Category Archive For "Flooring"
Cork Flooring: Warm, Eco Friendly, & Easy to Maintain
For the flooring in your home, you want an option that offers a few important qualities. First, your flooring should look and feel great. Secondly, your flooring should be easy to clean and maintain. Finally, a great flooring should be friendly to the environment. One of the only flooring types that offers these benefits in …
Choosing the Wood Finish to Fit Your Style
Choosing hardwood flooring for your home is a fantastic decision, both for its longevity and its distinct, eye catching appearance. However, after you’ve chosen the right hardwood for your home, there is still one more important decision to make: What kind of finish will you use?
How to Prevent Wood Warping in High Traffic Areas
Hardwood flooring is a great choice for almost any home, offering superior durability and a one of a kind appearance. However, although wood is extremely resistant to most stresses, too much exposure to moisture can result in warping. Because the hardwood in your home is such a large investment, it’s crucial you do everything you …
The Hardwood Gold Mine: Restoring Hardwoods Found in Older Homes
There are a number of reasons you could choose to buy an older home. First, older homes have a lot of character that’s hard to find in newer models. Secondly, older homes can sometimes be found at a much lower costs, allowing you to get more bang for your buck. However, one benefit of buying …
Going Green: Choosing Non-Toxic Adhesives and Finishes
One of the hottest, most exciting trends for homeowners in recent years has been the desire to make their homes environmentally friendly. From top to bottom, homeowners are trying to use green products in their homes, and this extends to the adhesives and finishes used on flooring.
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Choosing the Right Stone Flooring for Your Home
As a homeowner, you have a lot of different choices when it comes to flooring, all of which offer big benefits. However, in terms of appearance and durability, there’s almost no better choice than stone flooring. What you might not realize, is that stone flooring is not a monolithic flooring category. In fact, stone flooring …
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How to Know if You Are Paying too Much for Laminate Flooring
Laminate flooring has become a popular substitution for wood, tile or stone floors for a number of great reasons. First, laminate offers extreme durability at a much lower price than other flooring types you could choose. Secondly, laminate is something of a master of disguise, mimicking the look of stone, tile or wood floors at …
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Maintaining Your Cork Flooring
Cork is a unique flooring option that saw its heyday from the late 19th century to the mid 20th century. However, due to the advent of more inexpensive flooring options, cork fell out of favor, but due to recent high-profile clients like Hilton Hotels and the Library of Congress, cork floors are making a comeback. …
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How to Budget for Carpet Installation
Like many home repairs or refurbishments, new carpet installation is a necessary evil. Years of foot traffic, pets, spills and general wear and tear take a toll on your carpet—and people with children see this wear and tear much sooner than anyone else. If your beloved carpet is on its last legs, then you need …
New Flooring: Tips on Saving Money
Did you purchase a new home with plans on upgrading the flooring? Perhaps you are looking to spruce up your current home with new flooring options. No matter what the reasons are, new flooring can be an exciting way to bring life into your home. Installing new flooring can both give your home a signature …
