Enduring Flooring Materials Style Guide

As you work on a fresh look for your home, you want to be sure your new design will be high fashion and high quality. With today's new designs and flooring technologies, you can get both longevity and beautiful looks in one package.

At LL Flooring, we have a collection of enduring flooring options to cater to your sophisticated style and creativity for all areas of your home.

What Flooring Holds Up Best for Busy Areas?

Duravana hybrid resilient flooring can handle the busiest areas of your home. It combines the best attributes of wood, vinyl, and laminate for extreme dent and wear resistance, making it ideal for households with kids and pets running around. Beyond this, however, Duravana’s range of styles is designed to replicate the natural color, grain, and texture of real hardwood. Its statement-making wide planks provide an unmatched, refined, and timeless aesthetic.

Combined with the authentic graining in up to 22 unique plank patterns, this flooring option provides a fashionable and authentic hardwood appearance to suit any home design. Additionally, Duravana is eco-friendly, 100% PVC free, and built for longevity.

The Best Flooring for Wet Areas

Laundry rooms, kitchens, basements, and bathrooms can be damp areas or prone to spills and splashes, which can make choosing flooring tricky.

Porcelain tile—made from densely packed, high-fired clay mixed other ingredients—has long been a popular option for bathrooms. And now with today’s wood-look designs, you have an even broader range of styles to choose from. Subtle-textured, wire-brushed or distressed wood-look porcelain tiles can add visual texture and traditional antique character not only to your bathroom, but other rooms of your home. Moreover, because porcelain tiles are waterproof, they allow for stylish, accessible showers that extend directly into the bathroom floor without a curb.

Other wet-area flooring options include vinyl plank, waterproof laminate, Duravana hybrid resilient flooring, and Hydrocork.

What Is the Best Flooring for an Enclosed Porch or Sunroom?

Enclosed porches and sunrooms are areas that can experience more dramatic fluctuations in temperature and humidity. This means that the optimal flooring material for these areas is one that's both dimensionally stable and moisture resistant. Tile is a good choice, particularly for warmer climates because it stays cool underfoot.

Vinyl plank is an easy-to-install flooring option that offers wear resistance and waterproof performance. Just be sure to choose the rigid vinyl plank variety, since that's the type that's least likely to expand or contract in the changing temperature. Also look for waterproof or water-resistant options in laminate and hybrid flooring. Sunlight can alter the appearance of some materials over time, though, so keep that in mind when you're researching specific products.

For outdoor porches and patios, porcelain tile could be the solution that you're looking for. It's waterproof, so you won't have to worry about rainy days, and its resilience means you can rest assured that it won't crack in the cold, either.

Discover a wide selection of enduring flooring materials for style that lasts at LL Flooring.