As 2025 is only a few days to approach into year 2026, the consumer markets for floor coverings has undergone slight design preference change from previous years. For 2025, some of the top preference includes wider flooring planks, more appearance in herringbone style floorings, a strong comeback in warn and earth tone colors, and more exploring options in sustainability flooring materials.
23 Floor Covering Design Trends
According to the latest google search results, there are 23 floor covering design trends that would proceed into 2026 year. Here we have picked some of the most relevant topics that is related to luxury vinyl floorings.
- Sustainable Flooring
- Large Format Tiles
- Natural Grain Embossing and Registered Finish
- Wide Plank Hardwoord
- Wide Plank Vinyl Flooring
- Matte Finishes
- Bold Colors and Patterns
- Colorful Tiles
- Herringbone Patterns
- Rich Wood Tones
- Seamless Flooring Throughout
- Chevron Patterns
- Luxury Vinyl Flooring
- Area Rugs
- Checkerboard Floors
- Checkerboard Patterns
- Painted Floorboards
- Stone-look Vinyl Flooring
- Terrazzo Flooring
- Warm Tones
- Artificial Wood
- Biophilic design
Sustainable Flooring
Sustainable flooring is an increasing trend as both consumers and building regulations are progressing towarding environmental friendly building materials. Flooring certifications such as Floorscore, TUV, EPD, and etc are becoming more important for flooring businesses and building material distributors. While some common resilient flooring certifications such as CARB2, Floorscore, CE marks still applies to ensure the safeness of the material, new requirements for carbon neutral manufacturing, such as EPD and DGNB are now also required in specific countries. This is one of the most influential flooring design trends for 2026 which vinyl flooring brands and manufacturers cannot overlook.
In addition, the trend for PVC-free resilient flooring products are increasing with more flooring brands launching their PP-LVT and PET-LVT flooring collections. Brands such as Tarkett (France) has already launched their own dryback LVT that is completely made from polypropylene. In the meantime, Mohawk are also jointly working with manufacturers in China to develop the next generation vinyl free LVT and vinyl free SPC product lines. Major investment for vinyl free resilient flooring manufacturer plants are being made across China and South East Asia.
Natural Grain Embossing and Registered Finish
For 2026, consumer preference in interior design has undergone significant changes. Clean and natural landscape wood grains is a major trend that are replacing the more complex and featured elements (such as knots and cracks). From recent customer demands, more natural grain pattern designs are being explored. In addition, to make up for the premium designs with more authentic wood appearance, EIR embossing patterns are also being developed. These Embossing In Register (EIR) has a strong aesthetics for strong design trends for 2026
Wide Plank Vinyl Flooring
Luxury vinyl tiles, whether its semi-rigid LVT or rigid core SPC, are going through with significant consumer preference change with larger plank dimensions. The wider plank size allows for longer plank specifications. Extra long vinyl planks with 60″ and 72″ length are now more popular compare to the standard plank size of 48″ length.
Common Extra Large Vinyl Plank Dimensions
- 9″ x 60″ Vinyl Plank
- 9″ x 72″ Vinyl Plank
Matte Finishes
Matte surface and matte bevel are both technologies of matte finish technologies. One focus on the plank surface where ultra matte and ) (or near 0) gloss level is achieved with a new coating technology. The ultra matte surface makes the vinyl planks appears more like real woods by removing the shinness which give a hint of plastic feeling to the flooring. The matte bevel is a bevel slotting technology which makes the bevel with matte surface.
With increasing technology innovations in resilient vinyl floorings, new vinyl flooring products with the combination of ultra matte surface and EIR embossing can make the vinyl planks looking authentically like real woods.
Herringbone Patterns
A new market trend for herringbone patterns in luxury vinyl tiles and SPC flooring is emerging. At end of 2025, many of our global clients has been requesting and searching for herringbone style click vinyl floorings. Herringbone vinyl flooring services as an effective replacement for parket style hardwood floorings. With a smaller price to pay, herringbone vinyl floorings is an excellent floor covering choice, especially ones with natural grains with EIR surface.
There is also a trend to go for the extra narrow width planks that is below 10cm. A more European prefered plank size that is also popular in many Nordic countries.