Green building products continue to be a burgeoning flooring category across all flooring mediums. In the hardwood flooring sector this commitment to environmental responsibility has been expressed in a move towards third party certified lumber procurement, increased raw material yields through advancements in manufacturing techniques and through the use of lumber reclaimed from barns, wine barrels and old buildings to make flooring.
Floors are not only where a person walks, but also can be works of art if done with care. Wood floors create beauty and design that carpet can never hope to match. Here are some new and innovative ways builders are making rooms beautiful and one of a kind.
Why are wood floors healthier and make it easier for everyone to breathe?
>1. Wood is a natural material and wood oils often have a strongly anti-bacterial action. Wood floors, unlike carpets, do not trap and accumulate concentrations of harmful chemicals and fumes, nor do they become homes for unpleasant parasites.(cont.)
Although we are a flooring company, this building was so impressive, as recently seen in the newest Mission Impossible film, that we thought we would share some facts about this monument to human achievement. (Plus, it’s so large there has to be an engineered wood floor somewhere in it.)
Whatever type of wood floor you are looking for any room in your house, we have what you need. From bringing light to an otherwise dark bedroom, or creating a warm space within your living room, there is a type of engineered wood floor that can bring the home to life. Here is our line of Engineered Wood Floor we presently provide.
Everyone looks for inspiration. Below are several different beautiful engineer wood flooring types to give life to different rooms within the home.
The images below are from a contractor in Vancouver, BC, who has discovered new uses for wood flooring.
Often individuals ask,“Is engineered flooring real wood?” The answer is simple, “Yes it is.” Engineered wood flooring consists of layered tiers of real wood pressed together to form a structure that has the same beauty of solid wood flooring, while allowing an ease in installation and stability. The real wood surface layer is available in many different wood types, designs and finishes, and is also available in many different thicknesses.
There are so many ways that a wood floor can bring beauty to a home. Creating an elegant, graceful, clean and beautiful aesthetic to your home is easy and with the added benefit of a flooring solution that will last a lifetime, the benefits far outweigh the cost.
Do you want a more rustic look in your home? If it’s the rustic look, perhaps a hand-scraped hardwood floor would be attractive. This option offers a surface on which a craftsman has carefully sculpted the contours of the natural wood by scraping the surface of the hardwood. The result is a very stylish surface that also has a more “lived in” look. With all of these considerations, along with the colors offered by various species of hardwood and the various stains which are also available, Real Wood Floors is the option that provides you considerable flexibility in terms of look and feel.
Wood flooring, and hard flooring surfaces generally, have grown in popularity in the past decade. This is due to health concerns, style, new products and ease of care. Since 2003, demand for floor covering in the U.S. was 29.3 billion square feet with hard flooring surfaces accounting for 30.5% or 8.9 billion square feet.
The direction that wood flooring is laid in a home has much to do with personal preference, however, there are some basic pieces of advice to follow:
Sustainable forest management has made the impact of the hard wood floors industry almost non-existent to the environment because of the renewable resource of the trees can be re-used indefinitely for a lifetime. As the harvesting and planting efforts work in tandem to insure little to no impact on forests, here are 10 other ways hardwood floors are great for the environment.
Follow these helpful tips provided by NWFA (National Wood Floor Association) to provide preventive maintenance to your Real Wood Floors’ flooring. It will extend the beauty and life span of the investment to the home.
Wood flooring can be finished in numerous different ways. Some finishes are burnished into the wood, some are natural oils that harden over time, some are a top coating that actually builds a film of protective finish over the wood and others chemically bond to the wood fibers to seal the wood from being able to absorb moisture, dirt, etc. To cover all these topics in depth I could write a full length book which is not the point of this blog. However I would like to touch on a few trends that are becoming more apparent in the industry that have to do with finishes.
Floors are not only where a person walks, but also can be works of art if done with care. Wood floors create beauty and design that carpet can never hope to match. Here are some new and innovative ways builders are making rooms beautiful and one of a kind.
Why are wood floors healthier and make it easier for everyone to breathe?
>1. Wood is a natural material and wood oils often have a strongly anti-bacterial action. Wood floors, unlike carpets, do not trap and accumulate concentrations of harmful chemicals and fumes, nor do they become homes for unpleasant parasites.(cont.)
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