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How Does Flooring Affect Home Value?
From the best color carpet to sell your home to the value of hardwood floor, we break down all you need to know to boost your home’s value with flooring alone.
How Water Damage Ruins Your Bathroom Floor
Your bathroom is a relatively small area compared to the other rooms in your home. A place you go to relax and shower, use the toilet, and get ready in front of the mirror. It's also the one spot in your home where you use the most water. With so many faucets, pipes,...
How To Get Rid of New Carpet Smell
Learn seven ways you can get rid of new carpet smell and one way you can help to prevent it during installation.
The Best Flooring Options for Florida Homes
Skip to a Section Click below to jump to a specific section What Makes a Florida's Flooring Needs Unique The Best Wood Flooring in Florida: Engineered Wood What is Engineered Wood? Where is Engineered Wood Best Used? Why Does Engineered Wood Work Great in Florida? The...
How to Remove Tile Flooring
Installing a new floor involves a lot of prep work, including removing the old tiles. While you could just cover up the old tiles with the new ones, removing the tiles instead has a lot of advantages. These include checking on the health of your subfloor and seeing if...
What’s the Difference Between Linoleum and Vinyl?
Read our comprehensive guide to learn the difference between linoleum and vinyl flooring to decide which one is right for your home.
What Is the Average Price Per Square Foot of Carpet?
The average price per square ft. of carpet is $2. Is the Price of Padding Included? Padding usually isn’t included in the price of the carpet. Some companies may include the padding for free, but the cost of the padding is usually made up elsewhere, either in the cost...
How to Install Laminate Flooring on Your Own (DIY)
Table of Contents Click below to jump to a specific section How much can I save? How long does it take? General tips What supplies do I need? What tools do I need? Tips on purchasing laminate flooring How much laminate do I need? Why do I need underlayment? What are...
Types of Craftsman Flooring
The American Craftsman style of home exemplifies handcrafted quality and locally sourced, natural materials. Starting at the end of the 19th century, the Craftsman style showed the rise of the middle class, moving away from the vast and opulatant Victorian...
Guide to Selecting Environmentally Safe Flooring
You recycle, you compost, you avoid unnecessary chemicals and you bring your reusable grocery bags to Publix every week… now how about some eco-friendly flooring for your home!? That’s right, there are flooring choices that can better support your going-green...
The Best Flooring Options for A Colonial Home
Colonial architecture, popularized in the 1600s, has continued to be prevalent in the United States ever since. With symmetrical aspects throughout, such as shuttered windows, dormers, columns, and chimneys, this rather formal style can be found throughout...
The Best Flooring Options for A Contemporary Home
As far as home style trends go, contemporary seems like it is here to stay and for good reason. Who doesn't love the sleek, minimalistic and refined style of the newer contemporary homes? If you're interested in creating a contemporary style for your home,...
Signs to Replace Your Carpet
Carpet creates a cozy, soft surface in your home and is great for families, but it doesn't last forever. If you're starting to notice that your carpet doesn't look, smell, sound, or feel as great as it used to, here are some signs that it's time for a replacement or...
3 Useful Tips When Choosing Colored Tiles
Tile flooring is not new to everyone. You can see tile flooring on offices and homes. It’s easy to install and there’s a variety of options on how to clean and maintain its original form. Whether you choose frosted or the shiny ones it’s up to you. But what about the...
Could New Flooring Be Better for Your Health?
We do many things with our health in mind, but selecting flooring is usually not one of them. Failing to think of health when choosing new flooring could be a mistake, however, as floors can be around for years to come and can impact the health of you and your family...
You’re Going with Tile! Now What?
When you’ve decided that you’re going to tile your home, it can be exciting. Tile is cool and easy to clean, which can seem particularly appealing during the warm, wet Florida summers. It’s easy to get carried away with an impulse buy and bring home tile with little...
Choosing the Perfect Floor for You
You have a variety of options when choosing a floor. Hardwood, laminate, carpet, and tile are the most popular, but how do you choose between them? Let’s take a look at a few of the qualities of each. Hardwood Hardwood floors are made of 100% wood and hardwood has a...
Why Wood-look Tile?
Wood-look tile is the prominent floor covering in the current flooring market. Flooring HQ supplies over 200 wood-look tile options that will make your property stand out from the rest! Wood-look tile is composed of either porcelain or ceramic tile with a wood grain...
Explore Your Options When Choosing Laminate
Laminate flooring has many advantages, including affordability, comfort, and ease of installation. However, one of the advantages that many don’t think of when selecting laminate flooring is versatility. There are now more options than ever before when it comes to...
Carpet Installation 101
Carpet can add comfort and warmth to a room that’s not easily attainable with other flooring materials. Carpet is an affordable option, but installing it yourself can make it even more affordable. Before taking on a carpet installation project, however, make sure that...
What You Should Know About Cutting Tile
Tile is a very versatile flooring material that comes in many different patterns, shapes, and sizes. This makes it a great option that can add personality and elegance to a space, while also being durable enough to last years. Unfortunately, many people are...
Should You Go with Laminate or Hardwood?
Wood flooring looks beautiful and is a desirable flooring option for many homes. The warm hues and gorgeous grains can add class and a certain timelessness to a room. Both hardwood and laminate can help to achieve this look, but each has pros and cons that should be...