Black Floor Tiles vs. Carpet: Which to Choose for Your Home?

Nowadays people have paid more attention on flooring while decorating their houses. In the traditional way, carpet could be expressive for individualized home decoration due to its various patterns and colors. Meanwhile, black floor tiles have become a type of new flooring materials that has been popular among young people all over the world. As the following, let us take a look at which type of flooring materials would be a better choice for your home decoration.

Flooring Black Tiles and Carpet

Traditional flooring usually comes with carpets because it provides a comfortable touch and diverse styles. Houseowners in an increasing number have realized dust mites are harmful to our health since they could breed in carpets. Moreover, mites are less likely to be completely removed from carpets with vacuum. To avoid using cleanser with chemical compositions, many customers choose not to floor their home with carpets. With contracted style becoming popular, a black culture has attracted more and more houseowners. Black floor tiles represent this new trend in construction. As a symbol of conciseness, black floor tile is leading a new style and make it well-known among numerous customers all over the world.

Carpets

Durability

Carpets could last for a while if keep vacuuming regularly. However, carpets could become less soft because of dust accumulation. Without a regular cleaning routine, carpets would be the heaven of dirt and dust mites.

Cost

Some carpets could be pricey because of its artificial procedure and materials. Real silk carpet, for instance, known as “Fiber Queen,” might take a year for a finished product of 6 square feet. The high labor cost could make the price 1.5 times higher than usual.

Effect

Carpets could bring an incredible visual effect due to its colorful patterns. In addition, carpets could create a 3D visual splendor that drives you into another visionary space.

Cleaning & care

A regular cleaning routine should be needed for carpets since the texture and fiber could easily provoke dirt and stick with dust. Vacuuming might not be enough because dust mites should be killed by some chemical cleanser that could harm our health as well.

Installation

Installing carpets requires an absolutely flat and smooth base. Laying on the floor with dent and bump will make seam mark on carpets. The direction of carpets should be unified and consistent, to ensure the tufting and patterns all go with the same way. Wrong direction could lead to visual chromatic aberration.

Black Floor Tiles

Durability

Under high compression and high temperature, black floor tiles are made to resist corrosion, friction, heat, and so on. All these characteristics indicate that black floor tiles could last longer than other flooring materials.

Cost

Since all the materials are ordinary natural stones, nothing will raise the cost during manufacturing. Additionally, producing a mixture of natural stones takes less effort and labor than weaving a piece of carpet. Therefore, cost in manufacturing black tiles will be slightly low.

Effect

While representing simplicity, black floor tiles give a new visual effect of elegance, dignity, and aestheticism. Black tiles have various series and patterns, such as matte finished, polished, wood-like, black slate, and so on. Each type has its own style and unique decoration effect for your home renovation.

Cleaning & care

Owing to a low water absorption less than 5%, black floor tiles would not require regular cleaning. Low water absorption means high density of the material, so that it is less likely to get dirty. Cleaning and care take little effort since stains and smudges can hardly emerge on the surface.

Installation

Installation would be easy and convenient because no base requirement would be needed for black floor tiles. It may require personnel with expertise to install black tiles for the sake of spotless installation quality. The most outstanding advantage is easy fitting in almost all kinds of rooms like living room, kitchen, bedroom, and so on.

Conclusion

From above description, it is obvious that black floor tiles surpass carpets in most aspects such as durability, cleaning, maintenance, installation, and cost. In addition, a new trend has become popular that “black culture” symbolizes simplicity in home renovation. This new trend has been spreading to most countries around the world. We have gained a supreme reputation on sincere service and quality control.

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