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Area rugs add style to a room while also providing warmth and coziness. A popular alternative to wall-to-wall carpeting, these practical and attractive rugs allow you to showcase your beautiful floors while protecting high-traffic areas. They can tie together furniture groupings or serve as a ...

Whether you choose ceramic, porcelain, or natural stone, tile flooring is excellent for many applications. Tiles not only offer a wide variety of color options but are also often environmentally friendly, extremely long-lasting, hypoallergenic, and low-maintenance.Interested in tile and want to ...

Bathrooms are one of the most used rooms in the house, so functionality is critical — but so are style and design. Like any space in the home, the bathroom should reflect our tastes and the feeling we want it to invoke, from peaceful and restful to reinvigorated and refreshed. With as much time as ...

Hardwood flooring is one of the most beautiful and classic types of flooring available, and you can keep it looking stunning for decades with proper care and maintenance. The good news is that it’s not a lot of work. Below, find some simple tips for keeping your hardwood in good shape. We’ve also ...

As we embark upon a new year, it’s time to look at what’s ahead in flooring style and design. The primary themes we’re seeing for 2023 involve creating warm and cozy spaces full of lived-in texture. Patterns like herringbone, plaid, stripes, and soft earthy looks that incorporate more matte ...

As hard as you or your painters may try to be neat, painting is a messy process. Most homeowners end up with at least a few paint drops or splatters, and some aren’t even noticeable — at first. The faster you can address a paint spill, the better, but you may be dealing with an older spill you’ve ...

If you’re thinking of investing in a new living room floor, you’ll be pleased to find there are more options than ever. So many options, in fact, that selecting the best material can feel overwhelming. These days you have an almost limitless number of designs, colors, and styles to choose from. ...

Many of the benefits of marble flooring can be easily observed: marble is timelessly beautiful and is often considered the height of luxury. Most homeowners strive to incorporate marble into at least one element of their home. While some choose countertops or other small touches, others go for the ...

With all eyes on making the home the most comfortable and beautiful oasis possible, trends for floor coverings in 2023 are likely to involve creating cozy spaces where you can look forward to spending time. Cozy can still be luxurious, however, and carpet is no exception. The latest carpet trends ...

Kitchens have long been a gathering place for friends and family to share memories and good times. In recent years, kitchens have also become design focal points, showcasing fixtures and colors that complement the style of the home. As a result, it may feel like there are infinite options to ...

Vinyl plank flooring, also known as luxury vinyl flooring (LVF or LVP), has seen a rise in popularity in recent years due to its improved construction and more realistic look. It is a much thicker and more rigid flooring than flexible sheet vinyl, fabricated in long planks that most often mimic the ...

Choosing new flooring can be fun — there are so many styles, textures, and colors to choose from. However, it can also be a little intimidating. After all, this is a choice you’ll be living with for the next several years. So if you’ve been wondering how to select the right hue for your space, you’...

While hardwood and laminate have become more popular in recent years, carpet still accounts for more than 60% of retail flooring sales. It’s no wonder, considering the variety of styles and options available. Plus, carpet is well known for being cozy, soft, warm, and great for dampening noise.If ...

Laminate flooring came out back in the 1970s and has continued to grow in popularity since. Laminate floors are made of layers of wood fibers, followed by a layer designed to mimic the look of wood, tile, and stone, and topped with a durable wear layer. It has become a favorite flooring choice due ...

In most cases, carpet installation is relatively straightforward. However, the amount of experience and efficiency of the carpet installation experts you hire will have a significant impact on the length of time it will take to install carpet. The quality of the installation will also influence how ...

Tile flooring is an excellent choice for many applications, mainly because there are so many types of floor tiles offering various options to suit the needs of a specific space. In addition, floor tiles are often environmentally friendly, extremely long-lasting, hypoallergenic, and low-maintenance —...

What Are The Benefits Of Professional Floor Installation?We all love watching home improvement shows and dreaming of making big changes to our own living spaces. While the Property Brothers make these things look easy, the magic of TV enables them to fast-forward through the process, making even ...

Maintenance and Care Tips: How To Deep Clean Laminate FloorsEven with regular daily maintenance, you may find your laminate flooring accumulating residue over time. This residue can be caused by wax buildup, dirt on the bottom of shoes, or even the wrong cleaning products. Over time, this buildup ...

No one can dispute the value of an area rug. It provides comfort underfoot, absorbs sounds, and helps to tie a room together. It is easy to remove to clean, and you can affordably swap it out as it shows wear and tear or you make changes to your decor. While there are many such rugs on the market, ...

With the growing popularity of hard surface flooring including large format natural stone and tile, incredibly versatile and authentic looking luxury vinyl wood planks and tiles and trendy new hardwood flooring options might make one think that carpet is yesterday’s news. Not so fast!New ...

The wide variety of available floor coverings can be a bit overwhelming. Here’s what you need to know about two in particular.Wool is top of the pops natural fabric-wise, in terms of wearability, holding dyes well — and it cleans up in a jiffy. Wool is a staple yarn (small strips spun together) so ...

Unlike many other house decor decisions, flooring tends to be long-lasting (about 10 years for carpet, up to 50-100 years for tile or hardwood) and is a major investment in time and money. Your flooring will last through changes in style trends and can influence your home’s value. How do you decide ...

Natural stoneFlagstone: Flagstone is a sedimentary rock which is split or cut into layers. Flagstone tiles are most often used outdoors for patios, walkways, steps, and similar applicationsGranite: Granite is very dense, scratch resistant, and occurs naturally in hundreds of varieties of color and ...

Engineered Hardwood Pros and Cons: Is It Right For You?There are a lot of misconceptions and misunderstandings out there about engineered hardwood that can make it difficult to know if it’s the right choice for your project. For example, did you know that engineered hardwood is real wood? The ...

What Is Cumaru? A Unique and Durable Flooring for Hardwood LoversYou might think that cumaru sounds like something new and exotic. You would be half right: it is an exotic hardwood from Brazil, but it’s been around for a while. In fact, it was quite popular a decade ago before flooring trends moved ...

Why Is Luxury Vinyl Tile Flooring So Popular and Will It Work For You?Luxury vinyl flooring has become more popular among homeowners to provide a beautiful, realistic look. Luxury vinyl flooring is very different from the sheet vinyl you may be familiar with and has many benefits. Read on to ...

What Is the Difference Between Solid Hardwood and Engineered Hardwood?You know you want wood floors. The look is classic. It whispers luxury and adds value to your home. But which is better? Engineered hardwood has come a long way in performance and appearance since its debut in the 1960s. In fact, ...

Etch marks. Stains. Acid cleaners. All of these can strike fear and prevent you from choosing marble for your next home remodeling project or even from buying a house with marble features. It need not be that way.In How I Learned Not to Be Intimidated by My Marble Floors, you can learn the ...

Trends come and go, but natural stone flooring comes and goes at a slower rate. The type and style of stone floor you choose today will look appropriate for a long, long time.Whether you need a new entranceway, patio, kitchen, or bathroom floor, choosing the right stone for the right purpose per ...