Your home’s flooring is one of the more luxurious investments you will make when beautifying the interior. Your selections are many, and picking different fabrications for each room need not result in a haphazard look. The connection between the flooring types is color.

Select your interior’s color palette before shopping for flooring. You should go for three different types of flooring from any one point in your home.

Color Scheme
Good interior design includes a color scheme for the entire house. Modifications in color choices depend on the location of the rooms and the number of levels in the house.

Starting with the hallway/entrance hall, select either stone, mosaic, tile, wood or a slate to mark the welcoming entry to your home. If you have a smaller apartment, laying one color and type of flooring throughout the main living areas vividly enlarges the living space.

Living Areas
The living room flooring can be sculpted laminated, wood, bamboo, tile, stone or carpet. The main aim is to mix and match the color of the floor with the hallway, as one flows into the other. An exact match isn’t necessary as long as the hues blend.

To avoid monotony in large spaces, consider an insert piece of carpet surrounded by hardwood. A dining room works best with stone or tile flooring.

Family Areas
Your family room’s flooring, specifically if it runs into the kitchen, should continue the color theme and benefits from a similarity to the kitchen flooring. If you choose carpet, go for a sculpted finish in a darker shade to prevent stain marks.

Tile, wood, and stone work best in high-traffic rooms. The kitchen should be tile, cork or stone, and it must keep within the color scheme of rooms that lead into it. Avoid laminate and wood in case water overflows and causes warping.

Bedrooms
The bedroom is where you show your creativity in the flooring. Children’s rooms should have hard-surfaced flooring. A distressed laminate is less costly than wood and stands up to too much wear and tear.

If the main bedroom is away from the living area, the colors can feed off the room’s decor, as long as they don’t clang with the entryway flooring.

Choose a neutral color for the entryway, preferably in laminate, tile, and wood, and your choices of bedroom flooring widen
If you are going for a hard surface flooring in your bedroom, area rugs on either side of the bed provide a warm footpath.

Blend the colors with the flooring you have selected for the bathroom. Placing a faux-Oriental carpet, with rubber backing, in the middle of the bathroom adds stylishness and hue.