The Simple Patios Product Line is exemplary of everything FloorMall has based its success on. Great, well made products at remarkably competitive prices. This selection of quality patio furniture has specifically been priced lower than any of the other brands found online. And to prove that FloorMall stands behind the quality of the Simple Patios product line, each piece of furniture is covered with a 50 year warranty.

When you buy from Simple Patios you get peace of mind, free shipping and great outdoor furniture at rock bottom prices. And while it’s true that FloorMall has only recently entered the patio furnishings market, they’ve already managed to amass a huge collection of outdoor furniture. So whether you’re looking for chaise lounges, swings or wood tiles–Simple Patios will have products you can trust.

by Crissy on June 29, 2010

FloorMall.com, the leading online source for premium flooring, is pleased to offer a new and exciting product line featuring high-end outdoor patio furniture. By offering this marriage of quality flooring with luxury outdoor furnishings, FloorMall.com provides its customers the unique opportunity to one-stop-shop from an extraordinary selection of brands, and to fully realize the outdoor living space of their dreams.

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Patios are often an area of relaxation and respite, especially during the warm spring and summer months, so creating a functional and attractive outdoor living space that can be enjoyed by the entire family is important. Installing new hardwood flooring, or resurfacing existing concrete with hardwood deck tiles, is an excellent way to truly highlight the elegance and beauty of your new patio furniture.

Hardwood flooring perfectly compliments a range of patio furniture styles, and adds warmth and richness to your outdoor living space. Thanks to the new selection of quality patio furniture now available at FloorMall.com, you could be enjoying a cool drink while reclined in your new chaise lounge in no time!

For those who enjoy life at a faster tempo, your patio is undoubtedly a hub of social activity and fun throughout much of the year. Holidays, parties, or even casual get-togethers with close family and friends are always most memorable when enjoyed in a comfortable outdoor living space. While premium hardwood deck tiles are certainly visually appealing, they are also quite durable, and hold up great against harsh sun, moisture, and the inevitable foot traffic of any well-used outdoor living area. Wood slats also allow water to easily flow through, so designing a functional poolside paradise in your back yard is simple when you shop at FloorMall.com.

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Whether you have been day-dreaming of the perfect backyard patio, want to revitalize your existing space, or perhaps even hope to add value to your home by installing new deck flooring and outdoor furniture, FloorMall.com now offers an easy way to meet all of your online shopping needs.

Visit FloorMall.com today to browse the internet’s best selection of flooring, and of course, their fabulous new collection of luxury outdoor patio furnishings.

Finding flooring at the lowest prices online can be challenging when there are so many retailers to choose from. Your best bet is browse the catalog blowout sales at FloorMall.com. FloorMall is one of the largest and most trusted online shopping destinations for flooring, and because of this they are able to offer customers catalog blowout sales that are truly unrivaled, providing you with a quick and easy way to purchase flooring at the best prices.

During your next visit to FloorMall.com, you will notice a catalog blowouts button under the main flooring navigation, near the top of your screen. Upon clicking into this section, you will be prompted to enter your email address in order to gain access to FloorMall’s exclusive members-only pricing. With just a few quick clicks of your mouse, you will be transported to a screen containing an incomparable selection of flooring products at amazingly low prices, including deals on hardwood, laminates, tile, vinyl, cork, bamboo, carpet and even area rugs.

Some of the catalog blowout highlights include from the hardwood flooring section, Mohawk Hand-Sculpted Santa Barbara Harvest Oak at only $3.60 per square foot, from the laminates section Shaw Laminates Natural Values Kings Canyon Cherry at an amazing $0.99 per square foot, and from the tile section, Daltile Glazed Porcelain Field Tile Travertine Tan 13 x 13 for $0.95 per square foot. You will find a variety of fantastic deals in each of the flooring categories in the blowouts section at FloorMall.com, and visiting the section often will keep you up to date with the latest additions.

If you are working on a do-it-yourself project in your home this summer that includes new flooring installation, or if you are just seeking the best possible deals on flooring< , FloorMall.com's catalog blowouts offer you a good deal!

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Are you sliding on your floors, even though you don’t want to?   Some floors become tilted due to earthquakes and settling.   Test your floors by carefully placing a tennis ball in several parts of the room.   If the ball rolls, there’s a tilt, and you can call in an expert to give you an evaluation.  They may have to level off your floors by jacking them up with concrete pylons.  This may sound horrendous but it’s not usually that bad.  Watch your roof though — some timbers become bowed up do the pressure.  Once your floor is level you will probably have to put some new flooring in.  Take a look at the floormall.com website and it can show you the wide variety that’s available.

Your subfloors need to be smooth and glue and nail free if you’re putting in some flooring.  Scrape off any old bumpy products and sweep them up.  Test the level of it by using the old tennis ball again.  Make sure that you have the proper adhesive or nails and the proper underlayment if required.  There’s new bamboo flooring out that snaps together and it already has attached cork backing to cushion your steps.  That’s one easy floor to lay down for the do-it-yourselfer.  Bamboo flooring is a great and very renewable flooring because it grows so fast and it’s not a tree.  Be careful of using a small office chair with hard wheels on it, because you can dent it.  A chair mat is a very easy solution.  There are all kinds of bamboo flooring options at floormall.com.

Old houses often settle quite a bit due to age.  Most of the time there’s not a problem but if you feel like it’s happening a lot you can get a professional to come out and evaluate your “tilt factor”.  Flooring choices depend on several factors.  If you want a cushiony feel then you may not want tiles.   If you want carpet, make sure that no-one in the family is allergic, as well as knowing how to clean it.  How many people walk around on which room’s floor every day, and how often.  It’s not easy to pass by the general versatility of real hardwood floors.   Take a look at some of the gorgeous colors and types of woods they show on floormall.com’s site.

Today, we can choose whatever we fancy in the way of flooring.  Materials can be imported from most any area of the world.  There’s exotics like Tigerwood or Mahogany, renewable resources like bamboo, beautiful marble and granite and manmade linoleum (part of which is often recycled), plus almost anything else you can think of. Some floors are made from polished concrete or glass.  Now, the latter is enough to make you dizzy because it seems like you are walking on air!  If you want to keep your feet on the ground, take a look at the floormall.com website and choose from some of the hundreds of different kinds of flooring they list for your shopping pleasure.

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Real antique hardwood can also be reclaimed.  There are barns in the country and even reclaimed or recycled lumber and hardware stores and lots.  People here take old wood that has a lot of life left in it and make it smooth and even and of a fairly consistent size, then sell it to people wanting the genuine article.  There are even companies that recycle timber which has been sunken at the bottom of a lake or river for a hundred years or more.  This is in logging areas that have usually been abandoned.  This wood has a beautiful sheen and texture to it because it’s been underwater.  A homeowner can install this wood into their homes and know that it is really old, and that it will add a fantastic look to their modern or period home.  At floormall.com they have a body of knowledge which anyone can access, and it has many tips on flooring and related products.

If you are refinishing your own hardwood floors, it’s good to see what thickness remains so you don’t find yourself buffing through to the back of the planks, and maybe even see daylight coming through!  If there’s enough thickness left for buffing and if you don’t own a floor buffer, then renting one is a great option.  After buffing and smoothing then you can seal and apply stain in the proper sequence and then finish as appropriate.  You may have a damaged section of flooring that needs replacing and this can be a little trickier.  Perhaps you have some saved sections of the flooring and then you can replace the damaged part, buff off and then re-stain the entire floor etc.  Check out what stain you want at floormall.com, as well as a huge selection of different hardwoods if you need to redo your entire floor.

