For the main restaurant and bar areas, where a unique design is required, a hybrid flocked covering, like Flotex, is the perfect choice – thanks to the advances in digital printing technology. Flotex Vision offers a wide range of design options, allowing for any image to be replicated through digital printing. In fact, there are 500 options to choose from in the Flotex online digital library, from realistic images of natural materials such as a pebble beach to a contemporary floral design.
Digitally printed designs can also be found within Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) collections, such as Forbo’s Allura range, which offers patterns like a starry “galaxy” and Picasso-inspired “fluid” design, which will help to convey a brand’s story, define spaces or simply become a talking point of the interior décor.
LVTs are also a good fit for restaurants and bars, ticking most boxes as they provide stunning aesthetics, with excellent durability and easy maintenance. What’s more, with new modular formats available from XL and small square tiles to large planks, a whole variety of designs can be achieved through the installation method alone.
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Fleur Carson, Head of Key Accounts at Forbo Flooring Systems, explains why
specifying the correct floorcovering plays a vital role in the design process for hospitality settings.
When it comes to creating the right atmosphere within a restaurant or bar, there are various factors that need to be considered. These range from health and safety and acoustics to overall functionality and aesthetics.
According to a recent article in the Telegraph, good food, great wine and tantalising conversation with your favourite companions are the three key ingredients to a relaxing and enjoyable restaurant experience. However nowadays, restaurants are being critiqued more than ever and competition is rife. With this in mind, it has never been more important to ensure that a restaurant or bar stays ahead of the game with a well-thought-through design to ensure diners enjoy their experience and keep returning.
When approaching the design stage, the flooring choice is key; it is the one thing that customers and employees will remain in contact with and provides a large feature of the interior decor. However, it’s not a case of ‘one size fits all’ as there are many areas within a restaurant and bar, such as the main entertaining and dining space, toilets, kitchens and the back of house areas which all have their own individual requirements, and are very likely to demand different floorcoverings.
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When it comes to choosing a floorcovering for the back of house areas, it will depend on the type of staff room or offices that the end client desires. For example in a staff room, which will provide employees with an area that they can relax in, Flotex again could be the ideal choice; it combines the hardwearing and durable characteristics of a resilient floor with the warmth and comfort of a textile covering.
In the kitchen and toilet areas where liquid and food spillages are likely, it is highly recommended that a safety floorcovering is chosen, such as one from Forbo’s Surestep range. Forbo’s advances in technology see revolutionary STEP safety crystals embedded throughout the wearlayer of its Surestep range, which provides a fully slip resistant solution. The entire collection also meets with the prevalent UK slip standards; wet Pendulum test >36 and >20 surface roughness, as well as EN1385 for sustainable slip resistance.
Although there are a many considerations when designing a bar and/or restaurant area, by liaising with a reputable manufacturer, contractors can receive guidance on the performance of products, regulations and of course, the latest design trends to help contribute to creating the best space possible.
www.forbo-flooring.co.uk/leisureandhospitality
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