If you’re looking for an easy-care material for a room in your home, vinyl vs laminate flooring is a popular comparison. Both can be simple to care for and they offer the chance to get a look you like ...

The flooring you choose for your home is a key determining factor of your aesthetic. Hardwood is great for traditional, cottagecore, and midcentury modern interiors; tile emphasizes a Tuscan or ...

Laminate flooring can resemble almost anything: stone, tile, or wood. That’s because it’s composed of a photograph sandwiched between a dense fiberboard base and a clear plastic protective top layer.

Engineered flooring and laminate flooring are both cost-effective, durable alternatives to solid hardwood flooring. Engineered flooring is somewhat closer in appearance to solid hardwood due to its ...

Plastic laminate first came to prominence back in the 1940s and 50s as a popular kitchen countertop material. But by the late-1980s it was beginning to fall out of favor as homeowners began replacing ...

Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...