Any which way you look at it, old floors, whether real or created, add ambience to any type of home.  Of course, you may decide on an entirely new type of floor for a brand new look.  See what floormall.com has to offer — and they have professional installers as well as all of the materials you could ever need!

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      Who, in their right mind at least, would enjoy paying, for instance, two dollars for a cork tile, when they can pay one dollar?  This is what Marc Henderson, founder of Floormall.com thought of, when he first conceived of this great online company.  Floormall.com has been in existence for over seven years.  They strive to achieve the lowest possible prices for their customers by working closely with manufacturers both large and small, in order to obtain those generous discounts.

Floormall.com has had some extremely interesting requests from customers.  One of the most memorable was a request put in by the South Eastern Railway Museum in Duluth Georgia.  They wanted to restore the Warren G. Harding train, and needed fine tile along the lines of that which had been used in a few Pullman rail cars from the 1920s.  Floormall.com is proud to be able to help the museum restore a prized piece of our American history. This will make the Pullman car available for future generations to see, and admire.

As of June 15th, 2010, Floormall.com has joined forces with simpleFLOORS and they can now offer the latter company’s flooring to residential and commercial markets and others.  Floormall.com is also able to showcase Kathy Ireland’s area rugs, which come from manufacturer Shaw Industries.  Another website, Unfinishedflooring.com, was launched on May 13, 2009 and it focuses on unfinished wood species.  They also provide tips and advice on how to best work with the different kinds of woods. This site is geared towards DIY enthusiasts in particular.

With 483 store locations, Ann Taylor Loft chose 12″ x 12″ onyx black floor tiles from Mohawk Colorations, for their floors.  The world’s largest museum complex, the Smithsonian Institution, purchased unfinished White Oak 4″ x 0.75″.  ZPizza, which is a rapidly growing chain of gourmet health-conscious pizza stores, chose Marazzi I Sigilli , Roghe Cotto 12″x12″.  Floormall.com prides itself on saving homeowners time and money with their flooring projects, and they are also proud of the fact of being able to serve major retailers and institutions as well.

Another such retailer is Banana Republic, and they purchased three-inch prefinished Brazilian Teak.  Jessica McClintock used her skills learned at an early age from her grandmother to become a fashion icon to an entire generation. McClintock purchased engineered wood called Ash Polar and it was stained white, for a lovely romantic look.  Planet Fitness, an extraordinary gym, chose hard-wearing flooring in Pergo Elegant Expressions, an 8″ plank with underlayment, in a Berkshire Oak finish.  Stone Lodge, which creates single-family homes built as mountain homestead lodges, is located in Southern Vermont. They brought prefinished Red Oak Antique Honey into their homes to create just the right, exquisite touch.

On February 25, 2009, Floormall and BuildDirect formed an alliance. They will be offering some of the companies hard surface products such as Yanchi Bamboo, Lamton and Toklo laminates.  BuildDirect usually sells large pallets and container loads to the public, but Floormall will now sell smaller quantities, so that anyone may put this wonderful product in their homes.   At Floormall.com’s site you can explore and discover and ask questions about hundreds of flooring products.  This site, and company has it all there for you to view at your leisure, whether at midnight, or noon. 

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As we move into Summer, thoughts of the holidays may already be looming in the back of your mind.  If there’s always a large crowd over at your house for Thanksgiving or Hannukah or Christmas and New Year’s, consider re-doing your dining room.  The floors may need replacing, and the walls repainting, and perhaps you need a new dining table.    What type of flooring is best for a dining area?  A solid and non-porous surface is easier to clean.  It could be hardwood, laminate, tiles, linoleum, or something else.  If you have no idea what you’d like then looking through a virtual catalog, such as the ones they have at floormall.com, may inspire you.

Some flooring is easier to install than others.  Click and lock or floating floors are the easiest.  A piece of linoleum would be okay and it’s super-easy to put down, and there isn’t any worry that it’ll look old-fashioned, these days.  That would be good for an informal dining room but if you have a more formal one as well, then hardwood flooring or stone or ceramic tiles may work better.  They can be a little harder to install but a pro could be hired as well as getting more info on the process through floormall.com.  Spacers should be used and there are different placement patterns for ceramic or stone tiles. 

Sealing the floor that’s in a dining room is crucial because of spills.  Tiles and their grout can be sealed, as well as hardwood flooring.  Linoleum is already sealed and vinyl is as well. After you install your new dining room floor, or have it installed, get some advice on what type of cleaning products to use.   When the dining room has been refreshed you can decide on whether you want to use your old dining table and chairs, or get some new ones.   Whatever choice you make you’ll want your new floor to be showcased!  A homeowner may also want a rug (cleanable) under the dining table.  After everything is done you can work on the extra-fun part — a centerpiece.

Centerpieces can be seasonal and changed, or year round and an eclectic grouping of your favorite things.  If you have candles in your centerpiece and plan on burning them, then be aware of what’s touching their bases, as well as the fact that unscented candles need to be used around food.  Guests want to smell your good cooking and not orange blossom or another strong scent.  You can create a centerpiece from found natural objects or a few interesting flea market finds.  Don’t overpower the table and leave room for the dinner plates!  Themes around holiday time work wonderfully, but be sure that the decorations are in keeping with the rest of your house, and subdued rather than flamboyant.  For flooring tips about the rest of your house, check out the pages at floormall.com

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After you figure out your floors, and always be sure and calculate for a little extra in case of damage a few years down the road, and you’ve decided on how you want your walls to look, then determine what type of furniture you want, and if there’s room for a nice wet bar over in a corner.  If you have a larger room or basement you can put the bar against a back wall for that real pub look.  There has to be room for a big-screen TV so figure out where that’s going and if you have the right satellite or cable connections.   Allow space in case you want a bigger TV down the road, and look to make some built-in storage for the satellite receiver, PVR etc.  A rug is always nice on the floor and it can help define the seating area.   For some great alternative floor coverings, check out floormall.com.

If your home is a bit tight on space for guests, for instance, there’s furniture out there that can make you man cave into a guest room/office/media room, so it will be truly multi-purpose.  Murphy beds come in modern configurations and there’s one that, when it’s folded up, has a desk that you can use.  Bookshelves are available and putting one on either side could counterbalance your TV wall at the other end of the man-cave. Think about your sofas and chairs.  Arranging them on the floor in a shape that enables everyone to see the TV will create the right atmosphere.  Consider buying some carpet tiles from floormall.com and use them under your coffee table.  If you buy a few extras, there will be no worry about stains on the carpet, because you can just replace that piece. 

You can sketch you man-cave concept out first and then rearrange (in your head) anything that doesn’t work out.  If you reach a stumbling block then a visit to the “university” at floormall.com may help you over it.  Because your man-cave may be subjected to several parties, always be sure that your flooring and furniture are durable, attractive, and easy to keep clean!

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It is with great excitement that Floormall.com announces it will now be offering simpleFLOORS’ design-conscious flooring to residential and commercial markets.

Online retailer FloorMall.com has entered into a partnership with flooring vendor simpleFLOORS and will be selling their high quality, privately labeled flooring products. They’re excited to team with simpleFLOORS because of the companies dedication to providing customers with wood flooring options that are affordable and high fashion. Like FloorMall, simpleFLOORS is a privately held, self-funded organization which allows them to focus on the quality of their products and their customers. In these tough economic times this alliance will help both companies continue their mission of high quality flooring at low prices.

