It’s easy to mistake vinyl flooring and linoleum. After all, they both look similar when you’re shopping for sheet flooring for your home. You might also find that a lot of homeowners don’t know the difference, and use the words interchangeably when referring to their own flooring. They both offer tough, easily maintained surfaces that...
Are you in the market for new flooring? What kind are you in the market for? There are a variety of choices you can select from to improve the looks of your home. How about hardwood throughout? Or maybe new carpet to keep your floors warm. Want to try something new? You’re going to love...
If you’ve lived in Denver for any length of time, you know temperatures can vary significantly every month of the year. The coldest month is usually January, but that doesn’t mean cold fronts can’t cause temperatures to dip unseasonably low every month of the year. Even in the summer months, you might have to pull...
We’ve been changing the way we work for a long time. Think back to the offices of yesteryear. Almost everyone who worked outside of the home went to the office. Individuals had offices where they could close the doors. Even workers had partitions between them, helping to define their workspace. No more. According to a...
Think back to the coldest day this past winter. There was more than a chill to the air; you might argue you were chilled to the bone. As homeowners, we’re trained to drop the temperatures in our homes while we sleep or while we’re away all day at work or school. Why pay to heat...
Have you noticed almost every home you go into across the Front Range has wood floors? There’s a reason for that. Head back in time, and you’ll find homes predominately used wood for floors. This wasn’t expensive wood, rather it was whatever fit their budgets, often being little more than particleboard. Of course, they didn’t...
I stopped by a friend’s house the other day. She’d invited me over for coffee and conversation. “And bring your dog.” Our puppies grew up together and were great friends. As we entered, I bent down, wiping her paws off with a towel. “Don’t worry about it. The floors are beyond repair anyway. There isn’t...
According to the Oxford dictionary, the word acclimate means: To become accustomed to a new climate or to new conditions. To respond physiologically or behaviourally to a change in an environmental factor under controlled conditions. Whether you’re redecorating a room or remodeling sections of your home, the word acclimate as it applies to your flooring...
One of my favorite things to do is to visit the homes taking part in the Parade of Homes each year. There you can see the latest-and-greatest of everything for your home. Ideas are in abundance, and you can take a lot of them home with you and implement them into your own remodeling plans....
Nothing can help you relax more after a long, hard day than sharing a bottle of wine with your friends. While some prefer to go out and select a bottle from the wine list at their favorite restaurant, others turn wine into a passion they bring into their homes. A recent report from the National...