Multifamily Living Design: Flooring Solutions That Elevate Everyday Spaces

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Multifamily spaces require thoughtful design and performance materials that balance style, durability and residents’ diverse needs. The Multifamily Neutral Palette from Shaw Contract's Curate Collection brings flooring solutions that create inviting homes, enhance community connections and elevate the living experience for today’s multifamily lifestyles. 

Versatile curated palettes cater to a wide range of environments and price points, from classrooms and boardrooms to luxury hotels and high-end apartments, thoughtfully designed to adapt to diverse market needs and budgets.

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Durable Design for High-Traffic Zones

High-traffic corridor zones require durable, low-maintenance flooring, and the large square footage makes corridors a prime area to reduce costs in the overall design budget. Choosing affordable, high-performance materials in corridors can significantly impact the overall budget while still creating a welcoming and visually appealing space.

• Cross Weave Carpet Tile features a small-scale pattern that provides soft texture and depth to corridors and is available in warm and cool tones to coordinate with a variety of finishes. Cross Weave camouflages everyday spots and spills in the highest traffic areas while providing acoustical benefits and underfoot comfort.

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Where Residents Gather and Recharge

Redefine flexible spaces where residents gather, connect, and recharge by incorporating dynamic design elements that elevate the living experience. Save on the overall flooring budget by specifying more affordable carpet tile options in smaller meeting spaces. Elevate your space with the blend of affordability and standout designs below.

• Jackson Carpet Tile is a mix and match style from the Curate collection and pairs naturally with Delphi Carpet Tile which features layering veining in the community space.
• Solo LVT offers timeless wood visuals of Inlet merge with a modern herringbone design in Solo. The contemporary wood visuals engineered for enhanced durability in high-demand environments offer performance and style in one unique visual.
• Inlet II offers a foundational wood visuals in a range of colors. Inlet + Solo installations create visual movement, reshaping flexible spaces where we gather, collaborate and recharge.
• Radiant Gleam Porcelain Tile displays a linen fabric-inspired pattern, drawing inspiration from the timeless appeal and refined aesthetic of classic textiles.

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Flooring That Is the Foundation Of Living Environments

Multifamily units need flooring that’s easy to maintain, acoustically supportive, and visually warm. Shaw Contract offers a vast variety of hard surface options featuring natural, warm visuals and performance benefits such as water resistance, ease of installation and acoustical benefits. The following products bring unique, performance driven results to multifamily living environments.

• Knitted Strataworx® Carpet Tile is a lower-cost solution for budget-conscious designs that offers affordable comfort for resident corridors.
• Pivot EcoWorx™ Resilient focuses on durability and sustainability, it is PVC-free, recyclable, and resists staining and wear in residential environments.

Designing for Impact: Sustainability & Sound

Flooring choices influence more than aesthetics, they shape acoustic performance and support sustainability goals. Together, these elements contribute to healthier, more effective environments across campuses and workplaces.

Sound Advisor® helps you select the right floor covering for your project by presenting the industry’s most comprehensive set of data— all collected at the same lab, allowing you to accurately compare the difference between floor coverings.

Eco-conscious flooring options help reduce environmental impact without compromising performance:

• EcoWorx™ and StrataWorx® platforms are PVC-free and recyclable.
• Curate Collection is made with EcoSolution Q100® fiber. EcoSolution Q100® is a high performance 100% recycled content nylon fiber* with a low carbon footprint as reflected in the EC3 tool.
• At the end of its useful life, we’ll reclaim and recycle PVC-free EcoWorx™ Resilient styles to make more EcoWorx® products through our Environmental Guarantee.
• Shaw Contract has reclaimed nearly 1 billion pounds of post-consumer flooring.