At the heart of this partnership is what FloorMall CEO and founder Marc Henderson calls, “The evolution of the consumer.” He describes a growing number of customers who don’t want to spend a month comparing prices and products in various storefront locations. Instead, they seek out reliable online retailers like FloorMall to quickly find products, compare prices and speak to knowledgeable customer service representatives. Henderson sees this alliance between FloorMall and simpleFLOORS as a way to provide additional quality to their growing consumer base.

Henderson also said he is regularly contacted by companies to create similar relationships but turns most of these offers down due to the strict criteria he has for FloorMall’s partners. But for him, the choice to partner with simpleFLOORS was an easy one. “While we’re always very careful as to what companies we decide to work with, we jumped at the chance to partner with simpleFLOORS. They have a great reputation in the community and are well known for their quality flooring,” he said. “This partnership isn’t about cornering the market or making more money, it’s about illustrating how easy it is for online companies to do business with each other.”

FloorMall has already entered into similar partnerships with BuildDirect and Blackriverfloors.com and they’re dedicated to carefully building relationships with the forerunners of the online flooring industry.

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     If you live in the country, or an urban area that gets a lot of dust or mud or rain or snow, then the room or rooms that your family enters first, may need a new floor.  A solid floor may prove invaluable. Linoleum or vinyl tile could be put down in a mud room or a family room entered from the patio.   If entry is through a front door then a tiled entryway will work, which can then lead into your hardwood or other flooring in a living room.  A tiled foyer could also lead to carpeting or rugs.  If there’s a mat that is washable and put down right as people enter your home, then this can hold any dust or moisture.  Check out a few ideas for these critical areas, on floormall.com.

Stone tiles are also a beautiful addition to any room whether it’s subjected to dust and moisture, or not.  They come in many colors and can include slate, granite and even marble (for those mansions!)  Because natural stone tiles are not made in a factory and are cut to size, the measurements do vary quite a bit.  This will be noticeable if you lay them square-on in a checkerboard pattern.  These kinds of tiles need to be laid in a staggered pattern so any slight variances will blend right in, and you won’t see them.  To view a huge variety of stone and other tiles, check out floormall.com.

Sealed hardwood may also be used when there’s concern over “tracking in”.  Real wood is easier to keep clean than you might imagine, as long you don’t let any pools of water sit on it, there shouldn’t be any problems.  To clean hardwood floors all you need is a damp mop that was dipped in warm water and a little vinegar.  No need for that expensive balsamic kind — just the plain sort should work fine.  For cleaning up any of your other floors you can take a peek at floormall.com’s university of info.  There’s no tuition involved, which might be a relief now that the kids are out for the Summer!

Before you renovate or replace a section of your flooring, think about the use it will get and what may be walked in or spilt on it.  If you can tie in usage and purpose and how it looks to your floors, then they will last a lot longer.  If you want to compare colors or properties of stone tile, hardwood floors, ceramic tile, linoleum or any other kind of floor, look at the floormall.com website today.  The better the job at matching your floors to a room’s purpose, the more functional your home will be.

  Perhaps you have a picture in your head of linoleum or vinyl flooring that’s of a long ago kitchen floor in grandma’s kitchen?  It could have been grey or green or even yellow.  You don’t have to replace your floor with something like that.  Vinyl flooring and linoleum (and linoleum is now “greener” than ever) comes in a huge variety of gorgeous colors and thicknesses and designs.  They even have retro designed linoleum and vinyl if you really do like grandma’s style.  Vinyl flooring is enduring and very easy to install.  It usually comes in uniform tiles and they are easy to glue down, or even just rip of the backing and voila, they are down.  Taking a look online is useful for this type of flooring, because it does come in this huge variety.  Imagine trying to compare this flooring in a home store?  It would take hours.  Check out floormall.com and you’ll see how easy it is.

Vinyl flooring can be inexpensive.  There are even patterns that make these tiles look exactly like stone.  The normal size is 12″ x 12″ and the boxes are easy to handle.  If you get them sent to you after purchasing on the Internet, you can just stack them in a corner until you are ready to use them.  Because vinyl flooring can be placed on several surfaces or in several different climates, check out what glue is available.  If you are chemically sensitive then some glues offer low or no VOC varieties.  Prices vary as do amounts in the container.  Don’t buy more than you need as it can deteriorate, but just a little more than you estimate you’ll need.  Make sure that your subfloor is smooth and level before you lay the tiles or you could get buckling later.  Manufacturers’ recommendations for drying time are on the glue container, and adhesive suggestions always come with the tiles themselves.

Vinyl flooring can even be placed in your garage.  It just depends on what will be parked there, or what will be placed on it.  Usually, in a garage, homeowners install vinyl flooring in the workshop area.  Black and white tiles give an area a retro look, as they would in kitchens.  The 1950s is a popular era right know and people who have installed black and white checkerboard vinyl flooring could have colored appliances to go along with it.  Stainless steel is also good and that gives a retro, yet modern look, without being too kitschy. 

All in all, vinyl flooring is a great product because it’s durable, easy to install, and reasonably priced.  If you simply don’t have the time and inclination to do the vinyl flooring installation yourself, then there are a few excellent professionals out there.  Take a look at floormall.com.  Choosing your patterns and colors is fun, but get help if you need it.

Every once in a while you come across a very interesting customer request. Sometimes it’s laying down hardwood for an old prince’s palace or a celebrity that needs high quality cork flooring in their guest house. It is very rare however, to be charged with the task of providing fine tile in the style of a 1920s Pullman rail car. FloorMall is honored to be working with the Southeastern Railway Museum in Duluth Georgia to restore a prized piece of American history for future generations to see.

Here are some facts about President Harding and his Rail Car:

• His locomotive trip to Alaska, dubbed “the great dream of the duchess,” taken just before the end of his term was to be his last. He fell ill on the train and died soon after at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco.

• Some suspect that President Harding may have been killed by bad crab meat that was consumed on the train over several days while in Alaska. Some have even gone as far as to say that his wife poisoned him! Though these claims are apocryphal and have generally been discredited.

• The former President, as a testament to his dexterity and sense of adventure, even conducted the train for a portion of his trip from Wasilla to Willow Alaska with his wife, Florence Harding, in the fireman’s seat.

• President Harding was known to have a number of lady friends, including his paramour, Carrie Phillips. Interestingly, the love letters between the President and his female friends have, by court order, been sealed in the Library of Congress until the year 2014!

 If your floor or floors are in disrepair then Summer fun plans may have to be put on hold.  Starting your renovation or floor repair now will get it done in plenty of time for barbecues and outdoor parties.  Hardwood flooring repairs can be as simple as renting a sander, buffing the old finish and scratches out of your floor, and then resealing.  Your flooring has to have a few years of life left in it for this to happen, though.  You can’t refinish what’s not there.  Floors must be made from solid hardwood and not be engineered, for you to be able to sand them.  Good hardwood flooring can be refinished several times.  Poor quality maybe only once.  If you have a period home then the floors are probably quite thick and you’ll do just fine refinishing them.  Grab some free advice from floormall.com and you can see what you may need to buy for your project.

