Flooring ‘N Tiles

Here’s a quick tip – if you want to be able to keep your floor clean, make sure it’s available for cleaning.

If we crowd the floor with too much furniture in each room, and if the furniture is too heavy to move easily by ourselves, we’ll end up only cleaning the walkways, and allowing lots of dust and grime to build up beneath the furniture. Seating and tables should be made of light weight materials, like bamboo and rattan that you can move aside with one hand while you’re sweeping, mopping, or vacuuming with the other.

Entertainment centers should be wall mounted or on wheels for easy access to the floor. Bookshelves should stop a foot or so above the floor, rather than go all the way down, thus leaving free space to get the broom, mop, and vacuum under. Lamps should be mounted on walls and ceilings, so there’s one less thing to clean around. Potted plants should be put on round trays with raised lips and wheels. These trays keep water from draining onto the floor, and allow you to roll your plants out of the way when you tidy up.

Time to recommend one more cleaning device today. I am always amazed at how modern technology brings us not only new types of flooring, but also new machines to clean it with. Take this effective electric mop and see what you can get these days for under $100:

Why bend, when you can use this tall upright mop? Its head can actually swivel, so you don’t have to. Reach those corners and hard-to-reach spots, without breaking your back.

It uses only steam for an all-natural cleaning procedure – no chemicals, no toxic fumes, no residue anywhere on your tiles. The water gets filtered internally, for the purest steam only.The neat narrow shape lends itself as easily to storage as a simple broom would.

Effective, easy to use and to store, and affordable – what else can you ask for in an electric mop? No wonder this one is a best seller. Check out the Bissell 1867 right here on Amazon for the most attractive price and full specs.

Remember the adhesive mirror tiles? Well, it’s not just on the walls that you can peel and stick tiles. If you have a clean hard floor surface, you can easily turn it into a wall-to-wall carpeting. Emphasis here being on “ease”:

Anyone can do this simple DIY project.

No need for messing around with glue or moving huge cumbersome carpets and properly fitting them into a room. Nope. These carpet tiles are so much easier. Just work on your floor, one square at a time, easily peeling off the back of these tiles and fitting them one next to the other. It just doesn’t get much easier than this.

It’s creative too. With several colors available, allowing you to create carpeted patterns, you can create checkered floors with a warm touch. Perfect for renovating children’s room and adding a unique touch of your own.

These tiles come in packs of 12 pieces, each 12 by 12 inches. They are available here on Amazon, so no need to start looking for them at the shops. Simply order them and enjoy the quality fast service they provide to get these tiles right to your doorstep.

Click here for the Peel and Stick Carpet Tiles

Mirrors are a popular home decor element. They’re sleek, modern looking and can even enhance a room, making it seem larger than it is. Sometimes though, you want to avoid huge unbroken surfaces of shiny mirrors, and this is where these mirror tiles come in handy.

They are tiles in shape, but not in terms of functionality – you need to attach them to clean smooth surfaces, so you won’t be tiling a wall with them in the sense usually referred to on our blog. 4 inches by 4, they can enhance your regular tiles, and used cleverly, they can create some interesting patterns in a room. A classic for the bathroom, these come in sets of twenty and can also be used elsewhere in the house, on doors and elsewhere as well.

Check out the product page on Amazon for the current price – and have them shipped to you today

In architectural terms, a mezzanine is essentially a floor protruding from a wall and share a ceiling with the floor beneath it. Mezzanines are walkways or lobbies overlooking a ground floor for example, suspended between floors as another layer. Typically, what this means in terms of flooring then is also that mezzanines are most often places of traffic.

Typical mezzanine flooring is anything but. Like all structures without a solid cement base, mezzanines are structured to support a prescribed weight load of flooring. We have all seen mezzanine flooring with tiles, marble, carpet and wood, so the aesthetic choices typically are pretty wide open. Bearing in mind the traffic load, some durability is generally referred to.

Typically, mezzanine floor flooring refers to the less intimate and detailed flooring we might find in such things as mosaics or hand-painted tiles, which are more along the lines of that tiling you might find in a bathroom, living room or kitchen in a home. There is often a reference to some ease of cleanup as well, inasmuch as typical mezzanine flooring requires the attention which public traffic inspires, like dust, grease, chewing gum and the like. Thus mezzanine flooring can even include metals and more functional items which are thinner, require less structural support and are easier to assemble.

Depending on the use, even carpeting could apply as mezzanine flooring but, in general, the term refers to durable flooring compositions of lightweight, yet durable composition.

Natural marble light floor tiles have all those charateristics we look for in a marble product: a veiny, multicolored look, speckled with granite-like inbedded splashes of color and a semi-tranluscent sheen. Marble has been used for centuries as a flooring product for the very most elegant places. The glamor and sheer beauty of marble override some of its detriments and offer a strikingly gorgeous flooring solution that pleases absolutely everyone with its breathtaking charm.

However, as mentioned marble has a detriment or two. It is not nearly as hard a material as Travertine, for example, and many other natural stone flooring tiles. There is a reason outside of it’s gorgeous color that is has served well as a scupltor’s medium: it very simply cuts easier than many other materials. Marble also has issues with standing water and anything possessing a level of acidity which often weakens it. It is pourous enough to collect the acidic waters and chemicals and certainly soft enough to break down over time.

Nevertheless, marble remains the “summa cum laude” of flooring beauty, simply because of its sheer beauty. And it does indeed have that. Tightly-veined, impressively colored, seemingly semi-transparent, marble can be an absolutely breath-taking material to use on flooring in a residence where constant traffic is less than in a commerical application and where the upkeep on it can be safely assumed. Marble light floor tiles are very easy to install as well, something I certainly care about. The materials on the slick, clear surface wipe up perfectly and owing to the expense, they typically get cut to exactly the specificiations and installer wants most. By residential, not commerical standards, marble holds up as well as any flooring tile.