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
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 [...]
Finding the Perfect Floor
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 [...]
Behind Every Great Piece of Carpet is a Great Carpet Installer – Or You Hope!
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 [...]
Accessorizing From The Floor Up
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 [...]
Choosing the Right Tile
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 [...]
This Is Not Your Mother’s Vinyl
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 [...]
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 [...]
How Green Are Your Floors
I’m not talking about the color, although green is certainly a popular earthy color that blends almost anywhere, just like the green in nature. The green I am referring to is the environmentally conscious, green flooring alternatives that are widely available from almost every manufacturer. From hardwood to laminate to carpet and cleaners, recycled and [...]
Sign of the Times
See the picture of our beautiful awning. It’s not there anymore. The City of Sanford made us take it down because it didn’t fit the new code. It will cost us $2,000 to get it remade to code, but we can’t have it in green and white which have been our colors for 14 years. [...]