Instead of the usual dusty concrete interlocking vinyl floor tiles make an inexpensive floor surface. They come in a wide range of colours and surface patterns so its easy to find one that suits your particular home. They’re usually also easy to fit so that you don’t always even need a professional floor contractor – they can be loose laid or adhered to the ground with a suitable flooring adhesive.

Interlocking vinyl floor tiles are perfect for garages or uneven floors

UK Flooring Online are a web-based retailer of affordable garage floor tiles. Their Flexatile product is a 5mm thick pvc interlocking tile – ideal for use in garages. Installing a vinyl garage floor can brighten the room, make it a more comfortable place to be, but also impress your mates!

The 5mm Flexatile is supplied in two colours, grey and black – making it easy to match with existing interior styles. This new vinyl floor tile is perfect for commercial applications that don’t receive extremely heavy traffic. Vinyl is hard wearing and keeps its appearance for a very long time, making it a good choice for people who want a permanent floor solution.

Vinyl Floor Tile is Red and Black in Car Garage

The addition of a new slate effect rubber floor tile to the rubber floor tile range suggests that UK Flooring want to offer more choice to their customers and become the place to visit online for rubber floor tiles. The versatility of rubber flooring solutions is being noted by consumers and architects alike. Their flexability lies in the array of colours and style available and at a relatively reasonable price compared to new laminate and vinyl floor products.

“I’m taking over the world one downstairs loo at a time,” said Louise Wakefield of Beware the Moon, the new design house she created in partnership with her dad. She contends that the feature wall has had its day: “Now I want to see my designs in completely papered tiny rooms, nice and busy, like wallpaper should be.”

Flooring plays a crucial role in small-space decorating. Long, narrow, striped or patterned rubber floor tiles can lengthen a hallway, and wide stripes make small  rooms look more spacious. Something on the lines of the modern classic studded rubber floor tiles (500mm x 500mm, £8.99; 085451 24 24 10, ukflooringonline.com). The truly adventurous looking to add sparkle to a dingy room should check out the new hammered-metal briquettes from De Ferranti in glowing gold (10cm x 30cm, £499 per sq metre; 020 7384 4424, deferranti.com). Or, perhaps, a silver floor in engineered oak from the Salsa collection by Tarkett (Silver Star, £60 per sq metre; 01622 854151, tarkett-floors.com).

In 2010 we will see a lot of wood flooring but instead of it being laminate it will be real hardwood flooring.

Going green will also feature very highly this year as a trend to follow so expect to see lots of cork and bamboo flooring in the shops over the coming months as people become more eco conscious. People who do have wood flooring but want to be more friendly to the environment may want to opt for the thinner hardwood flooring saving around 20 per cent of the cost in the process.

Very dark stained or almost white wood flooring are the most popular options in the current market.

Hand-scraped flooring is becoming the natural choice for home-owners who are looking for wood flooring with added texture. Even Bamboo flooring is becoming available with a hand-scraped texture.

Because wooden flooring has taken off so well in recent months there is now a lot more choice and variety available to suit everyone’s taste. With the success of iPhone applications, there are now even applications to help you decide which flooring would best suit your needs.

Rubber slate tiles are also proving very popular in homes as they are easy to keep clean, cheaper than the wood alternatives and warmer underfoot.

To celebrate St Patricks Day, UK Flooring Online are offering a massive 17% discount on all their green flooring products.

The sale starts on Wednesday (St Patricks Day) and runs right through to Sunday (March 21st).

UK Flooring Online are flooring specialists who offer a variety of flooring options including studded rubber floor tiles, vinyl flooring and tile adhesive.

If you are looking for flooring for your home or business this could be a great time to buy and save yourself the equivalent price of VAT.

For more information and to pick up a bargain visit www.ukflooringonline.com

Don’t believe us, take the Concordia International School Shanghai (CISS) as an example of leading environmental building and rubber flooring.

The school recently completed a new six story education complex. The amazing design of the 129,000 sq.-ft. facility was the design efforts of architecture firm Perkins Eastman who as part of the design build wanted sustainability as a top priority.

The school wanted a building that was not only as a source of energy efficiency but also an environmental education for the students. To achieve this the architects incorporated geothermal technology for heating and cooling across the entire campus, and placed a model of the underground system in the entrance of the school.

As well as a whole variety of other facilities such as green roof top gardens they opted for other eco-friendly materials include daylighting, natural ventilation, and naturally-occurring materials such as bamboo and rubber flooring.

Both bamboo and rubber flooring are great sources of natural flooring. While bamboo can be quite costly, a cheaper alternative for rooms such as bathrooms and bedrooms, or for workplace environments such as offices, factories, gyms or warehouses is rubber flooring. With the increase in demand the colour options available have also increased. It’s no longer just a bland grey option that’s available to you but sexy colours and studded varieties.

For full Shanghai story read

http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/design/news/e3i662cd5cc93e73343d25c2af966ed79eb

Architectural company, Gensler, recently produced the EcoCabin (perfect for cub scouts). A cabin-in-a-box solution using… wait for it…shipping containers. Yup, the shipping containers have been turned into small buildings to populate the LA boy scouts movement. Ensuring that the boisterous lads didn’t slip over or ruin the flooring, the automatic solution for their flooring needs was rubber flooring. A long lasting, attractive flooring option, the company realised that it would prove to be low maintenance and long lasting.

And it’s not just the Americans that appreciate good vinyl flooring. Townends estate agent down in Hounslow have recently won a contract to refurbish a new development of high end apartments. According to website My Introducer while the agents opted for neutral carpeting for the lounge and bedrooms, the immediate option for kitchens and bathrooms was vinyl flooring.

Gyms have also stepped up their game by introducing rubber flooring to their establishments. The main reason for the increased uptake of vinyl flooring is down to cost and ease of use. Not only is rubber flooring extremely cost effective but it’s also durable and easy to keep clean making it the ideal flooring option for anywhere that has constant foot traffic.

The tiles have the look of slate yet they aren’t cold or rough to the touch.

The slate rubber tiles are ideal for the use on any bathroom floor large or small and are perfect for use as floor tiles in the kitchen. Being made from rubber means that they are easily wiped clean and a lot more versatile and hygenic than carpet.

The slate effect rubber tiles offer a realistic natural looking finish with the cost-effectiveness and durability that rubber provides.

For more information visit www.ukflooringonline.com