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Launching this week is the new Senso range of flooring from Gerflor; a PVC ready-to-install, plank flooring that really does look remarkably like wood. It is incredibly similar  to  top-brand luxury woodplank finishes, but costs less than half the price, and requires no professional installation. Available in five different ranges, including Senso Rustic (pictured), these planks are the epitome of luxury for less. www.sensobygerflor.com or  01926 401500.

Turn the pages of any glossy magazine and you’ll see that this season’s flooring trend is for a wider plank effect, and Forbo Flooring’s new Novilon range incorporates this perfectly. The Viva Fusion flooring (pictured, £15.99 per square metre) is great for adding a warm, traditional feel to the home. For more information or to find your nearest stockist please contact Forbo customer service on 0800 731 2369 or visit www.forbo-flooring.co.uk.

Posners is one of London’s leading independent flooring stores, boasting three generations of trade experience. It genuinely does have something for every room and everyone, stocking carpets, vinyls, laminates, and hardwoods, and what’s more, all at trade prices.

New to the store for spring is the Admonter range of extra wide thermo-treated Oak planks.

As flooring companies go, The Natural Flooring Company has to be up there with the best of them. A small, family-run business, it supplies a wealth of quality natural materials including coir, sisal, seagrass, jute and wool from leading manufacturers, and couples this with a first class installation service.

Twenty years experience in the industry allows The Natural Flooring Company to undertake all specialist fitting requirements. It can also supply hand-made rugs and runners in any width, length or fibre, and with any border, delivered direct to your door.

Having started its life in London’s East End over 120 years ago, Abbotts is a company with some heavy weight history and experience. Still very much a family business, this reputable flooring company continues to operate from its original site, but now occupies an impressive 400 metres square of showroom space, stretched over two floors.

Its team can offer a full measuring and estimating service for all types of flooring.

Putting good use to any of those remnant bits of carpet lying around the house, Easybind from Stairrods is a handy new way to bind rugs and runners at home with the use of only a simple hot glue gun.

Available in 23 varying colours of rope–style edging, Easybind can be attached to the edge of any length of carpet to create complementary stair runners or rugs for the home. Far cheaper than sending off carpet for professional bounding and over-locking, and far less time to wait for the end product,  Easybind can be attached and completed at home in a matter of minutes.

Competitively priced carpets are available all year round from Gilt Edge Carpets, so it rarely needs sales. A family company with a wealth of knowledge, it provides free advice and an expert planning, estimating and fitting service. Choose from wool, velvets, Seagrass, Jute – even Bamboo or Paper. It can also offer Vinyl, Lino, Rubber or Laminate flooring at prices starting from as little as £10 per square metre.

If you've had your finger off the pulse, bamboo is in.  So it's a case of right place, right time for Simply Bamboo. Working closely with its manufacturers, Simply Bamboo ensures a colour consistency, standard of product and some of the lowest prices around. Floorboards start from £15.95 per square metre (excluding VAT), and readers can claim a 10 per cent discount across the entire range.

It is amazing what a difference your choice of flooring can make to the overall look and feel of your home. Whilst carpet will make large rooms feel cosier, wood flooring really opens up the space in smaller abodes. A great place to go for wood flooring, The Natural Wood Floor Company offers an unrivalled range of 160 different types of wood, and it can offer regular deals on job lots of wood flooring.

Whether you are flicking though the pages of a glossy magazine, or scanning an estate agents’ window, your eye is inevitably drawn to the properties with wooden floors.

Established quite recently in 2004, F.E.E.T International has quickly made its mark as a source for discounted designer bathrooms, worktops and tiles, a formula so popular that it has recently opened a new showroom in Battersea.

The second branch of this dynamic company, this provides a centrally based showroom filled with top quality Massage Baths, Showers, and contemporary bathroom suites – all sold at up to 70 per cent less than the market average.

Stone and porcelain floor tiles are all very well in hotter climates, but they can be pretty chilly in the seemingly sunless Britain. Luckily the Siesta Cork Tile Company is on hand with an alternative. Importing from Spain and Portugal, it offers a huge range of Cork Tiles – environmentally friendly, warm and insulating to boot. Whilst ‘Siesta’ waxed tiles prove a hit with allergy sufferers, ‘Pinpanel’ self-adhesive tiles are useful for notice board areas.

Watch out for the Roger Oates Clearance Room Sale starting this Saturday (23 June) where you can find up to 50 per cent off Wilton runners, 100 per cent wool flat weave rugs, fabric lengths and cushions. The discounted collection includes sample stock, remnant lengths and discontinued lines and represents exceptional savings. This Pisa Red runner is approx. 60cm wide and is reduced from £89 to just £45 per metre. The sale ends 7 July.