Unlike natural flooring options like wood, stone or cork, laminate flooring is a synthetic material. It’s made up of four different layers—wear, décor, core and backer—that are sealed ...

Laminate Wood Flooring (a.k.a. floating wood tile) Multiple layers of thinly pressed wood boards are fused onto a fiberboard core and finished with a layer of resin to make laminate wood flooring.

Laminate flooring is a snazzy synthetic, usually designed to look like wood, though it can mimic stone or tile too. Easy to install and maintain, it costs far less than floors made of natural ...

HomeAdvisor, the home services website, estimates that it costs $3,131 to install new flooring in a standard, 320-square-foot living room (20 feet by 16 feet), with budget installations of, say ...

To test flooring for foot-traffic wear, we rub abrasive paper discs back and forth against 6x6-inch flooring samples, checking for wear every 50 cycles. The best flooring is unscathed after 500 ...

Also known as bleached and Scandinavian-style floors, these styles tend to have a white finish, wide plank, and very natural feel. Nordic-design lovers, this one is probably for you.