A Visual History of Flooring Across The World

It’s hard to imagine, we know. Cavemen weren’t worrying about whether to opt for a click lock system or tongue and groove, and the Romans didn’t have to consider that they needed to leave their solid wood floor to acclimatise before laying it. Obviously life was much less interesting without wooden flooring around, so we’ve compiled a delicious visual history of flooring to see how far we’ve come and revel in how lucky we are nowadays.

We take a look at the origins of flooring back when we were still hitting each other over the head with clubs, through some of the most significant periods of time to see what kind of flooring they predominantly used, right up to the present day and the stuff that keeps us in a job. We hope you like our infographic and find it both interesting and informative so you can go and tell all your family and friends the history of flooring.