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…
Hardwood Flooring Planks Are Getting Wider and Wider
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…
How Engineered Hardwood Flooring Is Engineered
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…
Hardwood Parquet is Back in Style
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…
VOC-Free Finishes Are Very Popular
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…
What is Water Popping and Why Is it Trending?
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…
Explaining the Mixed-Width Hardwood Trend
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…
Why Is Hickory Growing So Popular?
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…
Patchwork Hardwood Flooring
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…
End Grain Flooring is Trending Right Now
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….