Laminate in the interior on the floor, wall, ceiling - 100+ Photos, useful tips and binding recommendations
Laminate in the interior has become an indispensable and the most used by designers material.
Photos of finished works using this type of material will help you choose the style.
Content:
Briefly immersed in history
The first laminate floor was in Sweden in 1977, but it appeared on the sales stalls only after three years. New at the time type of flooring very quickly conquered European space.
In 1994, the production of laminated board reaches a huge scale.
It should be clarified that the first samples of laminate were not at all a product of high quality and an assortment that we can observe today, with notable success being achieved only by the end of the 80s.
Each species passes certain stages of testing.
Now this coating is one of the most popular floor surfaces in the world.
return to menu ↑What is the secret of popularity?
Laminated multi-layer flooring, made mainly of sawdust, glue and tape. You may be disappointed when you find out that the structure of wood that we see is just an image on top of the main bottom layer.
High quality - perfect appearance
Laminate is a decorative coating, and it fits into the "floating" way, which in turn allows us to lay it without sacrificing quality.
The styling is very similar to the build process of a regular constructor.
The building materials stores a wide range of available finishing materials.
Appearance appeal
I suggest you familiarize yourself with the composition and main characteristics, advantages, minuses of the material.
So, the components:
- a protective layer, melamine, acryl or other special coatings may be used;
- film of decorating paper;
- paper layer impregnated with special resins;
- base chipboard or wood fiber block;
- cardboard impregnated with paraffin or plastic.
Artificial woodgrain material
Laminated coating has an artificial origin. The elements are connected by a compression method, so the laminate is a high pressure product.
Such flooring will create a warm, cozy atmosphere and feel the extra comfort in the room.
Comfort in your home
In addition, choosing laminate, you get a durable, compact and versatile material for your design project.
Laying laminate is fairly simple.
How to pick up?
I will not reveal to you the secret, if I say that currently there are various types of laminate on the market - various options and colors.
Beautiful floor - the basis of a beautiful home
All this opens the door to real creativity, for the appearance of a miracle in the interior, opening up to an experienced designer tools that allow you to create a unique style in all rooms.
Unique style using laminate
New trends in the design world offer to apply a coating of intense colors with original patterns and textures.
However, classic colors and glossy surfaces never lose their relevance.
Laminate wood noble breed
Preference in choosing - an important and complex goal. And yet, the ability to follow the basic rules suggests that we will successfully cope with this mission.
It is preferable to dwell on the offer of those manufacturers that are well known to most consumers, which will give you confidence in the quality of the product being purchased.
Brand is a guarantee of quality
The thickness of the coating should not be less than 7-8 mm. In this embodiment, the material will provide good wear resistance and thermal conductivity.
The thinner the panel, the more sensitive the stress. At the same time, the thickness of the board reduces thermal conductivity, requires more heat, which you will need during the heating season.
Indicator 7-8 mm - a compromise that allows you to balance the most important characteristics.
Reliability is Comfortable
The density of the laminated fabric plays a role, because the higher this indicator, the more reliable the floor you will get. Density should not be less than 850 kg / m3.
Specifications
Choose whether or not laminate your case, look at the photo. And this finishing material has a whole list of characteristics. I will name you only the main ones:
- High-quality laminated flooring is stress resistant and has high strength. He is not afraid of scratches and other mechanical effects.
- Laminated coating is marked by high thermal resistance: the included heater or a pack of cigarettes does not leave marks on it.
- It is easy to care for laminated surfaces - simple wet cleaning is enough to keep it clean. It does not need to be polished.
Material excellence
- Security. Laminate is an environmentally friendly material. The absence of chemical vapors and harmful elements allows its use in children’s and living rooms of allergy sufferers.
- Laminated parquet is easily fixed and suitable for almost any surface.
- The service life is approximately 10 years with normal use.
Laminate in a modern interior
Profitability - the laminated floor will be cheaper than real parquet, but in no way inferior to it in quality.
The perfect solution in the living room
Now that we have become familiar with the benefits and characteristics, have learned how to select laminate for the interior, it remains to look closer at the photos, and also deal with the features and subtleties of professional design.
return to menu ↑Dark laminate floor
Dark laminate flooring is the first touch of a classic design. Many shades of material can be considered dark. Dark brown laminate looks expensive, it visually radiates heat and adds some coziness to the room.
Add comfort to your home
Black laminated flooring is more extravagant, and it is a wonderful decor for any stylish interior.
Comfort, tranquility, relaxation
Dark laminated walnut parquet can give the floor a cold look, which causes a feeling of alienation.
Black laminated parquet in the interior sometimes looks boring, but only if due to inexperience you have diluted it with inappropriate elements.
Good imitation natural wood coating
Therefore, if you work with such a complex surface, you will need to take care of the color of the walls, ceiling, accessories and furniture.
With a suitable approach, the dark floor makes the interior more noble and expensive. The choice of black laminated wood flooring depends on the style of the entire room.
One thing can be said: dark laminated flooring always looks more expensive in comparison with bright, even if they are made of the same materials.
