You repainted the walls, replaced the light fixtures, and bought the sofa you’d been saving for, and the living room in your Kansas City home still looks like it’s waiting for something. It took a visit to a friend’s newly renovated place to see what. Her walls were ordinary. Her furniture was older than yours. But the floor, a wide-plank oak that ran unbroken from the entry through the kitchen, made everything above it look intentional. You went home and looked down for the first time in years, at carpet that had stopped being a color and become a texture, and understood what your room had been waiting for.

Flooring is the largest surface in a home and the one people are least likely to think of as design. Yet it sets the tone for every room, connects spaces or divides them, and decides whether furniture looks placed or parked. Modern flooring options have expanded well beyond the carpet-or-hardwood choice of a generation ago, and the right one can change a home more than any other single project. Here’s how.

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