Bamboo: Eco-Friend or Eco-Foe
In our fight to preserve our planet and minimize our carbon footprint, people are looking at every option to be more “green”. That includes hardwood flooring. Even though hardwood floors are [...]
Hardwood 101: Acclimation Time
We want to have the best performance for the longest term when it comes to your hardwood floors. Making sure that the wood has acclimated properly is one of the most important steps to a [...]
Award Winning Organic Hardwood Floors from Hallmark
If we’ve learned anything from the Antique Roadshow, it’s that everything could be a hidden treasure. What you consider old, outdated and useless can have tremendous value and beauty. That is the [...]
Cost Effective Wood Block or Parquet Flooring
(Douglas Fir wood blocks. Photo credit: Old Wood LLC.) Solid wood floors are classic, popular and expensive. Not everyone has it in their budget to get solid wood floors, but that doesn’t mean [...]
Hardwood 101: Types of Hardwood
Solid, engineered and reclaimed hardwood types So, you think you want a hardwood floor? The best place to start is to know which wood type would suit you project, home or commercial space best. [...]
Hardwood Flooring 101: Methods of Installation
There are a million different types of woods, colors, stains and grades to chose from when you are installing a new hardwood floor. Okay, maybe not a million, but sometimes the amount of choices [...]
NWFA Hardwood Floor of the Year 2015
(Cover image: NWFA Hardwood Floor of the Year 2015 by Chris Saraceno via Hardwoodfloorsmag.com) With all the images going viral on the internet these days, it’s hard to imagine that a hardwood [...]