LIBRA FLOORING BLOG POSTS
Great tips and trends for guesthouse renovations!
Cape Town is one of the most sought-after short-term rental destinations in the world and a great place from which to operate a holiday home for rent A lot of guesthouse owners who have [...]
Flooring and carpet trends in 2024
As always certain trends prevail as we go into each new year. This time last year we wrote that the flooring and carpet trends for 2023 would pretty much align with international lifestyle trends [...]
Make your home family, friends and foreigners fit for summer!
Yes, it’s that time of the year when we in the Cape prepare for an invasion of either those we love or, as landlords of rental holiday homes, welcome visitors from out of town [...]
Beautify and fortify your rental holiday home for summer!
With the summer on its way and Cape Town expecting a bumper holiday season Landlords of short-term rental properties and Capetonians looking to make some extra money over this time are starting to get [...]
Installation of luxury wood laminate floors – Sea Point apartment
We were appointed to supply and install a luxury wood laminate floor specifically from our Designer range ‘Treescapes’ - colour Umkhaya, in a classic Sea Point apartment for one of our elderly clients. She [...]
Engineered Wood – What makes it so special?
It has been around for a very long time and predated the Vinyl and Laminated floors that we so commonly see today. Rich in texture and very beautiful, Solid Wood flooring has adorned the [...]
Great winter renovation ideas for lifestyles in 2023
We certainly are living in an ever-changing world. Since COVID-19 have we become far more aware of the importance of our environment having seen the differences in nature when we were not so invasive [...]
Choose rugs for winter warmth perfectly paired with your floors!
One of the very best ways to introduce an element of warmth to every room is by laying beautiful winter rugs wherever you can – and why is this? Rugs look great – Rugs have [...]
A boost for flooring and carpet buyers when finances deck you!
Without a doubt, most South Africans right now are feeling the financial pinch. With ever-increasing energy prices and an ever-decreasing rand against foreign currencies, things are simply getting more expensive and there’s not much [...]
The great carpet comeback – it’s about lifestyle!
Carpets have always been popular and very much a part of the flooring scene, but in recent years with the evolution of Vinyl and Laminated flooring, carpets took a bit of a back seat. [...]
Nothing integrates the outdoors and indoors more beautifully than wood and composite decking!
There is a huge new home design and renovation trend sweeping the globe and it’s called ‘Inviting the outdoors in.’ It emanates firstly from fulfilling the need to maximise what have become smaller indoor [...]
Carpet and rug trends for 2023 will be all about nature!
Maybe it’s because we spent a long time off the streets in 2020 locked up due to the COVI-19 pandemic and saw nature prosper in many ways as a result of it, or because [...]