Friday Fiscals: Tearing up the carpet

We’re ditching our wall-to-wall carpet in much of our house in favor of some laminate flooring. Our dogs don’t quite know what to do with the new hard surfaces. Anyway, some links of interest for you: Wise Bread serves up a guest post on seventeen resources for improving your small business . Five Cent Nickel writer Matt Jabs discusses financial peace through planning . Generation X Finance runs down the best deals for the fall season . Squawkfox posts on how to save heir

Create A New Look for your Room with an Area Rug

T he advent of the area rug has finally come. With so many people enjoying the hard wood flooring style that is popular these days and which can be found in many homes currently. The brightness of hardwood is always accented by a nice modern area rug. The best thing about hard wood floors is the use of area rugs and all the benefits they offer. Wall to wall carpeting used to be all the rage which was ok as long as you didn’t want anything in your home décor to change. Area rugs allow a mix

New Fall Collection from FLOR – Giveaway

About FLOR Launched in the spring of 2003 as part of the Interface, Inc. family of companies, FLOR is a coordinated design system of 19.7‐inch squares that allows people to freely and easily mix and match colors, patterns and textures in countless ways as area rugs, runners or wall‐to‐wall carpeting. photo courtesy of FLOR.com FLOR’s innovative and beautiful squares offer a practical, flexible and eco‐friendly flooring solution perfect for homes and offices alike. FLOR’s dedication

Area Rugs can Change the Entire Look of a Room

The area rug era has arrived. With so many people enjoying the hard wood flooring style that is popular these days and which can be found in many homes currently. The shine of hardwood works well with a nice modern area rug. The best thing about hard wood floors is the use of area rugs and all the benefits they offer. For many years the going fad was to have wall to wall carpeting, which is great if you would like to keep your home manifestly singular in color. Area rugs allow a mix and matc

My Wilsonart Experience: Selecting Eco-Friendly Laminate Wood Flooring

I’ve ranted and raved more than once before about how much I hate living with wall-to-wall carpet. Well, a few months ago, I was contacted by a representative of flooring company Wilsonart to tell me about an innovative green product: their laminate wood flooring. I know what you’re thinking, because I was thinking the same thing. How could laminate flooring possibly be eco-friendly, right? After asking lots of questions, it turns out Wilsonart’s line of laminate flooring is a pretty nice shade

My Wilsonart Experience: Selecting Eco-Friendly Laminate Wood Flooring

I’ve ranted and raved more than once before about how much I hate living with wall-to-wall carpet. Well, a few months ago, I was contacted by a representative of flooring company Wilsonart to tell me about an innovative green product: their laminate wood flooring. I know what you’re thinking, because I was thinking the same [...] © 2009 Green Your Decor . Do not republish any items from this feed without permission. My Wilsonart Experience: Selecting Eco-Friendly Laminate Wood Flooring

Get a Different Look with a New Area Rug

The era of the area rug is finally here. With so many people enjoying the hard wood flooring style that is popular these days and which can be found in many homes currently. The brightness of hardwood is always accented by a nice modern area rug. The best thing about hard wood floors is the use of area rugs and all the benefits they offer. For many years the going fad was to have wall to wall carpeting, which is great if you would like to keep your home manifestly singular in color. Area rug

Carpet Laying and Estimating Handbook

Carpet Laying and Estimating Handbook

A helpful guide to every aspect of estimating and laying wall-to-wall carpeting, in both residential homes and commercial establishments; authoritative answers to every problem encountered by the carpet layer or salesman, dealer or distributor, and homeowner. Based on curent carpet laying and estimating techniques, as approved by the r

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The Flooring Handbook The Complete Guide to Choosing and Installing Floors

The Flooring Handbook The Complete Guide to Choosing and Installing Floors

The complete guide to choosing and installing floors.

Wall-to-wall carpet is no longer the only option for cost-conscious or do-it-yourself home decorators. The Flooring Handbook reveals the extensive variety of flooring options available today that can add function, beauty and comfort to any area of a home.

Packed with practical information, The Flooring Handbook is a comprehensive reference that provides the latest in flooring materials and methods. This book describes the benefits of the basic flooring types in three broad categories: hard, semi-hard and soft, including: – Hardwood – Ceramic – Tile – Carpet – Cork – Linoleum (looking nothing like you remember it) – Laminates – Slate, stone and marble – Leather, felt, rubber and steel

Detailed step-by-step instructions and illustrations show how to lay different types of flooring under various circumstances. Color photographs of finished rooms demonstrate how various materials work to the best effect in a home. The Flooring Handbook is a comprehensive reference for designers, decorators and homeowners — whether doing it themselves or hiring a professional.

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5 Stars A comprehensive guide
This is an excellent book, by far the best I have ever bought on flooring maintenance and installation (I wish I had bought this one first). This book offers great comparisons of different types of materials, well written and simple instructions on how to install them and advice on when to get a professional if your an amatuer such as myself. This book is a great resource and will help you make an informed decision if your putting in a new floor, whether you do it yourself or not.

5 Stars An Excellent Resource
We’re refinishing our hardwood flooring and adding laminate to the playroom downstairs, but I wanted to do some research before spending any money. I checked out several books on flooring from the library, and this was the only one that was so thorough I immediately went out and purchased my own copy. Not only does it cover hardwoods and laminates, it covers just about every flooring material you can imagine (leather, rubber, cork, bamboo, etc.). Every material gets a solid description, several pictures, a list of pros and cons, and installation instructions. Also, a big chart in the front tells you which floors can be installed yourself and which need professional installers. It also gives number ratings for the difficulty of the task (should you take it on yourself) and for how much you can expect to spend in comparison with other flooring materials.

This book is simply the definitive resource on the subject.

4 Stars Good overview
This book provides a very good overview of the different types of flooring. It also provides some useful tricks. I recently installed 17′x17′ hardwood bamboo floor for a friend whose house is on a slab. We had to install a vapor barrier and if you read this book you’ll notice that the author and the references are generally from the UK. So if you walk into a flooring distributor and ask for some of the products Jeffries mentioned, you will get some weird looks. But the trick about using tape to hold the boards while the glue dried was invaluable.

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