The Best Flooring for Small Rooms
Sometimes it can be hard to find a good use for that one tiny room in your home. It’s not quite big enough to be a living room, it’s not small enough to be turned into a closet, it’s just that annoying in-between size that can drive a homeowner crazy. We’ve got a few flooring […]
Maintaining Your Hardwood Floors
Most hardwood floors are inherited. Passed down from homeowner to homeowner. That means you haven’t had to make the tough choices like picking wood or picking a color. All you have to do is be proactive and help maintain your existing hardwood floor. No shoes policy In an active home with kids and pets and […]
Hardwood Flooring Maintenance Checklist
We’ve been handing out a lot of great information regarding how to care for, and maintain your hardwood floors. So, for good measure, here’s a quick summary – a checklist, if you will – of all the things you can do to protect and prolong the life of your hardwood floors. Cleaning your hardwood floors […]
Choosing a Color for Your Hardwood Floors
Hardwood floors can be one of the reasons for buying a home. Buying a home without hardwood floors mean that you have to make a few tough choices yourself, like what type of wood, and what color. If you’re buying a home with the intention of putting in hardwood floors, talk to a local hardwood […]
Home Insurance and Hardwood Floors
Proper care and maintenance of your hardwood floors will ensure a long and lasting life. But, every now and then something unforeseen happens that can cause severe damage to your hardwood floors. Whereas your home insurance may cover much of the damage, there are a few pitfalls that you should be aware of when it […]
Hardwood Floors in Your Hotel Lobby
If you’re in the hospitality service, you know that you have to hook your customer from the moment they pull up to your establishment. And once they step through that front door, they need to feel like home. A full-service home with a wait staff ready to serve your guests 24 hours a day, of […]
Three Trends, One Hardwood Floor
The biggest buzzwords in the hardwood flooring industry right now are reclaimed, wide, and black! Now, you can get all three trends in one beautiful hardwood floor. Reclaimed hardwood floors Choosing reclaimed hardwood for your floors is the ultimate “green” choice and one that weighs heavily in a customer’s choice of wood. Environmental responsibility is the […]
Wide Planks: Old Trend, New Technology
(Cover art by Jean-François Millet – The Yorck Project: 10.000 Meisterwerke der Malerei) The wide plank trend is spreading quickly in the hardwood flooring community. It’s a modern, updated version of the original hardwood floors of the past. As with most “new” trends, they are spawned from “old” trends, but with a twist Hardwood flooring […]
Blending Scandinavian Chick With Colorado Country Charm
Hardwood flooring trends We’ve heard a lot about “The Nordic Track” and how Scandinavia is at the forefront of green, sustainable, clean living. If you’ve ever travelled to Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland, one trend you may have come across is good old-fashioned whitewashed hardwood floors. This old trend is making a comeback. Hardwood floors […]
Rediscover Your Hardwood Floors
Correct your carpeting mistakes! At some point, you thought that carpet would be a better choice for you living room. You love the soft feel on your bare feet, and it’s a softer landing for little kids. But, now that the carpet has been around for a while, even with regular maintenance and cleaning, it […]