Anyone used them? We are looking at one of their mid-priced laminates for my daughter's room. The other option is a Pergo from Home Depot.
Overall I'm pretty impressed with laminates. Sure if you look close they aren't wood, but some its getting hard to tell. Especially since some of the wood floors look so fake due to exaggerated "hand scraped" textures and finishes that must be 1/32" thick. No way we are doing hardwood due to cost--I'm not putting a $1K floor in a kids room. Its laminate or carpet the laminate will look better and probably last longer. I've had HD's cheapest laminate in the little office in my shop for close to 7 years now. Snow, deris, a rolling chair, etc are always getting tracked on it and once a year when i mop it it looks like new again. My home office has HD's mid-grade laminate and it still looks great after close to 4 years other than a spot where acid from a UPS battery got on it. With hardwood I might have been able to sand that out but refinishing might have been problematic depending on the depth of the damage. Again rolling chair, average of 50 hours per week. There occasionally if the sun hits it just right you notice the funny joints but most people don't.