As we perform our annual Creative Floors year-end review, it’s clear that the top flooring trends 2025 offers will continue to be relevant for some time. Today’s homeowners choose floors that are durable, easy to maintain, and flexible for a multitude of lifestyles, resulting in truly timeless selections.
The flooring styles central Florida homeowners love most are those that offer an upscale, luxurious look and feel while meeting the needs of busy families, pet owners, long-term homeowners, and those who plan to turn their home into an investment property.
Best Flooring Looks 2025 & Flooring Styles Homeowners Love
Let’s take a look at trending flooring options Florida homeowners went for in a big way in 2025.
We’ll provide extra information on each floor type’s pros, along with considerations when deciding whether it’s the right choice for your home or a specific living space.
1. Wide Plank Hardwood: Beautiful Option For Many Applications
Hardwood flooring remains a top flooring choice, and with good reason. When installed in the right locations and maintained well, hardwood flooring can last for centuries. It’s also considered one of the most luxurious flooring options available.
In the hardwood flooring category, wide planks are a favorite option. There are several reasons why.
Wide planks:
- Provide a larger canvas for the wood’s natural beauty to shine.
- Mean fewer visible seams between planks, leading to a cleaner, overall wood pattern aesthetic.
- It can make smaller rooms feel more spacious and cohesive.
However, notice we mentioned “installed in the right locations”? Hardwood planks are susceptible to swelling, cracking, warping, and mold or mildew when exposed to long-term or excessive moisture. So, they’re not always the best choice for our climate.
Their softer, porous nature also makes them more susceptible to scratches and dings.
Keep in mind that hardwood floors more easily reveal:
- Scratches from pet paws and claws.
- Discolorations from sun fading, spills that weren’t cleaned up right away, and swelling, warping, or splitting damage from fluctuating humidity levels.
- Mold or mildew after a flood or a latent plumbing leak.
If you live in your home part-time or it’s an investment property, natural hardwood may not be the best option. It all depends on your current lifestyle and long-term goals. If you have your heart set on hardwood, keep an open mind and ask your flooring pros about engineered hardwood flooring, which is one of the best representations of hardwood because it uses a thin veneer of real wood on its top layer. However, heavy-duty protective coatings keep it more resistant to water, pets, and high-traffic wear and tear.
If you decide to move forward with installing genuine hardwood floors, it’s essential to work with local, professional flooring experts to ensure your natural hardwood investment makes sense for your home’s occupants, location, design, and lifestyle. Wood-look tile might turn out to be a better choice.
2. Tile Flooring: Popular Flooring Casselberry Prefers
There’s a reason why tile has continued to be used in Central Florida homes for decades. First and foremost, tile flooring is one of the most durable and easy-to-maintain flooring options on the market. Regardless of whether you choose ceramic or porcelain, you know the floors can stand up to significant wear and tear, year after year.
In addition to durability and ease of maintenance, tile floors offer seemingly endless style options through their variety of colors and patterns – and that includes tiles that do a remarkable job of replicating natural stone and wood flooring.
If you love the look of hardwood, we highly recommend wood-look tiles, which do an incredible job of mimicking natural wood grains and patterns. Wood-look tiles offer all the durable, low-maintenance benefits of hardwood without the vulnerability or risk of natural wood products. They’re a perfect option for busy households – especially those with young children or pets – without having to sacrifice luxurious style and hardwood’s natural beauty.
3. Vinyl Plank Flooring: Among The Best Flooring Looks in 2025
Speaking of luxurious styles that mimic natural materials, vinyl plank flooring is also listed among the best flooring choices in 2025. Like tile, vinyl plank flooring designs replicate the appearance of wood and stone. They are also considered durable, low-maintenance flooring options. Like most products, the key to finding vinyl plank flooring you’ll love lies in getting the best materials and installation quality.
Always work with local flooring showroom representatives when researching vinyl flooring options for your home. While big-box and online offerings may be tempting, they simply don’t offer the same level of product or installation quality as experienced, independently owned flooring showrooms in Florida.
Higher-end vinyl floor products are worth the investment because they:
- Look more like natural wood or stone products than cheaper versions.
- They are more durable.
- Have far better warranties when installed by licensed flooring professionals.
Compared with tile planks, vinyl planks tend to be:
- Slightly quieter.
- A bit softer due to the subflooring materials.
- More of an acoustic buffer (although you should always let flooring pros know if acoustic buffering is an overall goal for your household).
Scheduling an in-home consultation is a great way to learn more about flooring tiles, tile planks, and vinyl plank flooring options, and to see samples in the spaces where they’d be installed.
4. Laminate Floors: Another Top Choice for Hard Surface Flooring Fans
Laminate floors are another option for homeowners who appreciate the look of hardwood but want a floor that is more resistant to moisture and stains. In addition to being resilient, laminate floors are typically more budget-friendly than engineered hardwood or wood-look tiles. This makes them an excellent option for younger families who don’t plan to stay in their home long-term, or for those who plan to use the home as an investment property.
Just like wood-look tiles or luxury vinyl planks, laminate floors are designed to replicate an extensive range of wood species. They are also available in wide-plank options. We recommend limiting your search to waterproof laminate options, as their non-waterproof counterparts don’t hold up as well to long-term moisture exposure (for instance, in bathrooms, kitchens, laundry rooms, or rooms adjacent to the pool/spa area of the yard).
5. Carpet Flooring: Luxurious Style & Feel
Carpeting hasn’t gone out of style, despite how it might look online or in your favorite home improvement shows. That said, homeowners in the Casselberry area know that the best carpet flooring options offer similar benefits to their hard-surface counterparts.
This is why we break carpets into two categories:
- Plush, high-shag options: High-shag or high-profile carpets have a soft, dense profile that feels wonderful on bare feet and lends itself to traditional and transitional design styles. However, they are also harder to keep clean and are quick to show spills, wear from high-traffic areas, and paw or shoe prints.
High- and denser-shag carpets are also more vulnerable to damp and can harbor musty smells if they aren’t kept consistently clean and dry. For that reason, plush carpeting is perfect for formal living rooms, lesser-used spaces, or households with little foot traffic. - Lower-shag, cut, or looped options: For higher-traffic areas of the home or households with children and/or pets, we recommend lower-shag carpets, including cut, looped, and cut-looped options. In addition to being easier to maintain and more durable, these carpets are considered a better hypoallergenic flooring option than high-shag carpets, which provide more space for particulates to accumulate.
If you love the look and feel of carpet, but worry about durability or its ability to mask the occasional lapse in vacuuming cycles or short-term stains, we can show you beautiful textured, looped, neutral multi-tonal, and other options that help carpet look beautiful for many years to come.
And, of course, don’t forget that you can use stylish custom area rugs to provide the softer, carpeted appeal you enjoy with added mobility, design versatility, and the ability to change them out as desired.
Let Creative Floors Show You the Best Flooring Looks for 2025 & 2026
We’re excited to know you’re learning all you can about the top flooring trends that will stand the test of time. The Creative Floors showroom has been the most popular flooring destination for Casselberry-area residents for nearly 30 years.
Come on by and visit us in our showroom or schedule an in-home consultation to learn about the flooring options you’ll love the most as you get ready to revamp your home in 2026. Our exceptional flooring design team will ensure you have the perfect, timeless option that honors today’s trends while remaining relevant decades down the road.
