Parquet flooring is a visually exciting – potentially even exotic – way to enliven your room or home, whether you’re remodeling a Bay Area condominium or designing your Palo Alto “dream home” from scratch.
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Eco-Friendly Flooring Options
You admit it: You love the environment. But you also love your home. You want to experience “the good life” without wrecking the environment. This article will introduce you to some flooring materials you can use to beautify your Bay Area home, condo, or office that also passes the “green” test.
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Emergency First Aid for Squeaky Floors
Whether you just finished a kitchen remodeling job that’s gone great except for a squeaky board right under the table; or you’re fixing up an old building and the floorboards are squeaking everywhere, this article provides action packed advice to help you identify the sources of squeak and remedy them ASAP.
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Is Wood Really that Much Better than Tile or Carpet?
Carpet fibers tend to collect dust, dander, particulate matter, and even volatile organic compounds (VOCs). Hardwood floors, on the other hand, are more impervious to these pollutants.
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President Obama’s New “Working Forest” Program Grants $52.2 Million for 2012
President Obama’s America’s Great Outdoors Initiative has won praise from conservationists and industry groups alike. This balanced program is designed to protect American jobs and conserve the country’s most gorgeous landscapes for future generations. And the Forest Legacy Program in 2012 has granted over $52 million in “working forest” projects!
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Polyurethane versus Waterborne Hardwood Flooring Finishes: Which to Choose?
Whether you are about to embark on a major remodeling or reconstruction project on your Bay Area home, or you are planning a simple refinishing job in preparation to sell your unit or home, you have choices galore to make.
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Trends in Hardwood Flooring for 2012: Exciting (and Surprising!) Innovations…
Let’s face facts: You are a hardwood floor aficionado. You can abide by carpets in certain situations – under very carefully controlled circumstances. But you prefer the beautiful, clean, hardwood floor look. Whether you are remodeling your East Bay condominium, gutting and
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Why Bother to Refinish Your Hardwood Floors in Time for the Holidays?
It’s holiday season, and your relatives, friends, new additions, and possibly some surprise guests will, very soon, be heading your way for a yummy home cooked meal, companionship, and gift giving. In the hustle and bustle to “get everything ready” for Thanksgiving and the December holidays, you need to prioritize. Your time is limited, as are your financial resources and your ability to focus.
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Maple Wood Floors, or Something Else?
Are you doing a remodeling job in your kitchen or rec room? Are you “souping up” a Bay Area condominium to prepare it for eager buyers? Are you redoing your home now that the kids have “left the nest” – and you want to replace those gnarled, natty rugs in their rooms with beautiful, simple, austere hardwood floors?
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When to Use Elegant Floors’ Dust-Free Refinishing Process
Whether you are sprucing up a new home by the Bay that you just closed on; or you want to clean up the much-abused floors since your child left for college, consider taking advantage of Elegant Floors’ Dust Free Refinishing Program.
