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Flooring rules.


* Flooring should suit the style of your interior and also match each room's purpose. The best option for one room can be a costly mistake in another.

* Always get a room professionally measured. Get a sample so you can see it in your own home and in natural light before you buy.

* Marble or limestone limestone, sedimentary rock wholly or in large part composed of calcium carbonate. It is ordinarily white but may be colored by impurities, iron oxide making it brown, yellow, or red and carbon making it blue, black, or gray. The texture varies from coarse to fine.  tiles are practical and increasingly popular in other rooms aside from kitchens and bathrooms but may chill the atmosphere too much in a north-facing, sun-starved living room.

* Using the same flooring for hall, landings and stairways helps create a cohesive cohesive,
n the capability to cohere or stick together to form a mass.
 feel in a home. Extending the same flooring from those areas into other rooms makes spaces flow and appear bigger.
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Publication:The Journal (Newcastle, England)
Date:Oct 30, 2004
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