Bathrooms With Hardwood Floors

The room also offers a freestanding tub and a vessel sink.
Bathrooms with hardwood floors. Modern primary bathroom featuring white walls and ceiling along with hardwood flooring and hardwood sink counter. Has this all changed with new treatments available for wood flooring. Unless properly treated and sealed by professionals or prefinished specifically for a bathroom floor a wooden floor can develop moisture problems especially under the toilet. Installing wood flooring in bathrooms used to be considered a big no no.
It is durable low maintenance long lasting and has a beautiful natural look that is prized by many homeowners. However it does have issues when used in moist or humid environments such as bathrooms. Splashing standing water and even high humidity would damage and warp the material making it useless in a short amount of time. Showers in the morning warm baths for the kids in the evening bathtub overflows spills and splashes can severely damage the floor.
Many people now argue that polyurethane coatings and prefinished hardwood flooring is far more resistant to water damage. Modern primary bathroom offering a walk in shower room and a large vessel sink set on the hardwood counter matching the hardwood flooring. So using hardwood flooring in a bathroom will sooner or later force you to deal with mold and mildew. Moisture kills hardwood and a bathroom is probably the most humid area of the entire home.
Hardwood is a better bathroom flooring choice than say carpet but it can still be very problematic. If you are prone to get allergies and are sensitive to mold you should think twice before using a.