Best Walnut and Maple Laminate Flooring

Laminate flooring (also called floating wood tile in the United States) is a multi-layer synthetic flooring product fused together with a lamination process. Laminate flooring simulates wood (or sometimes stone) with a photographic appliquelayer under a clear protective layer. The inner core layer is usually composed of fiber board materials. Laminate flooring has grown significantly in popularity, perhaps because it may be easier to install and maintain than more traditional surfaces such as hardwood flooring. It may also have the advantages of costing less and requiring less skill to install than alternative flooring materials. Nowadays, there are many laminate flooring manufacturers all over the world from which are the well known brands we are familiar with like Quick Step, Kronotex, BBL, Egger,ext.  

No matter what the brand is, the final aim is to provide high quality and stylish products to meet consumers’ ever changing needs. Regarding the quality, laminate flooring is assurable due to the melamine impregnated overlay and the good performance core board. Additionally, balancing construction of four layers strengthens the stability of laminate flooring. All these factors guarantee a long lifetime of laminate flooring. Regarding style, laminate flooring could provide exactly what the hardwood flooring can bring because of its decor colors which mainly simulate various wood species like walnut, beech, oak, maple, cherry, ext. Among those wood decor colors, walnut laminate flooring and maple laminate flooring are very popular because of their classical wood grains and color tones.

Walnut laminate flooring has various styles such as black walnut laminate flooring, American walnut laminate flooring. Walnut laminate flooring has fine, straight graining and coloring is a rich, almost chocolate brown. Homeowners like the natural color of walnut and the warmth it automatically adds to a room.

Walnut laminate flooring is especially popular among European countries like Bulgaria, Ireland. Maple laminate flooring is with very pale, creamy white color which has slight shade differences from board to board. To have a vivid simulation, the maple decor can contain minimal to a lot of brownish/black mineral streaks. Maple graining is very light and fine and many times barely discernible and grains will range from uniformly straight lines to curly patterns. Like walnut laminate flooring, maple laminate flooring is also named into various styles according to the unique character of the decor colors such as honey maple, rustic maple, natural maple and light maple,etc. Among those maple colors,the honey maple is warmly accepted because of the sweet and comfortable feeling it takes. Maple laminate flooring is very popular among south east Asia countries like Thailand and Philipines.