When decorating our home, we usually consider laying tiles or wooden floors in the living room.
In fact, these two different approaches have their own advantages and disadvantages.
However, for different families, the choices are completely different.
Therefore, as to whether to choose to lay ceramic tiles or to lay wooden floors, you must understand some of your feelings after living before making a choice.
Laying ceramic tiles or laying wooden floors, I have experienced both of them, the feeling is really too real, I don’t want to complain! After reading
, will you choose to lay ceramic tiles or wooden floors?
How does it feel to have wooden floors in the living room?
Wooden flooring in the living room was quite popular in the past. A common practice is to lay wooden floors throughout the house.
However, the current stage of decoration has changed this situation, and it is more popular to pave ceramic tiles throughout the house.
So is it bad to have wooden floors in the living room? How does it feel to lay wooden floors?
The following four aspects are indeed what we need to clarify before choosing, because they are related to our future living experience.
1. Warmth
In fact, when we decorate our homes, we all want to achieve a very warm effect. In this regard, wooden floors are indeed very good.
means that it is easier to achieve a warm decoration effect by laying wooden floors in the living room than laying ceramic tiles.
I believe that many friends have a deep understanding of this.
When we enter a home with wooden floors in the living room, we will feel very comfortable and warm.
The reason why this happens mainly depends on the characteristics of the wooden floor itself:
1 and the characteristics of wood. Wood is originally a natural building material. It uses the natural grain of wood to make wooden floors. After being laid, it also has the characteristics of natural wood and is more warm.
2. The wooden floor feels very comfortable and not so cold. In fact, after comparing wooden floors and ceramic tiles, it is easy to feel this feeling. Like laying tiles in the hall will feel cold.
2. Good foot feel
Home decoration and floor decoration should also consider whether the foot feels good. In this regard, wooden floors are also very good.
I believe many friends have this experience, that is, they like to walk barefoot on the ground.
If our living room is paved with wooden floors, walking barefoot on it will indeed feel very comfortable. In fact, to put it bluntly, it feels good on your feet.
is undoubtedly far better than ceramic tiles.
Because of the characteristics of the wooden floor itself, it determines the comfortable foot feel of the wooden floor:
1. The softness of the wood is very good. No matter which wood we choose, its surface softness is far better than that of ceramic tiles. It is very comfortable to step on it with bare feet.
2. The surface temperature of the wooden floor is not particularly low. Even if you step barefoot on the wooden floor in winter, you won't feel particularly cold. Overall, the comfort level is very good.
3. Slight smell
Most wooden floors have a problem, that is, they have a slight smell.
Of course, this does not mean that environmental protection is not up to standard. It's the smell of the wood itself, or the smell caused by the installation.
Some friends can accept these flavors, while others cannot.
In addition, there is another situation, that is, if you choose a non-environmentally friendly wooden floor, there may be some unpleasant smell, which means that the pollutants exceed the standard.
In fact, these problems all depend on some characteristics of the wooden floor itself:
1. If the quality of the wooden floor is not up to standard, pollutants may exceed the standard. Because most wooden floors use a certain amount of glue, if the release amount exceeds the standard, it will indeed lead to excessive pollutants.
2. The wooden floor itself is made of wood, so it contains the characteristics of wood and has a slight smell. For example, it has some smell of wood.
3. During the installation process of wooden flooring, there may be some smell caused by wood cutting. This smell, which appears in many homes, is actually the smell of sawdust produced when cutting wooden floors.
4. It is not easy to take care of.
One thing that is very bad about the wooden floor in the living room is that it is not easy to take care of.
The home decoration in its implementation stage all pursues decoration that eliminates household chores, and mainly focuses on minimalist decoration style.
The purpose of these decorations is to better take care of our homes.
In this regard, wooden floors are indeed inferior to ceramic tiles.
Because wooden floors are used in the living room, the following problems will occur:
1. The surface of wooden floors is easy to get dirty, but it is not easy to wipe. Because there are a lot of activities in the living room, there may be fruit juice and vegetable juice dripping on the ground. If it drips on the floor, it will be difficult to wipe it up.
2. Wooden floors tend to peel and lift. This problem is particularly acute after the wooden floor is soaked in water or damp. For example, if water is sprinkled in our living room, the floor may peel and become warped over time.
3. The gaps in the wooden floor are particularly easy to turn black. A situation like this may gradually appear after one or two years of moving in. The reason is that there is dust in the gaps of the wooden floor, water enters, and eventually mold turns black.
How does it feel to lay tiles in the living room?
This is the second renovation of my home, and I changed it to tiles throughout the living room.
Because my main consideration is to take care of the living room floor after moving in.
For the ground, in many aspects, it is not the focus of consideration. And easy care is what I focus on.
After I replaced the wooden floor in the living room with ceramic tiles, I felt quite deeply.
1. Easy to take care of
After laying ceramic tiles throughout the living room, I felt very deeply that the floor was easy to take care of.
The living room is paved with large bricks of 800×800 mm. There is a 1mm gap between the bricks and the seams are processed.
After the decoration is completed, the entire living room floor seems to be integrated, very grand, clean and tidy.
These are actually not critical. The key thing is that after moving in, I felt more deeply:
1. The ground is very resistant to dirt and looks very clean and tidy. For example, the floor at my home is mopped basically once a week and is still very clean. Even if some juice or vegetable juice is spilled on the floor, it can be wiped clean with a dry paper towel.