The main thing that you feel comfortable
If you are limited in funds, you can make an interior that looks noble. Just choose a dark cherry finish for yourself and try to avoid mistakes with additional interior components.
return to menu ↑Unexpected, bright colors
Shades of red and orange are largely combined with a dark or brown floor. Bright red colors are aggressive. Orange strengthens the sunny mood. The combination of gold, bronze with a dark brown floor is considered a classic.
Classic remains unchanged
Perhaps there is no better way to express your high status and good taste than a similar interior.
A dark floor will look more attractive if it includes elements of a green palette.
Color and mood - harmony
This combination is incredibly harmonious because it represents the earth with grass. The basis of such a color scale is, of course, dark brown or black, complemented by a dark green color, light green color, lime color or olives.
return to menu ↑Gray laminated floor
As you already understood, the shade of the floor is a very important element of the interior, it will surely determine the necessary accents.
Interior elements are very important.
Thus, a light gray solution will add light, cold and austerity to the style of the room. To make a contrast and create a kind of dynamics, you should give a choice to a dark gray coating.
Applying a gray laminate of various tones, it is convenient to zone small rooms.
Magnificent interior in loft style
In the transition from light to dark tones, you can convey the charm of his plan.
The room where the gray laminate becomes a continuation of wallpaper, panels or decorating elements will look great.
As a highlight in interior design
Therefore, lightweight light curtains of color, like a web, enveloping the window, will create an old style, visually increase the size of the apartment.
return to menu ↑White laminate in the interior
The white coating is successfully applied in a variety of styles, such as classic, minimalism, Scandinavian, art deco, shebbi-chic or high-tech.
Any style for one color
In the interior, he, like the dark, refers to the classic version. It is ideally combined with restrained tones, bright color accents.
White as black, out of fashion, time. White is an expressive background for dark furniture, and the light will help to "dissolve", merge with it, which will visually enlarge the room.
Focusing on details
The floors with a glossy finish create an incredible, interesting play of reflections. A dark little room with a white floor will become larger. If you use white laminate flooring, it will be easy for you to choose colors for home decoration.
In addition, the room will be visually lighter and lighter, this solution will allow you to play with contrasts, choosing, for example, dark furniture, or combining a light floor and ceiling with rich, colorful wallpaper.
return to menu ↑Laminate on the wall! Do you believe that?
Laminated flooring has become a completely versatile material, which is no longer a pure floor covering.
All in tune, all in one color
There are brands that produce specialized laminate for walls, equipped with system fasteners, but the standard laminate is quite applicable to the inner walls.
Wall laminate in the interior is no longer a novelty, today everywhere we come across a photo of very bizarre design solutions.
Design solutions are sometimes incomprehensible, but they look great
To surprise the consumer with a nontrivial use of familiar materials is an almost impossible task. But, I still offer to look at how laminated flooring looks stylish and original on the wall.
return to menu ↑Hallway - contrast and its use
The corridor is usually a very small room.Laminate in the hallway, is found in the photo, where the design execution, developed on the principle of contrast. The floor, covered with dark laminate, is adjacent to the light walls, forming light and vice versa.
As one of the options for originality
But, it is not advisable to overlap with this material, the entire surface of the walls, be limited to panels to a height equal to the length of the strip.
Horizontal suitable for large rooms. Kitchen - an alternative to tiled apron
In the kitchen space, the laminate is often separated by the so-called "apron".
Unlimited ideas and fantasy
I choose the color so that it is combined with furniture fronts. Such an apron is almost as good as ceramic tile.
It is much cheaper and easier to install, it makes it easy to take care of the cleanliness of the kitchen area.
return to menu ↑Balconies and Loggias - an alternative vision
Many closed balconies, balconies are comfortable, cozy through decoration. The wood-styled balcony looks very elegant.
Practical, aesthetic, attractive
In addition to the appearance, an additional layer of insulation is formed.
Convenient combination of comfort, attractiveness
The only thing is the quality of waterproofing to protect against excessive moisture.
Even accidental contact with the laminate in the interior, let us believe that beauty, accessibility do exist.
Inspired by nature itself
This material is universal and can be useful both from the standpoint of practicality, and from the decorative side, applicable in any room or office, in the most unusual places.
Feel free to bring your projects to life, use laminate.
Laminate selection
How to choose?
Timely found information helps to save significantly. I read the article, reviewed the photos of wonderful interiors, admired. Pros and cons of the laminate are perfectly revealed. Particularly interested in the theme of wall decoration. I think I’m trying to test the original version in the corridor, making vertical, up to half the height of the room, panels under a tree. The idea is wonderful, will allow to combine various materials, decorating the interior is unusual. The design of the hallway will be both strict and modern. In the bedroom of her daughter, they laid laminate light for a long time, although they chose meticulously. Qualities of the highest! How many years have passed, children have children, spill something accidentally, or drag that heavy across the floor.However, the advantage of a good manufacturer is that the coating is still in good condition. The main thing is environmental friendliness of materials, especially in children's rooms. No harmful fumes. And in the summer they like to lie on a cool, pleasant tactile floor! Some advantages from me and the recognition of this coverage as one of the worthy ones.