Perhaps there are a few planks that have become damaged in your hardwood floors.  When hardwood flooring is first installed it’s always a good idea to save some pieces of the wood.  Of course, if your house was built a couple of centuries ago, that’s not going to happen.  If you have had your home built, or put in a hardwood floor recently, then  replacing those few planks is pretty easy.  Basically, you have to pry up the damaged ones, cut the new ones to size and then glue and nail them down.  All old glue and nails or staples have to be removed.  Refinishing with a stain and sealer can be a little tricky because it has to be matched and integrated into the old floor.  Some stores can color match stains and paint, because computers are used, so check that concept out if you don’t have a can of the old stain in your garage or shed. 

If you are going to be installing or have installed, an entire room of hardwood flooring, then the choices are many.   Do you have hardwood floors throughout your home or just in this one room?  If you have other rooms with floors like this and if there’s a room separation (perhaps this room has tiles etc.) then there shouldn’t be any problems.  If this room where you are installing or replacing the hardwood in butts up against another hardwood floor, then you may want to get as close to that one’s color and type of wood as you can.  If you have to match hardwoods with another floor, then look online at floormall.com and you can find hardwood flooring of all types.  You’ll be able to match up your old floors that way. 

Whatever way you go, hardwood flooring is an enduring, warm, durable and extremely attractive flooring choice.  Along with stone and ceramic tiles, it’s been around for a very long time.

Have you gotten tired of those funny sounds that floors sometimes make when you walk on them?  Old floors can get really waxy and gummy and look really, really dingy.  Perhaps it’s time to check out some new types of floors that are becoming popular.  Cork flooring is becoming an excellent choice for flooring.  It’s environmentally friendly (cork oak trees re-grow this inner bark in a few years) so it’s renewable, like giant bamboo is.  Although giant bamboo is cut down, it’s just a grass and it does get big really fast so that’s the feature that makes it very “green”.  Cork flooring usually comes in tile form and these do vary in quality and coloration, so checking out some samples online at floormall.com will steer you in the right direction.

One advantage to cork flooring is that you will not be sticking to it.  Cork can be sealed quite nicely so you won’t worry about the porosity very much.  Cork provides warmth and insulation and a certain “bounciness” to your floors.  It’s a new and quite in vogue flooring product for offices, especially.  There are some sound insulating qualities which make it a great choice for the home office.  Libraries, if you are so fortunate to have one of these book repositories in your home, or a den, also are good candidates for cork flooring.  A lot of homeowners can install cork floors themselves but the product may not be available in all home improvement stores.  You can look online at the various types, availability, and installation tips.  Visiting a good site like floormall.com will get you on the right track.

Cork is used for many other things in homes, and not just for the floors.  There’s every college student’s dream of a giant bulletin board where they can stick schedules and photos from home.  In the home office you can also make a section of cork on the wall in front of a desk.  To make this bulletin area more home-like, wrapping a few diagonals of ribbon so that it crisscrosses a bulletin board enables you to slip in photos and notes without having to use pushpins etc.  In fact, if you have a few cork tiles left over from your cork flooring project, you can make one of these as a unique gift.  Always save a few pieces or sections of any flooring you install, for repairs at a later date.  Store them where you’ll be able to get them out if needed!

If you want some information on any types of flooring products, cork flooring included, or any advice or tips for buying or installation, then take a look at floormall.com.  There’s a ton of info on this site that will help you.

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Well, your floor may not be literally blue (or maybe it is) but if it’s sad, then you might consider replacing it.  Sometimes, flooring such as tile flooring or any hard surface, can get stained or damaged and even if it’s a little corner of the floor, that may detract from your overall nice look which you have worked hard to maintain.  If your tile or other flooring has aged, the color difference between old and new tile can be striking.  You may need to purchase all new tile flooring, and there are many different types to choose from.  If you are looking for a bit of solid info on installing the floor yourself, then check out floormall.com.  They have a university section where you can learn all kinds of things about flooring.

Tiles have been around from ancient times and can be made from a host of different materials.  Today, they are ceramic or porcelain or vinyl or real wood (parquet tiles) or cork or leather or stainless steel, or even exotic woods and other substances.  A tile is a square, usually 12″ x 12″ for floors or sometimes 18″ x 18″ or even 6″ x 6″.  Tiles can also be rectangular.  Octagonal tiles can be used for tile flooring and they fit quite nicely together. Think about how a beehive looks inside and the honeycombs all lined up snugly.  Maybe you’d like a blue floor.  Really. 

Different shades of blue tile flooring can depict a sea theme, or lend a nautical air to a seaside cottage.  Be careful if you do blue tiles in a bathroom.  On the floor and on the walls and in the shower could become overpowering.  All one color and you’d feel claustrophobic.  Too dark a color on the floor would be hard to keep clean.  If you need any advice on what type of tile flooring to get, cruise on over to floormall.com.  They’ll offer plenty of great advice.  The ancient Greeks loved blue tiles.  The ancient Egyptians did as well.  If you have a small room, then laying large tiles diagonally makes it look much bigger. 

For our modern floors there are so many choices for tile flooring, or any other kind of floor.  Installation materials and temperature really do matter as to the end results you get when flooring is installed.  Always make sure your floor is level before performing any kind of tile flooring job.  There are cement-like levelers you can pour to make it even.  Installing a subfloor is also a great idea.  Grout is necessary for tiles after you have got them stuck down and this can be either matching, or a different color.  The grout should match the tiles as if it’s too stark a contrast, the tiles can look weird.  Be sure and place spacers between your tiles or your floor may look like a tornado hit it and wrongly laid tiles can be a real mess to get up.  If you need help installing your tile flooring, check out the pros at floormall.com.

If you are starting from scratch and either building a home yourself or having one built, then a first thought should be about what type of flooring you are going to install.  And, do you really want to do it yourself or call in the pros?  If you are replacing one or two floors inside of your already completed home, then that can be a little bit different as to how you will approach the problem.  There are so many floor types these days that a self-installation can be easy.  It depends on the flooring itself.  New homes are usually a combination of tiles (stone or ceramic) and hardwood flooring.  You may choose an easier to install high-quality laminate or engineered flooring, which comes in snap together planks. 

Also under consideration these days is whether your flooring is environmentally safer than some products used to be.  Bamboo, for instance, is a terrific, easily-renewable flooring product.  It can range from glue down planks to cork-backed (therefore already ready to go straight down), snap together planks.  Bamboo comes in light natural colors, or caramelized varieties that add interest.  There are also several ways that the bamboo strips can be placed and this also adds additional contrast.  Gluing down planks requires good knees if you are doing it yourself.  Planks and a high quality glue help.  If you aren’t very up n all of the products available, then a look at a variety of them, plus info on a few professionals, can be had at floormall.com. 

Tiles are a good choice for the home do it yourselfer.  They come in a vast range of materials and can be super easy (peel and stick vinyl) to large, natural stone tiles that can be quite difficult to install.  The thing with natural stone is that it’s always one of a kind because the stone it comes from (limestone, granite, marble etc.) is varied as to thickness and color.  With a truly natural stone tile you need to place the tiles staggered, like you do with a brick wall.  If they are placed in a grid pattern, then you will get quite off kilter at the end of your room.  There is always a variance in the size of natural stone tiles for your flooring, so be sure and use a high quality glue, grout and get a bit of advice from floormall.com.  Don’t forget the tile spacers!

Finally, hardwood floors are so loved and have been used for centuries.  Back in the day, wide planks were used for flooring and today, hardwood flooring comes in random widths and lengths, sometimes engineered (real wood but in layers) and even reclaimed or refinished wood.  Reusing wood taken from a house in another, or refinishing old barn wood or even wood that’s been in a lake for a century, is the ultimate in recycling.  And, you get a product that’s unique and beautiful.

