Hardwood Flooring Winter Care Tips

It’s Time for Hardwood Flooring Winter Care Every year around this time I like to offer Hardwood Flooring winter care tips. Here in the Reno/Tahoe area, the two worst enemies to your floor’s finish are standing water and abrasive dirt. Either of which will cause damage to the finish and even the fit. Rain and snow will Read More

Hardwood Floor Contrast Design

Contrast Is King in Reno/Tahoe When choosing the hardwood flooring type and color schemes for your home or office, it’s important to think in terms of hardwood floor contrast design and continuity. Today I want to discuss both dark and light contrast in your hardwood flooring design choices, as a way of integrating continuity throughout Read More

Investment Property Value – Hardwood Flooring

Investment Properties Benefit From Hardwood Flooring Hardwood flooring increases investment property value in the Reno/Tahoe area, whether you like to fix & flip, hold for rent, or rehab and sell for retail. The warm glow or bright shine of  beautifully finished hardwood flooring increases the worth of a home, both in perception and in actual cash value. Read More

Matching Hardwood Stairs to Your Floors

Matching Hardwood Stairs to Hardwood Floors in Your Reno/Tahoe Home Once you’ve decided to install hardwood flooring, it’s hard not to think about matching hardwood stairs as the perfect accent. Because your hardwood flooring is the foundation of the overall design in your Reno/Tahoe home, you’ll want them to be as warm and attractive as Read More

Hardwood Floor Finishing | Reno, Sparks,Tahoe, NV

Hardwood Floor Finishing and Refinishing Hardwood floor finishing and refinishing here in the Reno/Tahoe area may not be as labor intensive as installation, but the process is just as exacting. A wide variety of coatings and finishes are available for you to take advantage of, depending on your needs and taste. It’s important to note Read More

Hardwood Floor Messes | Reno, Tahoe, NV

Hardwood Floor Messes Don’t Need To Be a Nightmare Hardwood floor messes need dealing with immediately, and they often show up unexpectedly, no matter how much we try to avoid them. Extending the life and luster of our wood flooring simply requires we deal with these accidents as they happen in our Reno/Tahoe homes. I’ve made Read More

Cork Flooring – A Sound Choice

Cork Flooring is a Quiet Durable Green Option When most people think of cork, they imagine the easily gouged, porous material used for bulletin-boards. Worse yet, they assume it’s only as strong as the cork they remove from a wine bottle. Happily, today’s cork flooring is a more durable, quiet and green option than most Read More

Hardwood Flooring: More Than Just a Pretty Face

Hardwood Flooring is a Total Experience When most people imagine hardwood flooring, they usually think of the color and lines and all those other visual cues. Yet there are a number of other factors which make hardwood flooring more than just a pretty face. The way it feels, the way it sounds, even the way it smells, all Read More

Fun Hardwood Flooring Design Ideas

Hardwood Flooring Design Allows a Lot of Room for Fun Installing and maintaining your hardwood flooring, is serious work. Meeting deadlines, ensuring quality, exceeding your expectations and making it all look easy, requires a solid work ethic and an inborn need to “get the job done.” I take a lot of personal pride in my Read More

Hardwood Floor Cleaning – Simple Steps and Best Practices

A Clean Hardwood Floor Looks Better, Lasts Longer and is Healthier For You Recently, I wrote to you about the health benefits of hardwood flooring, so I won’t belabor the point again, today. However, in that earlier post I glossed over a very important concept; the best practices for hardwood floor cleaning. Yes, the traditional Read More