Best Kitchen Flooring Collections: Best Budget Flooring for The Busiest Room in the Home

February 18, 2012

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Best Kitchen Flooring Collections: Best Budget Flooring for The Busiest Room in the Home

The kitchen is where the cookies are. It’s where meals are made. It’s where mom cuts the crust off, and where dad burns the toast. It’s also where sauces get spilled, dishes drip, and dirty feet track in who knows what. That’s why it is important that every kitchen floor be as durable and easy-to-clean [...]

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Read This Before Buying New Flooring! Important Flooring Facts Every Homeowner Should Know

February 13, 2012

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Read This Before Buying New Flooring! Important Flooring Facts Every Homeowner Should Know

So tax returns are in, and you expect a little bit of a kickback this year? Maybe it’s finally time to begin the kitchen or living room remodeling project you’ve talked about for the better part of a decade? If you’re shopping for new flooring for the home, it’s easy to see a particular collection, [...]

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DIY Vinyl Flooring Install: Best Adhesives, Tips & Tricks

February 11, 2012

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DIY Vinyl Flooring Install: Best Adhesives, Tips & Tricks

Vinyl flooring is a stylish and economical option for homeowners in search of a high-performance, cost-effective floor for use throughout the home. Today, manufacturers such as Amitco, Karndean and Mannington produce high-quality luxury vinyl floors that are as stunning as they are sturdy. Most makers offer both vinyl tiles and sheet vinyl, and the one [...]

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Busted Laminate Flooring Plank? No Problem – Quick Fixes for Damaged Laminates

February 4, 2012

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Busted Laminate Flooring Plank? No Problem – Quick Fixes for Damaged Laminates

Maybe you dropped your 75lb dumbbell while doing power curls in the living room. Maybe you were practicing for the chainsaw juggling competition and missed a crucial catch. Maybe your dog decided to dig his way into the basement. Regardless of how it happened, sometimes laminate planks get damaged and replacement is the only answer. [...]

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Grout it out Loud: Tips and Techniques for Great Grouting

January 27, 2012

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Grout it out Loud: Tips and Techniques for Great Grouting

So you’re remodeling the bathroom, and you’ve picked out the perfect Subway Tile pattern from Daltile or American Olean. The tiles are up and in place. Now, it’s time to get grouting. Applying grout to the gaps between tiles is a crucial part of a successful tile install, but all it takes is one misstep, [...]

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Top 3 Best Bedroom Floors: Hardwood, Bamboo & Cork

January 17, 2012

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Top 3 Best Bedroom Floors: Hardwood, Bamboo & Cork

Beneath that pile of gym clothes, under the furry rug sits what could be a beautiful bedroom floor. Sure, bedroom floors can become a little cluttered sometimes, but the right flooring material will add the sort of beauty and warmth that turns any bedroom into the coziest room in the home. If you’re remodeling, you’ve [...]

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Out with the Old: How to Remove Glued-Down Vinyl Flooring

January 6, 2012

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Out with the Old: How to Remove Glued-Down Vinyl Flooring

The New Year has arrived! That means out with old, and in with the new – especially if “the old” is an outdated vinyl floor that might have been “the new” back in, say, 1978. Removing old vinyl flooring is often the first step to installing the new floor of your dreams, so we’ve put [...]

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Top 3 Floors for Families with Kids & Pets: Tile, Laminate & Bamboo

January 4, 2012

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Top 3 Floors for Families with Kids & Pets: Tile, Laminate & Bamboo

Adults usually don’t finger paint on the living room floor and they rarely attempt to bury a bone in the middle of the hallway. But kids and pets? They’ve been known to leave their mark. A new hardwood floor can quickly become Little Picasso’s latest crayon masterpiece, or Fido’s accidental indoor out-house – and the [...]

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Quarry Tile: A Simple, Functional & Durable Commercial Floor

December 23, 2011

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Quarry Tile: A Simple, Functional & Durable Commercial Floor

Chances are, everybody has walked on it – probably even today. Maybe it was at the supermarket, at the garden store, or at the corner deli? Maybe it was on the neighbors’ patio out back, or at the train stop on your way to work? Regardless, Quarry Tile is everywhere, but few people even notice. [...]

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This Train Stops at Style Station – Subway Tile is one of the Year’s Hottest Trends

December 22, 2011

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This Train Stops at Style Station – Subway Tile is one of the Year’s Hottest Trends

For many city-dwellers, the daily subway ride isn’t always a scenic vacation. But a brief look at the walls of many subway stops reveals some of the most iconic tile work of the 20thcentury. The instantly recognizable “Subway Tile” look was pioneered in New York train tunnels in the early 1900’s, and today it’s one [...]

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