Keeping Your Hardwood Floors Looking their Best
Maintaining your newly installed hardwood floors is a vital part of keeping them beautiful for years to come. When you properly maintain your floors, they can last for decades and become a beloved…
Maintaining your newly installed hardwood floors is a vital part of keeping them beautiful for years to come. When you properly maintain your floors, they can last for decades and become a beloved…
For a very long time, hardwood flooring planks were all about the same. They were between three and six inches wide, they were about 12 inches long, and they were finished with a…
There are two basic kinds of hardwood flooring, engineered and solid. Solid hardwood flooring is just solid planks of wood. Engineered hardwood, however, is made from multiple layers of wood that are pressed…
For a long time, the most popular type of hardwood flooring was parquet. Parquet was used in the Palace at Versailles in France. Also, TD Garden in Boston uses parquet hardwood flooring for…
In the 21st-century, customers are becoming more and more aware of the chemicals that they are using in their daily lives. They’re more knowledgeable about the foods they eat as well the environmental…
There are dozens of different ways that hardwood can be stained and finished after it has been installed. The many different methods affect the look and feel of the wood in subtle or…
The mixed-width hardwood trend is exactly what it sounds like. Hardwood flooring installers are installing hardwood that is made of planks of several different widths. Obviously, the standard option is for every plank…
Trends in flooring come and go over time. Some of them are based on function and others on style. Hickory has been growing in popularity and does not look to be slowing down….
Typically, when you buy hardwood flooring, you buy enough of one kind of wood to cover your entire space. That means you’ll buy, for example, cherry oak planks that are all the same…
A few hardwood flooring trends have been prominent in the last few years and show no sign of fading. One of the new trends in sustainability is end grain flooring. Sustainability and responsible…