Nothing could be finer for your American Colonial style home (or any other style home) than new floors done in BR111 American Cherry engineered floor planks.  They are a sturdy 5/16″ thick and 6.25″ wide.  A wider plank was often used back in the day and it gives a home a lived in, period look.  This lighter colored cherry flooring is applied by means of glue or a floating floor installation.  You can look up a few tips from floormall.com to help you put the perfect floors in your home.  The finish is Aluminum Oxide.  At 29.2 square feet per box there won’t be very many boxes to buy.

Another terrific look for any floor is Pecan.  BR-111 has a great solid hardwood in Macchiato Pecan, which is 3-1/8″ wide.  You’ll want a caffeine fix just looking at this macchiato-colored floor.  The tree species is Hickory (Pecan) and the installation method is by using glue, nails or staples.  This high-quality real hardwood can be sanded and buffed and re-stained several times over, to keep it looking new for generations.  The finish is Aluminum Oxide and the length of the planks goes from almost a foot to 88″.  They are 3-1/8″ wide and 5/16″ thick, so there’s plenty of wood there.  It feels really good when you walk on it as well.  The box contains 35.8 square feet so you won’t need too many boxes to finish your floor.  If you have any questions about installation of wood floors, check out floormall.com, where you can browse to your heart’s content.

Tigerwood in solid hardwood is quite luxurious, and not only looks good, but it’s a superior floor product.  These 3″ wide planks from BR-111 will look fantastic on your floors.  The color is warm and inviting.  Installation is by nail, so if you aren’t quite confident enough to use a nail gun, there are pros and lots of advice available on floormall.com.  The width of these planks is 3″, which is a nice size and it looks good, and the finish is Aluminum Oxide.  Thickness is .75″ and there’s twenty-two square feet per box.

If you are looking for a superior quality white oak for your floors, then BR-111’s engineered and prefinished White Oak may suit you to a T.  It’s 3″ wide and that looks fantastic on any floor in your period or contemporary-style home.  The installation on this gorgeous flooring is either floating or by glue.  You can get advice on what type of glue to use from floormall.com.  The finish is Aluminum Oxide.  Length runs from 24 to 48 inches and the thickness is 5/16″.  There’s 33 square feet per box so you won’t need too many boxes to complete your floor in style.

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Shaw Floors Brushed Suede Parchment is a lovely color and it’s done in an engineered hickory real wood.  Installation is by floating (snap it together) or nail or staple gun and/or glue.  If you need any installation tips, floormall.com has a ton of great info on just about anything to do with flooring.  The finish on these planks is ScufResist and the name says it all.  This is a great flooring for a family room or perhaps a breakfast area that leads out to the patio.  Keep your floors looking great throughout many Summers of backyard activity!  The width is a sturdy 4.5″ and it’s .5″ thick and there’s 18.30 square feet per box.

Shaw Floors Brushed Suede Buckskin is a gorgeous color.  As the name suggests, it evokes memories of Westerns and soft leather and cowboy boots.  Of course, it would look great in any style of home.  The planks are made from engineered hickory and they will install via a floating method (click and lock) or with a nail gun, staple gun and/or glue.  If you need any info on installation or about any other flooring topic, check out floormall.com and their “university” section.  You can get a real education there.  The finish on this flooring is ScufResist so it’s wonderful for those high traffic areas of your home, and the width of the planks is 4.5″, with a .5″ thickness and there’s 18.30 square feet per box.

Shaw Floors Brushed Suede Fedora is the most wonderful shade of soft grey.  It does remind you of those old films with detectives, in their fedora hats, taking on the case of a beautiful woman.  The color and style would really suit your home, no matter what era it’s from.  The planks are engineered Hickory and the finish is ScufResist.  You can use this flooring in a which traffic area such as a busy library or perhaps the family or media room.  Installation is by floating method (snap in) or via nail gun, stapler, and/or glue.  The planks are a hefty 4.25″ wide by .5″ thick and there’s 18.30 square feet per box.  Check out floormall.com if you need any help with installation or just have some questions.  Rent an old Humphrey Bogart movie and give an occasional glance to your new Brushed Suede Fedora floors as you sit on the coach, eat popcorn, and watch the movie!

Shaw Floors Brushed Suede Bison is a wonderful color for your new floor.  It’s made from engineered Hickory and the installation is by floating floor (snap it in) or by nail gun, stapler, and/or glue.  The finish is ScufResist so it will take the wear and tear of a family room.  The width is a nice 4.25″ and the thickness is a solid .5″.  These are not flimsy planks.  There’s 18.30 square feet in a box.   Seek out any help you need, or ask any questions you’d like, from floormall.com.

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Mohawk Rivermont Cherry Oak Strip is the most beautiful cherry color you’ll find in flooring.  This one is oak, and applied by means of nails or staples.  The finish is Aluminum Oxide and the planks are 2.25″ wide by .75″ thick.  There’s 18.25 square feet per box.  This would make an absolutely beautiful floor in your period or contemporary home.  If you’re library or den or dining room needs a new floor, then this could be the one.  If you need any advice on installation or finding a professional installer, then take a look at floormall.com.  They will be able to answer any of your questions, especially if you look through their university section.  It’ll be a great, instant education!

Mohawk Maple Ridge Ginger 2 ¼” is a superior flooring plank that’s made from solid maple and applied by means of a nail gun.  If you aren’t experienced at using nail guns then you can seek advice, or round up a professional installer at floormall.com.  The finish on these planks is Aluminum Oxide and the color is just gorgeous.  This type of flooring was used back in Colonial days so if you have a period home, then this would be the flooring to look at.  It’s 2.25″ wide by ¾” thick, so there’s plenty enough would for several rounds of sanding and buffing and re-staining.  This floor will last for generations.  There’s 18.25 square feet in a box and they do have matching accessories which you may purchase, such as baseboards an molding.

Mohawk Pastiche Uniclic Cherry Oak is as its name suggests — one click and it’s installed!   What could be easier?  It’s an engineered real wood product and the finish is Aluminum Oxide.  If you are looking for an easy install, then this one is absolutely worth a look.  If there’s more advice you need or just a few facts, then floormall.com’s university section will be able to answer any of your questions or concerns.  The width of these planks is 3.25″ and the thickness is 3/8″.  There’s plenty in a box at 29.25 square feet per.

Mohawk Hand-Sculpted Santa Barbara Saddle Oak evokes that beautiful small Spanish-themed city of Santa Barbara, right on the Pacific ocean.  This city has a huge range of homes from luxurious mansions to charming craftsman-style cottages and period Victorians.  Merchant seamen used to bring cargo loads of flooring into the harbor of Santa Barbara, and many large homes at the time overlooked the sea.   If you’d like to redo a few floors in your own home, then this engineered hickory flooring may be just the ticket.  You can install it by way of a nail or staple gun, and glue may also be used along with that.  Any advice needed on any kind of flooring topic, may be easily gotten from floormall.com.  The finish on these planks is Aluminum Oxide and they are a hefty (and very period looking ) 5″ wide by .5″ thick and there’s 19.69 square feet per box.  This flooring will last for many generations.

