Types of Flooring Selections with a DiGiovanni Home

If you purchase a new home by DiGiovanni Homes in Clearwater, Dunedin, Safety Harbor or Palm Harbor, you will get to select the type of flooring you want in your home? Make it your own, with your favorite materials, colors, styles, patterns, etc.

Here is a description of some of your options of flooring types through Stewart’s Flooring.

Hardwood

By selecting hardwood throughout your home, you add warmth, beauty, and ease of cleaning. There is a large selection from oak hardwood flooring to gleaming Brazilian cherry hardwood floors, solid or engineered hardwood floors. They have plank, hand scraped, and wire brushed.

The different species of hardwood are acacia, ash, birch, hickory, oak, elm, kupay, maple, mora, northern maple, oak, red maple, red oak, satin walnut, shiringa, sweet gum, walnut, white oak, and yellow birch.

Carpet

At Stewart’s Flooring America, there is a variety of carpets available for your DiGiovanni Home.

The brands are Tigressa Carpet, Resista Carpet, Mohawk Carpet, Shaw Carpet, and Stainmaster Carpet.

Here are definitions of the different types of carpets:

Axminster Carpet – This is a machine-woven carpet where an enormous variety of colors are used to produce colorful patterns.

Berber Carpet – This is a carpet that has the off-white, heathered look of cloaks used by the Berber tribes of North Africa. Berber carpets use flecked yarns in loop styles with sizes from large nubby ones to smaller styles. Berber styles come in pastels and dark tones as well.

Cork Flooring – This flooring is made from the bark of cork oak trees, which is a replenishable material which is available in tiles and sheets.

Cut-and-Loop Carpet – A multi-level loop carpet, where the taller loops are sheared. The texture and variegated colorings will help to hide traffic wear and soil.

Flat Weave – These carpets are flat woven traditional to India. They are made of cotton or silk.

Level Loop Carpet – This carpet is woven or tufted with a same-height loop surface.

Plush Carpet – A smooth, dense, cut pile carpet in which individual tufts are only minimally visible, and the overall visual effect is a single level of fiber ends.

Shag Carpet – This carpet was popular in the 1970s, and a new type of contemporary shag in more up-to-date colors is gaining in popularity today. It has a  deep-pile texture with long-cut surface yarns.

Woven Carpet – This carpet makes for a sturdy textile for your floor, which includes Axminster and Wilton.

Laminate

Laminates have a dense fiberboard core with a paper pattern layer sealed both top and bottom under high pressure with a plastic-like substance. It is sold as planks and panels in stone, wood, tile, and other looks.

Tile

Tile is a perfect choice for a Florida home. There are several selections: 

Ceramic Tile – This tile is made from a mixture of organic materials or clay. Ceramic tile is finished by kiln firing and comes in many shapes and sizes glazed or unglazed.

Mosaic Tile – It is a small ceramic tile, glass, hard porcelain or glazed or unglazed mounted. They can also be used to create designs for walls and floors.

Luxury Vinyl

Luxury vinyl tile is long lasting available in a large selection of artistic designs inspired by nature, such as marble, wood, and stone. It resists scuffs, tears, gouges, rips, and scratches and is affordable, durable, resilient, resistant to water, and can be installed virtually anywhere in your home.

If you’re looking for a new home built by a premier homebuilder with quality finishes, visit DiGiovanni Homes at Montclair Lake Townhomes and Villas at 2251 Montclair Road in Clearwater, or call Patrick at 727-637-5134.

If you’re ready to buy a new home, check out one of the DiGiovanni Homes available! Our new homes offer spacious, open floor plans in the form of single-family homes, condos or townhomes in Tampa Bay’s best communities. Visit Digiovannihomes.com today to learn more!