Laminate flooring guides and reviews
Standard laminate is built around an HDF fiberboard core, and HDF is essentially compressed paper. Soak it and the planks swell, edges curl, and the…
Walk through any independent flooring retailer in the Southwest or Mountain West and you’ll see Vista-branded laminate stacked next to Pergo and Mohawk RevWood. Vista…
Walk into a regional flooring outlet across the Sun Belt and Parkay-branded boxes stack alongside Mohawk and Shaw at noticeably lower price points. Parkay laminate…
Wide planks dominate showroom displays, but narrow boards still win plenty of projects. Narrow laminate flooring typically runs 3 to 5 inches wide and 36…
The mid-century kitchen with black-and-white checkerboard, the 1970s den with terrazzo speckle, the diner-style booth with linoleum patterning — these floors are having a moment…
The single biggest jump in laminate over the past decade was not in core construction or click systems; it was in the photograph. Laminate flooring…
Standard laminate planks run 5 to 7 inches wide. A jump to 9, 10, or 12 inches transforms a room. The same square footage of…
Walk into any big-box store and you will see laminate stacked at 7 mm, 8 mm, 10 mm, and 12 mm. Most homeowners default to…
The light, weathered Scandinavian aesthetic that took over Pinterest in 2018 is still driving floor selections in 2026, and laminate has finally caught up to…
A laminate plank should sit flat and tight to its neighbors for the entire 20-year warranty. When the edges start curling up, the problem is…
