Terrazzo, Waterjet Technology Allow Complex Flooring Designs

In praise of terrazzo as a flooring material, and the innovations now possible with epoxy binder and waterjet-cut aluminum forms.

Laminate Flooring, A Floor For All Seasons?

Because laminates are stress resistant, they can be engineered for use most anywhere in the home, including wet areas such as the kitchen.

Pros and Cons of using Real Wood Flooring

Using wood flooring has bigger advantages than the other flooring materials. Its simplicity can instantly add beauty to your home.

Bamboo Flooring - Is It For You?

Bamboo flooring has exploded in popularity since the mid nineties. It's become trendy and more and more consumers in the western world are turning to it. But before you go out and spend your budget on a new bamboo floor, just make sure you do a little due diligence. It will save you plenty in the long run. www.bamboogalore.com

The Easy Way to Install Vinyl Flooring

Installing vinyl flooring is one of those home improvement projects that is well within the ability of the average homeowner to accomplish. It may seem a little intimidating at first, but once you have done just one room you should have the confidence to be able to tackle almost any vinyl flooring job. Here is the easy way to install vinyl flooring in your home.

Two Common Flooring Decorating Traps Almost All Customers Fall Into

Having worked with flooring customers and interior decorators, the biggest decorating traps customers fall into are:

Laminate Flooring - Everything You Need To Know

Detailed information describing what laminate flooring is and where it came from. Describes what laminate floring is made from along with how it is made. Finshing off with the different grades of flooring and which areas best to use each grade.

Picture Perfect Floors: A Guide To Laminate Flooring

Learn: what laminate flooring is and why it’s different from hardwood flooring, what an AC rating is and why it is important to the consumer, about tongue and groove and locking systems for laminate floors, a list of dos and don’t for laminate flooring

Are You Ready For A Love Affair - with Laminate Flooring?

Laminate flooring has many benefits over other flooring types and is fast gaining recognition as the floor to choose when it comes to home improvement projects. Discover why laminate has become such a popular choice and why so many people have come to absolutely adore their floor.

Hard Wood Flooring

Hardwood floors have always been very popular. Hardwood flooring is also being done in customized patterns like borders, medallions, motifs, hand-distressing, painting, mixed media and stains. With advanced technology, hardwood floors have become very affordable, as well as extremely easy to maintain. Oak has become very popular in the last few years. Cherry, white oak, birch and maple are other popular woods. Hardwood flooring can be categorized as unfinished, pre-finished, acrylic, impregnated, solid and engineered, based on the kind of manufacturing process used.

Bamboo Flooring - More Eco-Friendly than Hardwood Flooring and Bamboo Flooring is Easy to Fit

The modern, environmentally friendly and durable alternative to hardwood is bamboo flooring. Being a grass, as opposed to timber, gives bamboo the edge as a not only a building product (being strong and at the same time flexible), but also as a sustainable resource:

Why be Careful When Picking Laminate Flooring Colour?

If you intend to buy laminate flooring for your house there are a few things you should consider first. For example, what if you have natural maple cabinets/bookshelves/ etc. all through your house and now you want to put in laminate flooring. What would be best then; stay with the natural maple for the flooring or go with a cherry that has more contrast?

Pergo Presto Glueless Laminate Flooring

One of the newest most innovative laminate flooring products on the market is Pergo Presto. Pergo Presto is a glueless laminate floor that is installed by sliding the pieces into one another by the way of groove and tongue. There is no gluing and no wetting with Pergo Presto, just the simple application. This new floor type by Prego is a great solution for people who enjoy to do-it-yourself, and who have the financial leeway for the convenience of a glue-free laminate floor.

Laminate Flooring Installation Guidelines

One way to add value to your home is to consider laminate flooring installation. Laminate floors combine the beauty and elegance of hard wood, or tile floors with the easy maintenance of linoleum or vinyl flooring. Constructed from a high density fiber (HDF) wood board topped with a wood or stone pattern, laminate flooring is incredibly durable.