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How the Right Standards Make Better Floors
Every profession has its standards. When you combine ingenuity with best practices, you get better results every time – and predictable quality that lasts. Without best practices for what we build, none of the things we depend on to support everyday life would provide the safe, lasting performance we expect. In that respect, flooring is […]
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Home Décor That’s Red, White and Blue
Today’s flooring customer has more than one motivation to look for carpet, hardwoods, tile, laminate, luxury vinyl and even area rugs that are made in the United States. Along with the desire to support domestic production, homeowners also want to optimize the sustainability and environmental impact of what they buy. Once the term “carbon footprint” […]
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Redefine Flooring Trends with Timeless Choices
Where do you start your remodeling plans? Open a web browser and search for “Flooring trends,” and you’ll find a seemingly endless array of options, ideas and suggestions. After a while, you may feel as if you’re reading the same article over and over again – and if you glance back at equivalent stories from […]
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Keep It Green with Environmentally Friendly Flooring Options
With awareness of environmental impact and responsibility at the forefront, smart consumers look at all their choices from a greener perspective, and that includes flooring. When you’re looking for environmentally friendly options, you’ll need to consider more than just the materials in your floor. Make it (re)new Hardwoods are aspirational materials for many flooring consumers, […]
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The Planning Factor for Remodeling Success
So you’ve decided to remodel part of your home. You know the old advice: Failing to plan equals planning to fail, and when it comes to remodeling, success and planning are soulmates. Before you dive in to the fun part – choosing new design options – take a deep breath and make yourself a workable […]
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Rethink Tile for New Design Horizons
Have you relegated tile to bathrooms and backsplashes? Are hardwoods and carpet the leading “cool kids” on your list of flooring concepts? It’s time to broaden your outlook – and your design ideas – with a fresh look at the enduring value of ever-versatile tile. Tile is singularly inspiring in many ways, partially because of […]
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What Lurks Beneath? How to Manage Subfloors During Installation
When you prepare to update flooring in an existing home, you look at seemingly endless sets of samples to determine what to put where. New carpet in the living room? Great idea. Tile in the bathroom? That’s a no brainer. Laminate in the kitchen? Wonderful choice. You’ve mapped out all your selections and you’re ready […]
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Refurbish or Replace: When Is Your Floor Past Its Prime?
Does your flooring have more life left in it, or is time to wave goodbye and plan its replacement? If you’ve invested in high-quality products, installed them correctly and—perhaps most importantly—maintained them properly, you can expect your floors to give you years of great performance. At the same time, it’s essential to recognize the signs […]
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Give Your Home the Blues with New Flooring Ideas
If you’ve been tracking décor trends lately, you’ve seen gray become a dominant color for floors, walls and more. That’s partially because it gives a cool, modern look to revamped interiors – and many of the homes you see on the market have been fixed up to flip, with new flooring and paint schemes that […]
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Home for the Holidays – With New Floors on Schedule
Are new floors on your wish list for this year’s holiday season? Then you don’t want the installer showing up the same time your guests do. Plan ahead for a smooth, timely result. Never too early The fun of having new floors installed starts long before your installer arrives. If your holiday plans include transforming […]
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Beyond Floors: Create Stylish Looks
Today’s versatile flooring choices can go far beyond the surfaces under your feet. Think “flooring above the floor” and you can create décor magic that makes your home one of a kind. Tile style Tile can transform a room into an eye-catching work of art when you use its many sizes and colors to build […]
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4 Reasons to Put Carpet in Its Place – Outside the Bathroom
When carpet emerged as a symbol of luxury in the 1950’s, many homeowners overdid it by going wall-to-wall in every room – – including the bathroom. It’s made periodic comebacks as a bathroom option over the years, but we encourage homeowners to keep carpet outside the bathroom. Carpet absorbs For starters, carpet fibers are absorbent. […]
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The Kermans Difference
After a long walk across a giant parking lot, you finally reach the entrance to the big box store. “Where’s the flooring department?” you ask a passing associate. “Twenty-eight B,” she says and scurries away. Aisle 28B, you discover after trekking halfway through the store, is plumbing. “Forget this,” you say as you head back […]
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Best Flooring Choices for Multifunctional Spaces
Quick question: When you’re choosing new flooring, which part of your home gives you the most trouble? For some people, it’s the living room, which they envision as a statement that demands either an epic choice or one that blends in effortlessly. For others, it’s the spaces they use in so many different ways that […]
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5 Dos for Retro Flooring Flair
Lace up your earth shoes for a walk down flooring memory lane. You’ll want to hold onto the seat of your parachute pants because these five retro revivals “dos” bring back lively looks from the past with (thankfully) a fresh take. Do: Statement color There was nothing timid about old school tile colors and treatments. […]