When it comes to hardwood flooring planks, there are two basic kinds: site finished and prefinished. Prefinished hardwood is also known as factory finished because it is stained and sealed by the manufacturer before it’s ever sold. Site finished hardwood is often sold...
When you look across social media and other interior design spaces, distressed wood is everywhere. There are two basic ways to get distressed wood; you can buy genuinely aged wood that has been through years of stress, or you can buy new wood that has been distressed....
Keeping your wood flooring safe while moving or bringing in new furniture or even remodeling can be done with the right precautionary steps. The key to protecting any wood floor is to plan ahead and use precautionary measures. Just like we protect our floor from...
If you browse any of the design boards, magazines or instagram accounts you may notice wide plank white oak is extremely popular. This is for good reason. White oak is jaw droppingly beautiful. The beauty of white oak is one thing but you may wonder what it looks like...
If you have been shopping for hardwood flooring you may have discovered there are an overwhelming amount of variables. There are a lot of questions you will need to consider to find the right wood options for your home and family. A very common question when it comes...
Water popping is a process that includes adding a layer to water to your sanded wood before staining. Waterpopping is done with a few different application methods- a wet towel can be rubbed over the floor, applied with a mop or sprayed on with a mister. The water...
Hardwood flooring hasn’t been the most affordable option for flooring in decades; now, there are several synthetic products that cost you less money. Some of them even attempt to look like hardwood. However, they cannot adequately recreate the look, the feel, and the...
It can be difficult to accurately estimate how long a hardwood floor will last because there are so many factors that can affect it. The state of the subfloor will help determine how long the floor lasts. The way you treat the floor will be important as well. Also,...
If you’ve spent more than a minute on social media sites looking for inspiration for your hardwood flooring, you’ve likely seen white hardwood floors everywhere. They come in a few varieties. They can be stained white, white washed, painted, or just plain white wood....
The short answer is “no.” Prefinished hardwood flooring and engineered hardwood flooring might seem like the same thing but they’re actually very different. The names refer to two different steps in the process. Put simply, prefinished hardwood can be engineered or...
