Archive for Flooring

Selling A Home: Putting The Buyers Best Foot Forward – On New Floors

Barbara | April 17, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Selling a house can be a long, exhaustive process. Why not give your house the opportunity to stand out from all the others that are for sale? New flooring will do just that. In fact one of the first things a buyer sees when entering a potential home is the floors. Stained, matted and out-of-date [...]

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90,000 People in 9 Days!

Barbara | April 12, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Mohawk and SmartStrand are at it again!  Mohawk has teamed up with the Family Circle Cup Tennis Tournament and laid down the gauntlet and the carpet for 90,000 fans to walk on over the nine days of the tournament. Check out why SmartStrand can hold up to the traffic in your home! Treading on SmartStrand

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Step Up To The Mat

Barbara | April 2, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Add personality to your home both inside and out with fun and functional mats. Door mats can add individuality and a personal touch to your home as well as protecting the floors inside your home from dirt being tracked in. Leafy outdoor designs, adorable lady bugs or a simple bold statement of “Welcome” are only [...]

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Keep Your Carpet Looking Beautiful for Life

Barbara | March 19, 2010 | View Comments Comments

DINNER PARTY DISASTER You recently purchased a beautiful light beige carpet that you can’t wait to show your friends and family and throw a small dinner party to celebrate your decorating savvy. Just after you pour a glass of red wine for your friend, you turn to fill your own glass. Suddenly you hear, “OH [...]

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Finding the Perfect Floor

Barbara | March 12, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Picture this – you walk into a floor covering store and suddenly feel as if the samples are closing in on you. There are racks and racks of carpet, wood, laminate and tile and you have no idea where to begin. You wonder that with so many flooring options, how will you be able to [...]

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Behind Every Great Piece of Carpet is a Great Carpet Installer – Or You Hope!

Barbara | March 5, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Carpet that is not installed properly may look good for a short while, but over time, will begin to have problems, including wrinkles or waves that become trip hazards. It can pull away from the walls and have seams that unravel and open up. Good installation is key to the performance of every carpet. Many [...]

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Accessorizing From The Floor Up

Barbara | January 26, 2010 | View Comments Comments

Hard surfaces (tile, hardwood, laminate) are very popular flooring choices, but many homeowners remark that the room can feel cold and sounds echo throughout their house. A great way to counter this is to use an area rug over your hard surface flooring. Area rugs can add warmth, soften sound and create a focal point [...]

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Choosing the Right Tile

Barbara | September 21, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Ceramic and Porcelain tile are very popular flooring solutions in Florida.  Sand, dirt and other substances tracked in by people and pets clean up fairly easily. Tile can feel cool to walk on in the heat of summer. Pets often like to lounge on tile for that reason. There are so many sizes and patterns [...]

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This Is Not Your Mother’s Vinyl

Barbara | September 8, 2009 | View Comments Comments

Vinyl flooring is resilient – meaning that it has some cushion or give. Standing on it for hours at a time will not make your legs ache as other hard surface products will, and not everything dropped on it will break compared to ceramic or porcelain. Unlike the original patterns from the 60s, the new [...]

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HARDWOOD vs LAMINATE

Whether you are building a new home or remodeling your existing one, deciding on which product to use is more than choosing the color. Thinking about hardwood?  Should you choose a solid floor or an engineered?  Exotic or standard wood?  Narrow planks or wide?  Matte finish, piano finish, handscraped or distressed?  Glue-down, staple, nail or [...]

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