Posts Tagged ‘prefinished wood floors’

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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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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