When designing any area of your home, its only half the battle to find materials, and styles that you like… But then trying to coordinate them all and make sure everything matches? This is a task that sometimes seems near impossible. For example, maybe you like oak hardwood for your floors, but now you’ve found […]
Hardwood Floor Finish: Semi-Gloss, Satin, or Matte
When remodeling, or starting fresh with a new home, there are a myriad of design choices you’ll have to make. One of the key factors that go into the design of a room or house is flooring. Hardwood flooring is a staple in most modernized houses, giving them a sleek and compact look that goes […]
Keeping Your Hardwood Floors Safe From the Fireplace
According to a recent survey, home buyers rank fireplaces as one of the top three amenities they would like to have in their future home. Coupled with the ever-growing popularity of hardwood floors, it’s important to keep in mind that fireplaces–and wood stoves as well–can potentially damage beautiful hardwood flooring if precautions are not taken. […]
Which Hardwood Floors are Best for Pets?
When you have a furry friend, you know the struggles of keeping a clean home. Between dog hair, slobber, toys all over the floor, it’s enough just to vacuum and tidy up. And then you realize the more permanent damage that your dog may be leaving: Bite marks on furniture, stains on the carpet, and […]
How to Clean Hardwood Floors
The hardwood floors in your home bring such an elegant, and high-class aesthetic into your home. The natural beauty and warmth of the wood instill a functional look that will never go out of style. However, we often neglect the attention that they need in order to maintain their unique glow. We let them take […]
Matching a Paint Color With Your Hardwood Floor
When designing a room in your home, there’s probably more decisions to make than you ever thought possible… Choosing furniture, a flooring material, what color to paint the walls… and then trying to coordinate them all can make your head spin! With so many different options, it sometimes seems near impossible to make just the […]
When To Refinish Your Floors
Floors looking a little shabby lately? A few scratches here, a few chips there… When your floors start to show signs of aging, but you don’t want to completely replace them, you have a few options. Sometimes, you can get away with a quick cleaning, but most times your floor will require a refinish to […]
True hardwood vs engineered hardwood
Over the past years, the flooring business has changed in terms of newly developed products. Innovations in flooring have tried to capture not only the aesthetic appeal but durability and keeping it affordable to homeowners. Nailing this trifecta is subjective and based on the homeowner’s particular needs. True hardwood and engineered wood have been the […]
Rugs placement in the Kitchen/dining area
The rug a thick fabric that covers parts of a floor of a home. Most rugs are woven of wool and other materials, sometimes made of a treated skin of an animal. Rugs can come in many shapes and sizes sometimes plain or decked in designs. Rugs have been woven throughout history in many cultures. […]
Quick tips to keeping your floor clean
There’s nothing more annoying than a dirt floor in your home. It is unappealable, unsanitary, and even not safe to people in the house to have a dirty floor. Here are a few guidelines to follow to keep your floor clean and dust free. Studies have shown that about 32 percent of Americans sweep at […]