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When they are properly maintained, hardwood floors can last you for generations. Some homes have hardwood floors that have been in place for over a century. However, that does not mean they don’t require some maintenance. If your hardwood floor is starting to look...

This is something that many Oregon Coast vacation homeowners ask themselves. Hardwood flooring is beautiful and resilient, which is why many people want to put it in a house near the beach. You can install hardwood flooring in your beach house; however, you need to be...

Interior design trends come and go almost as quickly as fashion trends. Hardwood flooring is no different. In hardwood flooring, there are just so many trends, though, that it can be difficult to keep track. There are trending widths and lengths for planks, trending...

Cleaning your hardwood floor is a fairly simple matter. You should sweep it from time to time to remove any loose dust and dirt. As long as you have a strong finish on the wood, it should be fine. However, you might want to clean it more deeply occasionally. On tile...

For a long time, the most popular type of hardwood flooring was parquet. Parquet was used in the Palace at Versailles in France. Also, TD Garden in Boston uses parquet hardwood flooring for the basketball court where the Boston Celtics play. The parquet was originally...

When you are looking for hardwood floors, you’ll encounter several different phrases over and over. Sometimes, the manufacturers and retailers don’t properly explain the differences between the kinds of hardwood. Prefinished hardwood flooring, engineered hardwood...

When you are searching for hardwood flooring, you will come across several different species of wood. Hickory is one of the hardest domestic woods and one of the most commonly used. You’ll often see it also called pecan. The basic explanation is that pecans come from...

In most cases, a hardwood floor is made of planks of equal width and equal length. Each plank is probably about six inches wide and between eight and 12 inches long. Those are pretty standard measurements for hardwood flooring planks. However, many homeowners have...