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 […]
The History of Prefinished Flooring
In the early 19th-century, hardwood floors were either crudely sawed and installed for the lower and middle class or intricately laid parquet flooring for the wealthy and powerful. The beginning of World War II, when the need for new housing and factories needed to be constructed quickly, opened up the market for a new type […]
Spilling Acetone on Your Hardwood Floors
The weather is getting warmer, flowers are breaking ground and reaching for the sun, and it’s the end of hibernation for many of our local animals here in Colorado. A few animals that are often overlooked when we talk about spring fever are the ten little piggies we’ve been hiding in winter boots for the […]
The Pros of Prefinished Hardwood Flooring
Prefinished vs. site-finished floors When you speak to people about hardwood flooring there seem to be two separate camps: those that choose the site finished hardwood flooring vs. those that choose prefinished floors. We’re not taking sides, by any means, but we thought we’d point out a few benefits of choosing prefinished flooring. Eliminate installation time […]