Bold colors and patterns are making a splash on floors this year, while at the other end of the spectrum, quieter Scandinavian and nature-inspired designs are also on trend. This wide range of design styles leaves ample room for self-expression in residential décor or for branding in commercial spaces.
Demand for larger formats continues in all hard surface flooring categories, including ceramic tile, hardwood, luxury vinyl, and laminate flooring. Consumers and designers prefer slab tiles with fewer grout lines and longer, wider planks for wood looks.
Top Color and Design Flooring Trends
Current home interior design trends include ceramic and porcelain tile in abundant jewel tones, charcoals, and blacks, setting the stage for dramatic spaces this year.
Hardwood and wood-look products are leaning warmer and softer. Blonde colors are rising in popularity, and expresso hues are also in vogue at the darker end. Even traditional mid-tones are coming back, giving consumers a full range of shades to suit any style.
Meanwhile, the cold grays that dominated for the past several years are phasing out of hardwood and wood-look products, now warmed up in mixes with browns and taupe.
Bleached or White Oak
Pale natural designs like bleached wood or white oak looks are trendy this year, perfect for Scandinavian design. These blonde hues also coordinate well with many other fashionable styles, including contemporary, industrial, or vintage farmhouse designs.
Bleached wood or white oak in engineered flooring, hardwood, vinyl, and laminate is in demand. Unlike the once-trendy pickled or white-washed looks that now look dated, today’s soft wood looks have a timeless, organic appeal that will age well and lend themselves to future design updates.
Natural Wood and Stone
Natural wood looks dominate most hard surface flooring categories, including ceramic and porcelain tile. American species, especially white oak, red oak, maple, hickory, and reclaimed pine, are in the highest demand.
The recent shift from rustic to vintage has prompted a growing preference for smoother wood looks with subtler graining, less distressing and scraping, and fewer knots and saw marks. Hand in hand with this shift, warmer, more traditional colors are now replacing or blending with the cooler grays.
Natural stone and stone looks in luxury vinyl tile, ceramic and porcelain tile, and sheet vinyl abound this year. Marble, slate, and limestone top the list, although the options seem limitless.
Unique Tile Floor Patterns
Ceramic and porcelain tile floors have exploded with color and patterns this year. Modern geometrics, along with vintage patterns, allow for endless combinations to customize any space.
Checkerboard tile floor patterns in black and white or black and gray, along with terrazzo looks are especially trendy, yet timeless with their vintage vibes. Overlapping patterns are also a new trend, giving tile design enhanced depth and interest.
Vinyl Flooring: Luxury Vinyl Plank and Tile
Luxury vinyl flooring is one of the most versatile flooring products, suitable for any space, including bathrooms, kitchens, and rental homes where hardwood installations are more likely to fail.
Mimicking more expensive hardwood, stone and tile looks, price points for vinyl flooring tend to be lower. With authentic designs that can sometimes fool even the experts, budget-friendly luxury vinyl flooring is moving into more residential spaces and even commercial properties.
Vinyl Flooring that Looks Like Wood
Wood looks are by far the most popular designs for vinyl flooring. Like hardwood trends, the colors are skewing warmer and softer, with blonde shades in exceptionally high demand.
Luxury vinyl tile can give your space any species or color of wood with authentic textures and graining but at a lower price point.
Vinyl Flooring Patterns
Using patterns in flooring is one of the hottest home interior design trends. Designers are specifying wood-look vinyl flooring planks to be installed in herringbone, chevron, and diagonal patterns. And you can even get vinyl tile in parquet designs, which are also enjoying a resurgence.
Stone looks in alternating darks and lights or a mixture of wood look planks and stone look tiles also create interest in a room and can even help define areas in open-space living.
Laminate Flooring
Another lower-cost alternative to hardwood is laminate flooring. Although laminate is inherently less water resistant than vinyl flooring, it is often more scratch resistant. Laminate wood looks have enhanced authenticity in recent years with embossed texture following the wood grain, matte finishes, and beveled edges.
One of the benefits of laminate is the ability to offer much wider and longer planks. Hardwood has a tendency to warp or cup in wider and longer formats, whereas laminate’s layered design provides more stability to the planks.
Laminate Oak Flooring
Like hardwood, laminate styles are shifting with preferences for warmer colors and blonde tones. Many manufacturers’ laminate oak flooring offerings now include white oak as well as bleached options in other species to satisfy the new interior design trends.
Laminate Flooring Patterns
Similar to luxury vinyl planks, laminate flooring trends have popularized layouts in herringbone, chevron and diagonal patterns. Parquet looks are also trending in laminate, giving any space a vintage feel.
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