After reading this article, I had only one thought, why I did not study at least some information about it and how to choose it before buying a laminate.
When my husband and I started repairs, the question of what to lay on the floor was better, the husband wanted linoleum, and I was set up for laminate flooring, the pictures on the Internet with such a floor looked very nice. Naturally my husband gave in to me and we opted for laminate. We hired a handlers team and soon they made candy from our old floor. Outwardly, everything was gorgeous, the floor just changed and the laminate turned out to be quite pleasant to the touch. Around the first half of the year, everything was fine with us, the floor did not slip, it looked gorgeous, and it was not difficult to wash it. But, as it turned out, this coverage has some disadvantages.
We had a daughter when summer came, she was 2 years old and I decided to abandon the diapers, and here the negative sides of our floor covering surfaced. Everyone knows that a child cannot immediately take and start walking on the pot, therefore, in the process of schooling, there are often slips in the form of puddles on the floor, sofa, bed. Naturally, my daughter is no exception, she ran around the house, and I only had time to wipe the puddles behind her and began to notice that our laminate began to swell. After a couple of months, our floor was spoiled, I don’t know, maybe we took a poor-quality coating and we had to take a better-known manufacturer, as advised in the article. Maybe the handlers made any mistakes in the work ... it's hard to say. And most importantly, it was necessary to prepare for the purchase, read articles and reviews about laminate, perhaps then we would order coverage from a trusted manufacturer, and would not take the first option that we liked.
The fact that the laminate is the most suitable, in our, economically difficult, time is a fact. This is, firstly, the conformity of price and quality, and secondly for health it is safe. Personally, I have laminate on the floor. I consider linoleum to be a harmful coating, and wood flooring is really very expensive nowadays. Not everyone, even those who earn very well, buy parquet for themselves, basically, as far as I know, they take laminate flooring. But laminate on the walls and on the ceiling ... In principle, why not, but it seems to me that this is unnecessary, especially on the ceiling. Plus it is more expensive than wallpaper for sure. Although it is possible that when the standard of living in our country improves, it is possible that laminated ceilings and wallpapers will enter and enter History.
I will not argue with the author of the article, laminate is a good thing, but in our already “carefree” time, many people simply cannot afford it.I personally have laminas in all bedrooms throughout the apartment, but I put it 5-6 years ago and I will tell you if it keeps perfectly, if you wash the floor, it looks like new. Then the finance was easier. It’s a pity, of course, that I didn’t stumble upon this article before, as I chose this very laminate, just to guess. I did not think that so many factors influence its quality. All the same, the photo just disappears, bright and beautiful. Thanks to the author for the article, I personally learned a lot of new things, 100% this knowledge will come in handy someday.
There are many legends about laminate, both good and bad, but I’ll say one thing for sure that I personally checked on myself - don’t buy the cheapest laminate, even if it looks no worse than the more expensive one! Since we decided to save and put laminate instead of parquet, it is worth taking only an expensive, proven manufacturer, because low-quality laminate samples have not once shown themselves to be completely incompatible with water - they immediately bulged, dried for a long time and subsequently lost all their old beauty. But this does not mean that all the laminate is such, just do not save, especially when there are so many manufacturers, colors and designs. For me, a separate wow was laminate on the wall, I saw it live - it looks very comfortable and warm, the feeling of wood trim, plus taking care of it is simple, it will not peel off as wallpaper and can be washed. Thank you for the many options for decorating the laminate - I drew my inspiration and I really liked how the gray laminate looks on the floor!
I read the article with interest. Available and clearly stated. Human language that pleases. The texts about the repair and construction works are not always written so narrow-minded in the good sense of the word. It seems to me that everyone who is going to lay laminate should read it and then we will not have sad stories using this coating.
First of all, the laminate is not exactly the item of the repair budget, where it is worth saving, as the author correctly noted. Here the miser pays not just twice, but much more. If there is no money for QUALITY, expensive laminate - use a different floor covering, do not “chase for cheapness”, as Pushkin wrote. A good laminate will last for a long time and will look decent. And cheap and erased, and bubbles will go. And from someone heard - began to exfoliate. I’m not talking about the inability to withstand a rearrangement of furniture or when something heavy falls.
I liked the stylish gray interiors, which are given attention in the article. In general, it was interesting to read about design solutions. The only wish is that the photos more fit the text. And then we read about gray with green accents, and in the photo we see a gray floor and a blue wall.
Always considered laminate flooring exclusively. After reading the article I discovered this material for myself in a new way. It turns out it can be used as a wall covering and ceiling.Under the rule of stereotypes, it is difficult to imagine laminate somewhere else besides the floor, and I would hardly ever use it anywhere else except as a floor covering, but I expanded my horizons a little. In my opinion there is a mass of more optimal in terms of price and quality of materials for finishing walls and ceilings, and laminate is the best solution for floors, as it has good characteristics. For the rest, how to use laminate is a matter of taste for everyone. and if someone likes to use laminate on the walls or as an element of decor, then I see no reason why not to do so.