Retail Flooring Contractor
In the highly competitive retail world, maintaining an appealing and up-to-date facility is crucial for attracting and retaining customers.
From Miami’s South Beach to Jupiter, Florida, consumers are drawn to shopping environments that exude luxury, coolness, edginess, or authenticity. A store that appears worn or outdated can significantly deter potential shoppers.
To ensure a retail space meets these standards, partnering with a professional retail flooring contractor is essential.
Retail flooring contractors bring expertise in selecting and installing flooring that withstands high traffic and enhances the store’s aesthetic, contributing to a positive shopping experience and reinforcing the retailer’s brand identity.
Aside from the aesthetics, retail flooring installation is an important component. Flooring organizes the space, defines paths of circulation and creates merchandising zones. Flooring also helps set the tone and reinforces a brand. Our team at East Coast Flooring & Interiors has been installing South Florida commercial floors for decades, and is ready to get started at your retail location right away.
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Retail Flooring Options
Sometimes the right retail flooring installation sets a backdrop upon which the design is built, and sometimes the floor makes a big design statement. No matter if you are a mall, a large box store or a small boutique, retail flooring installation demands high performance, easy maintenance, and maximum style.
Over the years, a majority of retailers have gone with floor tile installations, staying with the standard 8×8 or 12×12 tile set on a grid. Instead, consider installing porcelain tiles with natural finishes that mimic stone, quartz-based engineered tiles that have a variety of color and aggregate texture for accents, or wood or natural stone in special seating or focal node areas.
There are standards that designers often follow in retail establishments, but many of these design guidelines are being challenged. For instance, department store shoe sections traditionally feature luxe carpet installation with thick padding, not for the comfort of the customers as they try on shoes, but to keep the soles of the shoes they are selling from being scratched. Today, both the retailer and the customer are more comfortable with slightly imperfect soles, so designers are choosing retail wood floor installation and floor tile installation to achieve a particular design style.
Take a look at some of the more popular retailers out there. Macy’s uses 18×18 polished white porcelain tile in its flooring installations. Likewise, Neiman Marcus uses 12×12 natural stone, which is polished to create a clean, upscale look. Starbucks stores typically feature mottled warm porcelain, often with wood tones, and Best Buy has a standard carpet tile. Apple uses Italian stone and Anthropology stores to feature a distressed wood installation. These standardized specifications set a brand style, encouraging customers to feel comfortable in whatever location they enter and, therefore, building loyalty.
Whereas slick and polished was the retail look of yesterday, today things are more natural-looking. Finishes are the colors of sandstone, travertine, limestone. There is much more wood and stone flooring being used. Traditionally, the circulation area of a department store was always stone or wood installation, and the rest of the store was carpeted in broadloom. Now, departments are installing wood, porcelain, stone or carpet tile.
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For secondary floors, retailers expect a floor covering to last five years. Ideally, an aisle should last eight to 10 years, but sometimes designs are out of style before they are worn out. East Coast Flooring & Interiors has experience installing flooring in South Florida’s retail sector, including large malls, stores and boutiques. We offer a collection of high-performance flooring products that meet the most rigorous challenges the retail environment faces: durability and flexibility for high-traffic areas. Whether building a LEED-certified store or simply renovating, we offer rubber flooring, carpeting, hardwood, marble, porcelain, stone, vinyl, vinyl planks, and laminate.
