I want a chio floor.
I know this is not encouraged by many people, but we're really on a budget, so we had only three choices:
(1) Sell my kidney to hack and lay flooring for living, bedrooms, toilets and kitchen.
(2) Do overlay for living and bedrooms. Toilets and kitchen to hack and lay.
(3) Toilets and kitchen to hack and lay, and then just stick to the original flooring left by the previous owner.
Out of the 3, #2 seems like the most sensible option. Not that the original flooring is reaaaaally that horrible, but the flooring's really yellowish and I couldn't live with that.
And since we're doing overlay, we decided to go for some awesome looking laminate to work towards the scandi-inspired look! Last last weekend (very late entry I knowz), we dropped by the Home Planner 2013 exhibition at Expo to take a look and confirmed our flooring supplier.
Wood Culture is a subsidiary of Hafary - which is a 老字号... shouldn't be too bad right? At least won't wind up for the next ten, twenty years can liao.
The designs were really pretty! And could feel that the quality was really good too. Nice and sturdy. The salesperson, Kent, set the sample on fire which shocked the shit out of the kids standing next to us lol. We were only semi-impressed because they weren't the first flooring exhibits we went to, and every person did that fire-setting stunt. XD Before Wood Culture, we went to Kronotex (nice lady!) and Oriqin (never hear before). Both weren't bad actually. The prices were pretty close and the laminate quality weren't very much different too (I'm not an expert la). I guess I'm a sucker because the 'Hafary' name subconsciously won me over plus I already fell in love with one of the planks (hehe). The laminate manufacturer is Berry Floor from Belgium, and it's water-resistant, scratch-proof, and fire-resistant.
The salesperson, Kent, talks way too fast lol.
The colour is Arctic Walnut, and the photo doesn't do justice to the colour. This is from the more expensive range, so I'm only using this range for the living/dining/foyer area. Will pick a different range for bedrooms!
