Posts Tagged ‘Hardwood Flooring’

Going green…staying green…MAKING GREEN

Okay, time to put in new floors. Why are unfinished wood floors the greenest choice? We know all the choices, we see the cheesy box store offerings, we have had the sticker shock at the boutique, so now what?

Lets make this easy, shall we?

We KNOW we want to be sensible and be as green, Earth friendly as we can be…so no carpet, vinyl or laminates. We know we love natural products, so lets focus on ceramic, stone or hardwood. We know we hate hard and cold and the Doctor has told us that its why our back hurts…so hardwood.

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Looking Forward…To the Way it Was.  Simple Floors

We are becoming more aware as a people. In just my lifetime, I have seen great strides in our abilities to see mistakes and correct them…not always and sometimes its a trial and error at best…but I do feel we try.

I think back to when I was a kid and walked among the trash along the road picking up bottles to take back to the store for refund, 2 cents for a small bottle and a nickel for the quart size. There was litter everywhere, I remember the ad on TV with the American Indian standing along side the road and a car drives by, tosses a bag of trash out the window and it lands at The proud Indians feet…a close up of his face reveals a tear.
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Why is looking for flooring values important? Money is tight so flipping a home is now riskier then ever. Yet to a shrewd investor, there are still opportunities. One might argue that a person with a keen eye and good common sense can actually still do quite well. I have seen such examples first hand, and while some cases in one area won’t work well in another, let me share some basics as they pertain to hardwood flooring.

Make the investment where it is noticed first. As we enter a home or a room, impressions are made, so WOW them from standing in the doorway looking in. An entrance way dome in a smooth, flat and decidedly REAL hardwood will give an immediate impression of quality as well as a psychological feeling of warmth and stability. These ‘impressions’ right off the bat, are very easy to obtain using even inexpensive unfinished flooring and doing a fair or better job of lightly sanding and finishing. A pre-finished floor will be seen as better then cold hard tile or carpet that has no resale value…but its still a cheap ‘quick fix’ look compared to a floor that is site finished. And NEVER insult your would be buyers with the laminate products, they are often seen as something that needs to be removed in order to even sell.

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The Benefits of Wood Flooring for your Health and Your Wealth

As we become more informed, we can prosper. We learn from our mistakes and we strive to not make the same mistakes again.

Wood Flooring - Why?

Obviously I could be talking about hundreds of topics, but today I’m speaking about wood flooring! We have learned about the beauty and durability of wood flooring hundreds of years ago. Then we got tired of the labor of waxing and we were covering up all our wood in the late 60′s and early 70′s with wall to wall carpet. Not long after we replaced or carpets for the ump-teenth time, we started to hear about the ease of maintenance of the new poly urethanes on the market. We KNEW the value because anyone that appraised a home or considered buying a home ALWAYS wanted to know if there was hardwood under the carpet! So back to wood we all went…but wait, there is cheap ceramic tile, how about that?
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