     If you are looking for some exotic flooring but don’t know quite what to go for, or what the prices and availability might be, then check out floormall.com.  They have a wide variety of flooring that will suit just about anyone.  Armstrong has a fantastic (and exotic) Global Exotic Brazilia Tigerwood floor, which is an engineered floor that’s 4-3/4″ wide.  As you may know, Brazilia is the capital of Brazil and this title certainly suits the color and style of these planks.  This flooring is dark and rich looking, and made from striped Tigerwood and it requires glue, staples and nail installation, depending on your subfloor of course.  The finish is Dura-Luster Plus and the width is 4.75″.  Thickness is 3/8″ and there 27.9 square feet per box.  If you have any questions  about flooring installation, be sure and look at floormall.com’s university section, where you’ll find a wealth of info on most any subject to do with flooring. 

On the other hand, if you like a lighter kind of flooring, there’s always Armstrong’s Global Exotic Brazilia Taupe engineered planks, which are also 4.75″ wide so the look is nice and sturdy.  You can compare colors and styles at floormall.com on this, and the other Armstrong floor types.  This taupe color is somewhat lighter than the other Tigerwood species, but it also has a Dura-Luster Plus finish for durability and the installation is the same — glue, nails and staples, depending on your subfloor.  There’s also 27.9 square feet to a box so it’ll cover a nice portion of your floor.

If you are looking for Mahogany, then floormall.com has that too, in the usual high quality of Armstrong.  Their Global Exotic Natural African Mahogany, in the 4.75″ wide engineered planks, is fantastic and would be superior looking in a library or den or period home.  The species of tree is an African Mahogany  and installation is glue, nail and staple, or a combo.  The thickness is hefty at 3/8″ and there’s the Dura-Luster Plus finish to protect your floors and keep them looking great for many years.  At 27.9 square feet in a box, you’ll be able to finish up your floors in no time. 

Armstrong’s Grecian Series American Cherry is deep and rich and warm looking.  The finish is Aluminum Oxide and at 36.62 square feet per box you’ll be able to complete your floors with just a few boxes.  This engineered flooring is installed by means of glue. Nail, staples or just clicked together, because it can be a floating floor as well.  The width is 3-9/16″ and the thickness is 13/32″.  If you need help in installing this lovely flooring, or just have a few questions, then check out floormall.com and their interesting and comprehensive section and the university pages.

Today’s bamboo flooring, for instance, is both attractive, very “green”, and wears well. If you have a pathway in your room, with newly laid down bamboo, it doesn’t hurt to protect against some of the “hard knocks” of life, such as children running inside with their sport shoes on, or large dogs playing, etc. If you have bamboo in a new office, and are using a small-wheeled office chair, for instance, protecting the area behind your desk protects the floor from dent marks if your large uncle Charlie visits and sits in that chair. Even the very sturdy hardwood or tile floors are protected from moisture after Summer pool parties, and some of the smaller area rugs are very easy to both air and dry out, and keep clean. They are also an anti-slip agent for the wet feet of little ones. If you are considering putting down a good quality of wood but are unsure about how to do it, free information can be found at the floormall.com university.

Choosing an area rug is really about two things — do you like it, and does it compliment your flooring and home? As there are so many floor colors, so are there colors of carpeting and rugs. Bamboo flooring, for instance, especially if it’s that lovely darker caramelized color (check out the many variations of bamboo flooring at floormall.com), takes well to a lighter tan carpeting with a nice border. Something in a natural pattern would be great and would suit the theme and airiness of bamboo. If you have a darker hardwood or laminate floor, a richer-toned color for your area rug will suit you. If there’s just a pathway through the room or an area in front of a sofa, for instance, then a carpet runner will be perfect. Many runners are regular area rugs, that is, no more of that indoor/outdoor weave in a solid bright blue or dark green. You can get that still, but it would probably not be for your living room.

All in all, pick out what type and color of flooring you need to install and take a look at floormall.com for inspiration, knowledge and supplies, then after it’s been laid down, grab an area rug or two and your new room or rooms will be finished off perfectly!

Perhaps the simplest type of waterproof flooring is a piece of linoleum.  Today’s linoleum is not your grandparents’ linoleum.  This new green and renewable resourced product comes in many colors and patterns and there is a design for practically anyone.  It’s easy to put down — check out some tips at floormall.com, and you can even cut some designs out of a circle or square or rectangle of it, and then make yourself a waterproof rug.  It’s easy to wipe down after barbecue sauce spills and lemonade and other unknown stains, as well.  Even if you just do that, often you can get a bargain priced piece because it’s a leftover.  The best place to look for designs in linoleum is online, and there you can compare all of the types, advantages, prices and designs.  In a brick and mortar store there is often limited selection, and the designs they do have may not please you.

Another super waterproof (and extremely long-lasting) type of flooring material is tile flooring.  There are the basic peel and stick ones, plus hundreds of other kinds.  Porcelain tiles are precise and easy to clean.  Natural stone tiles are also attractive looking, but a little more difficult to put down as flooring because there are slight size differences and you cannot lay them in a normal checkerboard pattern in case some are off-measurement.  Stagger those like a brick wall, choose the right grout and sealant and you’ll have a super looking floor fairly quickly. You may even purchase porcelain tiles that look exactly like natural stone ones, but are perfect in their measurements because they are made in factories.   To compare properties and prices of various tiles without having to use a lot of gas or shoe leather, take a look at floormall.com and their packed website with many pages of information.

The final class of flooring that may be considered waterproof or water-resistant is ceramic tiles.  A few ceramic tiles such as Saltillos are iffy in  that area, but well and properly sealed they could work.  The “ordinary” type and easily available ceramic tiles, which come in thousands of styles and colors, work extremely well.  If you have a small room get large tiles and put them down diagonally.  This increases the visual space.  Make sure they  are also properly sealed and grouted and you’ll have a super long lasting floor surface that will serve you and your family for a long time.  You can compare prices and get a lot of info from floormall.com.

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Independence Day is coming up in just a few months and you may want to start planning those parties and celebrations.  Besides the usual decorations and food, invitations and such, take a quick look at the floors in your home that may need renewal, refurbishing, or renovation.  Family rooms, certainly kitchens, patios and dens, basements and great rooms — all could be involved in the big July bash.  A site that can help you plan, or just learn about new innovations in flooring, is at floormall.com.  They also, besides the free advice, have a lot of information on ordering flooring materials and getting hold of a professional flooring installer, if you need one of those to help you out.

Because July is a big barbecue month, how does your patio look?  Are the stone or ceramic tiles chipped or cracked or faded?  Natural flagstones and other stone flooring, or even patterned or colored concrete, looks great as the decking for a patio.  It does need some maintenance and often, a few repairs are all that’s needed.  Perhaps the carpeting in your family room is past the point of no return and your kids can see themselves in the shiny linoleum underneath it.  Maybe a good flooring of real hardwood, engineered hardwood or a high quality laminate would serve you well in that area.  At floormall.com they have so many types of wood planks and also bamboo (a great flooring that can be easy to install) that the only choice could be what color and when can I get it installed?

Your kitchen may be in good shape or poor, but there are lots of things you can do to either refresh, or replace it.  If the real wood is scarred or dull, then stripping, buffing and then re-staining would make it look wonderful again.  Perhaps a new piece of the modern and eco-friendly linoleum would be a simple and durable solution?  Have you considered ceramic tiles or even porcelain tiles in there?  If you go to floormall.com and see what they have for your kitchen, then check out the handy info on their floormall.com university.  It’s free, and extremely informative.

