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Three creative ways to keep wet shoes off your hardwood floors
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Three creative ways to keep wet shoes off your hardwood floors

Spring often means rain and lots of it! April showers bring May flowers, but they also bring dripping, wet shoes into your home and onto your beautiful hardwood floors. Do not let soggy shoes dirty up or damage your floors! Minimally, wipe...

Red oak vs white oak hardwood flooring
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Red oak vs white oak hardwood flooring

Hardwood flooring is a popular choice here in Northern Virginia, and for good reason; our summers are quite humid, and our winters don’t get that cold (and when it does, it gets VERY cold). We don’t do things small here in NoVa, which is why...

Protecting hardwood floors in your bathroom
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Protecting hardwood floors in your bathroom

Hardwood floors are trickier to manage in your bathroom, but if you would like hardwood floors throughout your home you can have them! Your design ideas do not have to be limited by the moisture that naturally occurs in bathrooms, there are...

Most popular home gym flooring choices
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Most popular home gym flooring choices

If you can make the space, building an at-home gym is a great investment, not only for your home, but for your health. Once you have that space, the right equipment and your music ready to go, the only thing missing that helps lay the...

Got a bad back? It could be your flooring
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Got a bad back? It could be your flooring

New floors can make a huge difference in a home-making the choice, as we’ve mentioned before, can be difficult. You know what look you want, though, and you make the choice, happy with your decision. A month goes by and your bad knee/back is...

Feng shui and your floors
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Feng shui and your floors

The concept of Feng Shui is very simple: create a positive energy in your home to attract positivity and light. It’s a simple concept; not so simple to translate into a home, especially an established home. But, the truth is, when you invite...

Changing the color of your hardwood
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Changing the color of your hardwood

You may be interested in a home with hardwood floors that are not to your taste or have realized that a different shade of wood would fit in better with your style.  is you can usually change the color of your flooring if you want to!When...

Carpet or hardwood for your basement?
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Carpet or hardwood for your basement?

Finishing a basement can add so much value to your family’s overall needs. With a finished basement you can add an extra area of entertainment, a separate living area for family members, or just have a place for your kids to go and...

Can you add new grout over old?
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Can you add new grout over old?

Grout is the unsung hero in the design world. It can be used in all kinds of tile projects and sometimes can be as important as the tiles themselves. It comes in all different textures and many colors so the possibilities really are endless....

Best wall paint colors for various hardwood floor stains
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Best wall paint colors for various hardwood floor stains

One of the toughest decisions to make in remodeling a room is what color to paint the wall. There are thousands upon thousands of different colors and undertones. Finding the right color can seem almost impossible when you’re searching...