Asked what holds up best in a busy family home, Dress Your Home picks wood-look tile or hard floors. About two years ago, laminate went into a Colleyville home with three children and a dog that Veronica worked on. For homes with kids and dogs, she recommends luxury vinyl or a great waterproof laminate. Dress Your Home is a full-service studio based in Colleyville, offering interior design in Colleyville and serving a 30-mile radius across DFW.
Why we recommend luxury vinyl or waterproof laminate around kids and dogs
Veronica's reasons are that they look beautiful, they are half the cost, and you don't have to worry about staining or scratches. They are also extremely easy to clean and function so well for a busy family, and she finds the functionality superb, especially with young children.
If kids and pets share your house too, tell us about your home and which rooms take the most wear.
Working within a budget
Working within a budget is very important to us, and honoring the client often means honoring the budget. A Google review from a Colleyville client says Veronica works within budget and balances high-end items with ones that are moderately priced.
How we handle a flooring change
For a luxury vinyl or laminate, Veronica says she would "choose one that looks like a French oak." She adds that it "will look great for years to come," and most people will never know it isn't real wood. On a selections job we make flooring one of the hard finishes we choose first and leave furniture for last, since a sofa picked ahead of a final floor may not work in the room. Picking out flooring can be done in 4 to 6 hours, and from purchase to installation takes approximately three weeks. The job is always easier with less furniture in the house, but a great installer has a furniture-moving team.
Veronica is hands-on and sees each project through to completion. We've found that paint and flooring change a home very quickly.
Our selections work
For the homeowners of the Tesoro Custom Home, we handled the whole-home selections, and this is the home's living room, which opens from indoors to out.
Before any material is chosen on a whole-home selection, we plan on two to four conversations, spread over roughly two weeks, about how the family lives, from how they cook to whether they use the formal dining room. Flooring is part of our Kitchen, Bath & Architectural Selections service.
A Colleyville bath with a patterned floor
A Colleyville bath renovation of ours traded beige tumbled tile for blue stacked tile with a brass-framed mosaic niche. The floor in that bath now has a pattern.
Next step: a conversation about your floors
Send a few details about your project and say which rooms you want new floors in, and we'll follow up within one business day to set up a conversation.
