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But in the quest for a personal style, it is important that you are aware that the floor does much room for character and atmosphere.

– It is encouraging is that more people are now choosing floor early in the renovation process. That will create a style, you should find the first floor, said Bjorg Owren, Managing Director of Information Office of the color and interior (ifi.no).

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All suppliers of wood floors have a large selection. It is therefore up to you to make the choices that covers your specific needs.

Do you have an old floor you wish to renew, there are several possibilities. You can choose whether you want oil, stain, paint, stooping or paint the floor.

While paint provides a wide color, and the other treatments a transparent result. All possibilities can fulfill the desire for a somewhat old mark, or rustic and greyish appearance.

Using stain, the floor painted not to wear away the stain. Three coats are needed to get a wear layer.

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Something to have in mind when choosing flooring is the flooring with varnish and paint is easier to maintain.

Many are afraid to choose paint and go instead for oiled floors. This is because they want a natural expression of the floor, without a glossy film.

But today you mat flooring coatings where you avoid “paint skin.”

These polishes make marginal differences from the oiled floor.

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– Paint and varnish seals the pores of the wood and therefore makes the floors easy to keep clean. Do you know you have a lot of traffic and activity at home, or want easy cleaning, you should take this into account, says Owren.

Floor Paint can be mixed in many colors and is opaque. Leaching of floors give an off-white or patinated look, which accentuates the beautiful natural tree.

A bent floors shall be treated either with floor soap, floor oil or water based paint.

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– Floor Oil’s bases and can be tinted to the desired color in the color trades. One has to take into account what type of wood to treat. The color of the oak is quite different from the pine, says Per Lund Nielsen, chief technology officer of Scanox.

If you have a an old floor that you wish to renew with a transparent treatment, remove all old processing ground off.

All wood floors can be sanded, whether solid wood or parquet, and as good as new when they are cut.

– The freshly sanded floor can be treated with the desired color and method. There are oppstrøksprøver and color chart for the different treatments in the paint shop, he said.

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Bjorg Owren recalls that one should think carefully about who you entrust any sanding job.

– There is a job for experts. If you’re unlucky, it could be ugly tracks in the floor that you do not get removed, she warns.

– When the floor stained or colored oil is applied, the unevenness amplified. Whoever shall grind for the first time should not exercise on living room floor. We have seen many examples where people have overestimated their own abilities in floor sanding. (ANB)