Our wood flooring for living rooms in Ideal Home Magazine gives a glimpse into the process of producing and the aesthetics of living with a beautiful wood flooring. Living room floors should be inspirational, yet grounded, adding timeless quality to the centrepiece of your home. Sophie Warren-Smith, writer for Ideal Home Magazine explores the ways to find the best wooden floor for your home. Talking here with Polly from our team, they’ve discussed the true beauty of a natural wood floor. From low chemical input, to the extra wide boards that Coppice & Crown produce, the homely beauty of our flooring is discussed at length.
We know know as humans that we’re drawn to the texture and aesthetics of natural materials. Terrapin Bright Green have studied the reduction of stress and enhancement of creativity through the use of biophilic design, concluding that these qualities are as important as ever in the built environment. The use of our natural wood flooring for living rooms is a perfect example of adding natural materials into the core of our home, giving you an earth inspired base from the ground up. Wood flooring is a great option for the living room, but can be used in any room throughout your home.
The absence of any glues or chemicals in the production of our solid wood flooring is also a key aspect when designing a home. ‘With no glues or chemicals through the depth of the timber, a solid wood floor gives a completely natural flooring option to your home,’ Explains Polly to Ideal Home Magazine.
It’s about being able to help out the planet and also yourself. Reducing the amount of chemicals such as VOCs (Volatile organic compounds) hugely benefits your health and well-being in your home, making wood flooring for living rooms the perfect fit.
Keeping ourselves and the planet healthy is of paramount importance to all of us at this point in time. Not only does our solid wood flooring offer a healthy choice for your body, but for the planet too. Keeping chemicals to a minimum is a key attribute, but it’s also vital to consider the origins of your flooring and its imprint on the planet.
All of our wood is sourced from certified woodlands in the UK. We don’t import a single tree or board to our yard, and so can guarantee full traceability of your floor. When talking to Ideal Home Magazine, Polly said ”We have some beautiful homegrown timbers in this country, so if you can buy from the UK, do. Imported timber needs to be checked for its ethical approach and usually it comes with a much higher carbon footprint, so it’s always worth buying UK grown where you can.”
Choosing the right solid wood flooring for living rooms means more than checking for its full traceability and zero chemical status, it’s about the aesthetics too.
“The beauty of solid wood flooring is that you can choose the width of your boards to suit your space. This is invaluable as they can really change your overall look and make a room feel larger and more spacious – similar to choosing different widths of striped wallpaper for example. ” Sophie Warren-Smith, Writer, Ideal Home Magazine. It’s worth considering the widths of the boards you’re wanting – wide boards are very luxurious adding quiet luxury to your floor, whereas narrower boards are quite easily available across flooring brands.
Your living room is one of the most sociable rooms within your home, so it’s important to find the best quality floor that you can for this space. We offer all of our solid wood flooring ranges as the perfect living room flooring choice. It’s always worth getting a few samples and placing them into your space to decide exactly which flooring suits your home best.
If you’ve chosen your textiles already, you can hold your samples up close against sofas and chairs. We also suggest creating a mood board if possible, using small pieces of all your favourite materials to get a closer look at the final tones and textures of your room. For samples, you can order these by popping us an email, or completing our sample checklist on our homepage.
