floor will give your home a simple, classic look. And, as forests worldwide are dwindling, engineered flooring will become preferable over solid wood. It protects forests by using small, otherwise unusable fragments of wood.

Because of the improvements in floor finishes, today’s engineered floors are just as durable as solid wood or laminate floors. A urethane coating protects the floor’s wood grain and repels water. Your floor will last for many years with very minimal maintenance. Because this is a wooden floor, its color and texture are completely authentic. Real wood, no matter what kind it may be, has a look that never goes out of style.