Buyer's Guide To Eco Flooring

Hard Flooring Options
Soft Flooring Options

When it comes to environmentally friendly options underfoot, it's no longer a choice between aesthetics and eco credentials - you can now have both, as our selection for every room proves. By Lyndsey Culf

Fast-Growing Renewable Material

Antique Vertical bamboo flooring, £17.95 per sqm, also available in Natural Vertical (£15.95 per sqm)and Carbonised Vertical (£16.95 per sqm), The Bamboo Flooring Company

Sustainably Sourced

Oak Hampshire planks in engineered oak with a golden tone, from £54.82 per sqm, Kährs

Biodegradable, Recyclable, Insulating

Desert Gold Textured Oak flooring in solid oak, £147 per sqm, also available in a range of colours, wide board planks and in four lengths (150, 180, 210 and 240cm), Junckers

Renewable Wood

Maple laminate flooring with anti-microbial properties, £18.99 per sqm, also available in six other laminate designs, Pergo

Perfect For Period Properties

Reclaimed Terracotta tiles, £99.79 per sq metre, available in three sizes, Fired Earth

Salvaged Stone

Bar de Montpellier reclaimed tiles, £594 per sqm, Lapicida

Act As A Heat Store

Oriental Basalt tiles with a honed finish, £63.68 per sqm, available in five sizes and three other finishes, Devon Stone

Recycled Material

Ston-ker Trafic Cemento Acero tiles in 95 per cent recycled rectified porcellanato in grey, £64.50 per sqm, also available in dark grey and light beige, Porcelanosa