Finally, don’t forget the guest bathroom!  It may be a small area, but all of the people at your party will be taking a look at the floor at one time or another.  Natural stone tiles look great in a bathroom and using larger ones, usually 18 inches by 18 inches, and laying them diagonally, will increase the space visually.  Take a quick look at floormall.com and perhaps a manufacturer has a small run of tiles which can be bought a little cheaper.  You won’t need many for a normal-sized bathroom.  Subway (ceramic) tiles can be used, plus even vinyl tiles (some look like real stone tiles).  Vinyl tiles could be a quick and easy fix and along with a vase of fresh floors, and some new towels and a shower curtain, the bathroom will be spa-like and ready for all of your guests. 

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Why walk around on dingy old floors, when it’s almost Spring?  Some flooring installations take a little longer than others.  Many are super easy and others are a bit harder.  If you visit a site like floormall.com you can see what’s involved with each type of flooring installation, and make an informed choice.  The easiest flooring installation would probably be a nice new piece of “green” linoleum.  The next would be peel and stick vinyl tiles.  Don’t think of the old school vinyl tiles.  There are so many new varieties these days that some floors look exactly like natural stone or high quality patterned laminate.  You really can’t tell the difference and would have to get a magnifying glass out to be sure.

The next easiest would be a floating floor, or laminate.  These are snap together planks and only require cutting to fit, then interlocking like a jigsaw puzzle.  Underlayment (foam sheet for cement or paper for wood) is all that’s required, plus a small standing jigsaw.  You don’t need glue or anything else, but kneepads are a wise choice plus a small mallet and an extra piece of wood to tap the planks in place.  I’d say that hardwood planks would be the next type to consider.  Check out the variety and woods at floormall.com and see if this kind of flooring is for you.  Nails are required if your subfloor is wood and glue if it’s cement.  You can rent a nailer or get a professional flooring installer to do the job for you.  Consider lighter wood for those new Spring days or get ready for a cozy Fall and Winter with gorgeous darker woods such as mahogany or walnut.  Hardwood floors can be composed of only a certain type of wood, or engineered wood (top layer of the wood then other woods for the rest).  Engineered woods can be in many different stains and colors and types, such as the antique look. 

Tiling is perhaps a little harder than most other floor installations.  If you study a few details as to what type of materials to use for sticking the tiles to your floor, how to space the tiles and what pattern to use for which type of tile, how to grout when they are dry, what types of tiles wear better than others, etc., then the job will be made much easier.  There’s a storehouse of knowledge on flooring at the floormall.com university online.  See what suits you to DIY or perhaps hire a professional flooring installer.  Look at what’s available in tiles, which would be good for your space, and go from there.

Looking through the online varieties of tiles at floormall.com and seeing what appeals to you, is fun and saves a lot on gas and wear and tear on your shoes.  Patience may be a virtue but if you have to traipse all over town in order to see what’s out there, then it can wear a little thin!  Save your precious free time and do other Spring things, like stopping to smell the roses. 

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No — not unless you want them to look really old, really, really fast.  But, there are special dance floors you may buy, especially if you take a look at floormall.com.  Professionals use them — they are like a very sturdy linoleum.  But, if you only feel the urge occasionally, and can restrain yourself from tapping on your hardwood, thcn perhaps you can utilize an outdoor space with an old piece of linoleum down on it, or the basement.   Even so, Rockette on over to that site right away and see what they have.  Spring is soon upon us and your floors may be all worn out from the regular dancing that your guests enjoyed during the fantastic New Year’s Eve party you threw for them.  Perhaps you’ve sanded and buffed until there’s barely any wood left in your hardwood floors.  Ah, but what about laminate flooring, you may sigh.  No good for tap dancing either.  You’d be bouncing up and down like you were on a trampoline.  They don’t call laminate a floating floor for nothing. 

Hardwood floors can last a very long time, sometimes a hundred years or more.  Careful cleaning and the

occasional sanding and buffing or staining, or both, will keep them fresh for generations.  Clean them with a damp mop dipped in warm water and vinegar If you want the antique look, then recycled hardwood is the answer.  Of course, holding a tap dance party would do the trick in no time at all.  The wood used for hardwood floors can come from most anywhere on the planet.  We have to be a little cautious these days so that the rain forests are not denuded, or a species of tree goes extinct because someone wants a one of a kind floor in their mansion.  There are certainly varieties of exotic woods, such as zebra wood, that will lend an international air to your room, without denuding the planet of the species.  These rarer woods do cost more, but that’s probably to be expected.  Check out a few exotic species of wood flooring at floormall.com.  They have a lot more substance than a “regular” mall with its corn dogs on a stick, or major appliances in electric blue.

One solution for your tap dancing tendencies, if you don’t have  a basement, money for a dance studio, or it rains all the time, is to make yourself a portable section of flooring that you can practice on.  Perhaps a company has a scrap left over from a dance floor installation and you can buy it at half price.  All you need to do is frame up a couple of sheets of plywood, attach the floor, and voila!  You’ll be Ginger Rodgers or Fred Astaire in no time.  Play a CD of Singing In The Rain and perhaps Gene Kelly will be your inspiration.  Just tap on over to floormall.com (virtually of course) and see what they have.  Spring will soon be upon us and it’s time to get those toes a tappin’.

 It could be your innermost desire to get a literally green floor by St. Patrick’s Day (thin green paint or stain over an old hardwood floor, for instance), but by green we mean a new floor that is environmentally friendly and renewable.  These days, getting a wonderful new floor installed or perhaps making it a DIY project, is easier than ever.  Floormall.com has great resources like a university (full of knowledge about flooring), a blog, and an online mall where there are hundreds of flooring options available.  Spring is  the season of renewal.  Why not let it apply to the flooring, or even one room, of your home?

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A hot and very green flooring resource these days is bamboo.  This is a fantastic product in the looks department, and knowing that it is made from an extremely fast growing variety of grass, and produced by farmers on land in China (therefore enabling many people to get jobs), is a real A plus in the flooring material arena.  Floormall.com can show you photos of the planks and installations, in the several colors that bamboo flooring comes in.  The natural light color is super in an urban loft type of room and the caramelized variations offer a warmer and yet somewhat darker option.  There are even types of bamboo planks that have strip variations and these may offer a designer touch, and an exotic one as well.  Bamboo needs a certain type of glue to stick it down on concrete and although it does snap together, there are more complicated installation methods than laminate, with this flooring.  You can do it yourself but it takes elbow grease and flooring pros may be called for.  It depends on what you’d like to do. 

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Any type of recycled flooring is a green option of course.  Barn wood makes superior and antique looking flooring.  If you are so lucky as to be close to or friends with a farmer who has an aged barn that needs removing, then that’s a good source for these beautiful planks.  It all needs planing down, sanding then sealing to a uniform thickness and length.  Some places specialize in this if you don’t have the expertise or time to do it.  Floormall.com can give you more info on recycled lumber and also some places to look for it, and possible installers as well.  Real hardwood flooring is a bit harder to install than laminate, but it lasts a long time and depending on thickness, can be re-sanded and refinished several times.

Perhaps the best thing about shopping online at Floormall.com for your “green” flooring needs is the fact that you are not polluting the environment by driving all over town (or even the next city) to look at samples of flooring in various retail outlets.  You can compare looks and use and prices online.  No gas usage, no wearing out of shoe soles, no stress and no need to buy a disappointing lunch at a food court somewhere.  This mall will only help you, not hurt your wallet or waistline.

