Flooring is a structural element of the house, that has a wide variety of choices, durable and beauty  should be part of any flooring. However this qualities are worthless if the sub-flooring is of poor quality, destroying your flooring investment.

 The floor or sub flooring on which your flooring rest, is as important even more that your flooring.  Particle board sub flooring has a severe weakness against water leaks and moisture. Plywood sub flooring is a better option, together with some sort of moisture proof barrier.

The flooring used could be the same for most areas of the house, but a combination of flooring is also an option, like hardwood floors or tile for kitchen, or vinyl flooring or tile for bathrooms or engineered floor or carpet for bedrooms and hallways which provides different environments.