2. No longer worry about mold and blackening of brick joints. Because the gaps between the tiles have been treated with beautiful seams, there is no problem of these tile gaps harboring dirt, mildew, and blackening.
3. No longer worry about a series of problems caused by water and moisture. This is also one of my biggest worries. Wooden floors always appeared in the past. After replacing the floor tiles, this problem never occurred again.
2. Durability
Whether we choose wooden floors or tiles, we must consider whether they are durable or not.
This is actually the key to our choice of floor paving materials.
Since I replaced the wooden floors at home with ceramic tiles, I have a very deep feeling.
Why do you say that? Because from the perspective of durability, wooden floors are really not as good as ceramic tiles:
1. From the perspective of wear resistance, ceramic tiles are far better than wooden floors. Like the tiles in my home, it has been two or three years since I moved in, and there are no scratches. The original wooden floors were prone to scratches.
2, it is also easier to use. After laying the floor tiles in my home, I no longer have to be so careful. In the past, I was always afraid of scratches on the wooden floors that were laid in my home, which made me feel very tired while living there.
3. No smell
Compared with wooden floors, tiled floors have a very big advantage, that is, there is almost no smell.
Whether it is the smell of wood or some pollutants, it will never appear again.
Therefore, for those friends who are worried about pollution after home decoration, choosing ceramic tiles is a better choice.
Because of the production process and laying process of ceramic tiles, there is almost no pollution.
Comparing ceramic tiles and wooden floors, we will draw the following conclusions:
1, the ceramic tiles themselves and the laying process of the ceramic tiles, there is no need to worry about the release of pollutants. Because the tiles themselves are not polluted, nor is the cement mortar used to lay them, so there is no need to worry about the smell.
2, ceramic tiles will not cause some internal structural changes due to temperature changes. In fact, for some wooden boards, as the temperature rises, the internal pollutants are released more and more. Ceramic tiles, however, do not have this problem.
4. Coldness
Ever since I replaced the wooden floor at home with ceramic tiles, I have had an obvious feeling, that is, the living room feels very cold.
This coldness is an overall feeling.
Because I also use ceramic tiles throughout the house, from the living room, dining room, kitchen and bathroom to the bedrooms and study room.
As for the tiles, I chose light gray tiles. If this kind of tiles are laid too often, it does feel cold.
Why is this happening? Personally, I think it is caused by the following reasons:
1 and the characteristics of the tile itself. Because ceramic tile itself is a kind of cold decoration material similar to stone, so after using it more, the overall decoration atmosphere will be colder.
2, the foot feel is not so comfortable, and it also feels very cold. Especially in winter, if there is no floor heating at home, if you step on the ground with bare feet, it will feel very cold, and you will not even dare to walk on the ground with bare feet.
3, light gray color also determines that the indoor atmosphere is not so warm. Because the entire floor is light gray, in fact, if this gray is used too much, it will make people feel cold.
What should you pay attention to when laying wooden floors and ceramic tiles?
It is actually possible to lay wooden floors and lay ceramic tiles. The key is what we focus on.
If we focus on durability and ease of care, then choose ceramic tiles; if we only focus on whether it is warm, comfortable, and feels good underfoot, then choose wooden floors.
However, we also need to consider the following issues, because these may influence our choice.
1. Is there floor heating under the ground?
When choosing floor paving materials, it actually depends largely on whether there is floor heating underneath.
Because as long as there is floor heating, its ground temperature will change during the heating season.
This change has a great impact on some decoration materials.
For floors with floor heating, I personally recommend that you make the following choices:
1. The first thing we can choose is to lay ceramic tiles throughout the house, and leave gaps for paving. The gap should be kept to 1.5~2 mm as much as possible, and the tiles should be full-body tiles.
2. Secondly, you can choose wooden floors dedicated to the ground. This type of wooden floor has been specially treated, so the thermal expansion and contraction caused by temperature changes is relatively small, which will avoid problems to a certain extent.
2. Is the location humid?
Floor As for whether to lay wooden floors or tiles, one thing to consider is whether our floors are wet.
Whether the ground is wet or not is also a very important factor in choosing floor paving materials.
If the ground in our home is very humid, for example, there is no basement on the first floor or there are some humid areas, then try not to choose wooden floors.
At this time, I personally recommend the following selection suggestions to you:
1. The first thing I recommend to you is to choose ceramic tiles throughout the house. For ceramic tiles, be sure to choose ceramic tiles with ultra-low water absorption. And after laying the tiles, be sure to do a good job with the seams.
2. Secondly, you can consider making a self-leveling floor. Because the self-leveling floor is more suitable for wet floors.There will be some areas like returning to Nantian, and you can also choose.
3. Will the floor be maintained?
When choosing ceramic tiles or wooden floors for the floor, one more thing to consider is whether we can maintain the floor.
In fact, many friends have good ideas when decorating, but after actually moving in, they can't do it.
Among them, the ground is a typical and prominent aspect.
Because good floors require regular care and maintenance, otherwise many problems will occur.
For different families, I personally recommend the following selection suggestions:
1. If we can maintain the ground, then we can choose wooden flooring.
2. If we cannot take good care of the floor, then it is recommended to choose ceramic tiles.
As for laying wooden floors or tiles in the living room, in addition to considering factors such as floor heating and whether the ground is moist, you must also consider specific needs.
Therefore, in this article, I will share with you some feelings about laying wooden floors and laying ceramic tiles. After we read these, we can basically make a judgment and make our own choice. I wonder if you have any better suggestions?
