Looking for a Home Refresh? How to Design a Room Around Your LVT Flooring

If you’re looking to refresh your home, you don’t have to spend heaps on renovations. Small switches, like changes in furniture, fabrics or flooring are super impactful on the eye, while being easy on the pocket. Flooring, and specifically Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) flooring, often anchors an interior design update. Its versatility in suiting any space, stylish design options and practicality make it the perfect foundation for your room refresh.

The Importance of Starting with the Floor

When redesigning a room, most professionals recommend starting with flooring. From a practical standpoint, it makes sense to get the flooring down before bringing in softer elements like paint and furnishings. From a design perspective, it makes sense too. LVT flooring offers a broad range of patterns, colours and textures. Whether you choose wood or stone, black or bleached, herringbone or classic, the flooring you pick will influence the overall direction of your room. And it’s far easier to match colours and fabrics to your luxury flooring than the other way around.

Understanding Your LVT Flooring

With so much flooring to choose from, how do you choose what’s right for you? First, think about the style of your home and its location. Rustic, more secluded properties often suit stone or aged wood effect flooring, while houses in more suburban, populous areas might better match warmer more modern wood effect. Your style of flooring will be dictated by the room. Stone effect LVT flooring is a popular choice for bathrooms and kitchens, while wood effect looks fabulous in living rooms. The colour and pattern you choose will set the tone for the rest of your room, so consider your overall aesthetic. Are you going for modern, cosy, minimalist? Think: house; room; aesthetic, when choosing your LVT flooring – this will inspire later furniture and decor choices.

How to Design a Room Layout Around LVT Flooring

When planning a room layout with LVT flooring, there’s more to consider than first meets the eye. Think carefully about the orientation of your LVT planks. Planks parallel to walls is a timeless choice, but planks at a 45-degree angle add dynamic visual interest and can make a small space appear larger. Meanwhile herringbone or chevrons add texture, warmth and a sense of sophistication. Noting the direction of light sources and laying planks that match is a trick that takes your flooring design to the next level. 

Bring flow to your home by running floor planks from room to room. This helps to achieve a connected sense of cohesion. Deliberately switching the orientation of planks, using breakers or simply changing your style of LVT flooring in different sections of a space is a clever way to zone it. 

LVT Flooring Ideas for Different Rooms

LVT works beautifully in any interior space, but certain rooms have different demands. Due to its durability and water resistance, LVT is an ideal solution for high-traffic, moisture-exposed areas like kitchens, bathrooms and hallways. In these spaces, stone or concrete effect tiles provide a natural, clean look without the coldness of the real material. One smart LVT bathroom idea is to contrast your flooring with your bathroom suite – choose a light tile with dark units, or the reverse, for a space that pops. Neutrals can make a smaller bathroom feel larger, and – counterintuitively – a larger pattern design with fewer joins will look less busy and more relaxing in a cosy cloakroom.

Living rooms, while also high-traffic, are spaces where comfort and style rule. Wood as a style of LVT flooring for living rooms is enduringly popular. The warmth of rich oak, ash or spruce effect creates an inviting, cosy space. Add textured parquet or herringbone for more depth and sophistication.

Bedrooms and study rooms have less foot traffic, offering greater flexibility to choose LVT flooring based on looks rather than durability. Light, neutral shades feel uplifting in more private spaces, while darker hues bring luxurious ambience. When debating whether to choose study room carpet or LVT, remember, LVT is office chair friendly, providing practical, not just aesthetic advantages.  

How to Choose the Right Decor for Your LVT Style

Here are some useful rules when embarking on a room refresh with LVT flooring:

1. Pick your luxury LVT flooring.  The obvious place to start. What’s the vibe of your room? Choose lighter, natural materials for a modern/minimalist space, and rich, warmer woods with added texture for rooms that are more traditional or rustic.
2. Coordinate (or contrast) your colours. Light floors look smart when contrasted with dark furniture, and airy when paired with lighter fabrics, while dark floors benefit from opposing colours to help them pop. Neutral flooring can be dialled up to be either cozy or cool depending on your colour choices.
3. Add finishing touches. Layering rugs will add softness and help to define zones, while cushions, throws and plants are a classic way to introduce accent colours and break up too many neutrals. Choose warm lighting for earthy tones or cool lighting for more neutral gray or stone LVTs. 

Why Luvanto Has an LVT Option for Every Style and Every Room

Luvanto’s exceptional range of flooring styles, from ultra-modern to rustic and traditional, help you to elevate any room effortlessly. Whether your space is suited to natural stone or tile effects, or beautiful wood effects ranging in colour and texture, we have exactly what you need. Our high-quality, stylish floorings are all durable and waterproof, and – best of all – come with a Life-Proof Protection and a Luvanto Lifetime Guarantee. 

Ready to refresh? Order some samples to experience the quality and craftsmanship of our designs for yourself. Visit our website to start your stylish transformation today.