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vinyl flooring is now considered a trend. When it was first introduced to the US market, it was highly praised for affordability, durability, ease of maintenance, and uncomplicated installation. Now it's evolved to become highly designed, with the ability to mimic almost any surface.
Forget memories you have of sheet vinyl flooring because there's no such thing anymore as a flat image. Instead, today's technology gives us micro beveling and embossing to add depth, design, and textured looks to wood, stone, and tile images. Matte finishes are also a thing of the past; it's all about shine now.
Textures are significant, as they put the finishing touches on a floor. Technology has given vinyl flooring manufacturers the ability to create these looks with machinery. So, now you can get wire-brushed, hand-scraped, distressed, or embossed-in register looks.
Hand Scraping has long, ingrained scrapes and high variation, while wire-brushed has subtle scratches. Distressed textures feature cuts, burns, knots to give floors an aged look. Finally, embossed-in-register (EIR) provides the floor with an ultra-realistic appearance creating marks that match the wood-look image underneath. It even has the feeling of the real thing!