If you?ve been considering installing hard wood flooring into your home it?s probably not as hard as you may be imagining. Especially since these days most hardware stores sell kits that make installing wooden floors a cinch. They?ve made it as simple as clicking pre cut pieces together with a tight fit nonetheless, where you would never know that the floors weren?t professionally installed. It?s as simple as choosing the type and color of wood that you want, yanking up your old floor ? whether … There are solid wood floors, strip, plank and parquet including herringbone, block and other patterns. Engineered wood floors, two strip, three strip, single plank, solidengineered or semi-solid engineered wood flooring in 2 ply, 3 ply and multiply construction. Not forgetting, of course the laminate flooring that is some sometimes confused with real wood engineered flooring products that are manufactured by a laminated construction process. Hardwood flooring is still the most popular type of wood flooring, but the price, maintenance and installation process means that people still look to other types of flooring which will create the wood effect, such as laminate wood flooring.