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Spring will soon be upon us and often, besides the usual thoughts on Spring, homeowners may be considering a Spring cleaning of their own for one or several floors of their home.  If your knowledge about flooring is, shall we be kind, poor at best, then there’s a solution for that at the floormall.com university.  In the comfort of your own home you can browse through many useful categories.  How do you install a bamboo floor?  Is your budget low and you need to get a few bargains in the flooring area?  Their 5% discount will surely help with that.  What the heck is colored grout, and where do you use it?  Can I lay down some nice floors myself?  What if I need a professional floor installer to do it?  How do I know they will do a good job?  All of these answers and more will be found at Floormall.com and the university they have online.

When I get the hardwood floors installed or do them myself, what if the dog tracks in that sticky Spring mud?  Do I get the mop and soap out and lather detergent all over the hardwood?  No!  Do you want your real woods floors to end up looking like a roller coaster?   Once you get hold of your flooring, you need to find out how to take care of it.  There are so many methods for the various types, that taking a few notes and giving the floormall.com website and their university of knowledge a good looking over, is well worth it.  How do you lay those gorgeous, but teeny colored glass mosaic tiles on your backsplash?  Don’t they take forever to put on behind your counters?  These types of tiles come on a net-backed sheet and they are actually quite easy to  get up there.  You can even pop a few off the backing and replace them with other colors, to give your backsplash a custom look.

For your floors, tiles have to be studied as to their usage and wear, and size and color and direction of placement.  What about natural stone tiles, or ceramic, or unglazed, or carpet tiles?  Some of us may have been unaware of the latter.  These are exceptionally useful kinds of floor coverings for a family room.  Spill some finger paint or coffee on one?  Whip it up and replace it in ten seconds.  No problemo.  Your money is hard earned these days.  Check out some fantastic tips and bargains and varieties of flooring at floormall.com.  They won’t charge you to look and browse to your heart’s content..

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Adhesive in a large can is heavy but you will need the whole can for even a small room.  The amount of coverage is stated on every can so measure your room and buy one or two cans.  This adhesive is expensive but works well.  You’ll need a quarter inch indented square edge trowel to put down the adhesive and the correct cans to buy will state “Urethane adhesive for wood flooring” and be suitable for solid wood flooring and bamboo.   Check out all of the supplies you may need at floormall.com.  Lay out, measure and cut about 8 rows of flooring and fit it together like a jigsaw puzzle.  After you are satisfied, restack the planks and put aside.  Using the piece of board, scoop out an amount of adhesive and twist it around.  It has the consistency of peanut butter.  Glop it onto the floor and then trowel along about two widths of planks.  Put the lid back on your can and lay down the planks.  They will fit into each other and some pressure is needed to ensure there are no gaps.  This is sweaty work so if you don’t feel up to it you can get a professional flooring installer and the planks themselves from a site such as Floormall.com.

      Caramelized planks look great in a room and they have a warm honey tone.  The lighter natural planks are great for an urban loft or contemporary, light filled room.  Planks are prefinished so no sealants are necessary.  You may want to buy a small can or cleaner in case you get any glue on the surface of the planks.  When done, they can be cleaned with a damp (not wet) mop.   Do not put glue down for more than two rows of planks, if doing a smaller room.  If the room is quite large, one row at a time should work.  The glue starts to dry pretty quickly so do not get involved in any lengthy phone calls etc. while you are doing this part.  The glue as laid down with the correct trowel has a slightly springy feel to it when it dries and this makes the planks adhere to the cement perfectly.

     You may need a step-up door threshold  because bamboo planks are thicker than linoleum, say, but that small part is available in most hardware stores.  Put your baseboards back down, plus any door surrounds you had removed, and you will be all set.  The floor should dry for 8 hours before walking on it and 24 hours before putting furniture back in.  It’s also wise to lay down about 8 rows of planks at a time and let them dry.  This provides a firm base so that you can tap in subsequent layers.  Instructions for all types of flooring, and supplies, are available at Floormall.com.

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Valentines Day and Flooring

Don’t know what to get your sweetie for Valentine’s Day?  What about a wonderful new floor in the bedroom or family room?  There are so many superior products out there today that choosing one that suits you, wears well for your lifestyle, and appeals to your esthetics will be easy.  Using a great website like floormall.com enables you to compare styles, products, brands, suitability, colors, and get info on the different flooring choices, plus decide upon many other factors.

Hardwood Flooring on Valentines Day

Real hardwood comes in so many varieties and widths and thicknesses and its durability is legendary.  Many houses, hundreds of years old, still retain their original hardwood floors.  If the hardwood is fairly thick, then these floors can be sanded and rebuffed and stained and repaired several times over.  Engineered wood is a layer of real wood over several base products.  Engineered wood can be made to look antique or weathered, because it is a top layer of real wood, like any solid hardwood out there.  Real hardwood as long as it’s not taken from rain forests or other protected areas, is a renewable and green resource, and especially if it’s recycled hardwood.  Recycled can come from barn wood, other houses or even ancient timber that was logged a hundred years ago and has until recently, lain on the bottom of a river or lake.  Because some of the trees that had been cut down back then were extremely old, these logs are exceptional in their beauty but can cost quite a bit more.  Engineered wood styles can be studied at a site such as floormall.com, and there you may also compare prices, availability and pros to install the flooring for you. 

Other choices for new flooring for your sweetie could be bamboo flooring, now available with lower VOC resins and in the standard lighter color, caramelized, and many strip variations; a gorgeous wall to wall room of carpeting or a great ethnic area rug or even carpet squares in a retro design; real stone or ceramic tiles (and these come in a huge variety of sizes and colors and durability); laminate flooring that looks like stone or wood; and other flooring in numerous materials and with a wide range of cost and other factors.   And, if you’ve ever looked through a pile of rugs at a big box store, you know how difficult that can be.  Checking out all of the styles on a great website like flooringmall.com is so much easier.

Tile Flooring on Valentines Day

If you have just started to think about flooring for your Valentine, or even if you’ve made a few preliminary decisions, floormall.com can help you from start to finish and also enable you to get the job done quickly and in time for that special candlelight dinner.  Think about the flickering light reflected back from your new dark hardwood floors.  There is almost nothing more romantic than a lovely dinner with your sweetheart.  Don’t forget the deep red roses. 

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Buying flooring during the recession

Are your floors looking worse for wear after all of those holiday parties?  The economy is still tight and money for a few needed home renovations even tighter, but some of your floors have to be repaired, you are thinking to yourself, before you invite any more guests over.  Possibly, a few left your last party early, because they felt that the floor in the kitchen looked like something from a B grade horror movie.  That might be okay for Halloween, but not for Aunt Lydia’s Sunday tea party.   Check out the FloorMall.com’s site and see what they have.  You can compare side by side, look at different materials and colors from different manufacturers, check stock and get some recommendations for every room in your home.  After all, a house is not a home unless people can walk safely around in it, without recoiling in horror at the pitted and chipped tiles in your family room or kitchen.

Speaking of family rooms, they are usually the most used room in your home, other than the kitchen.  Floormall.com has some great deals going for the first of the year and you can even find a professional to install whatever flooring you choose if you don’t like the thought of doing it yourself.  The additional holiday food, although delicious, makes it even harder to bend over and install new flooring.  New Year’s resolutions may include starting on a couple of home projects, such as new flooring.  Why not also do your part by going green in 2010?  Cement floors, linoleum, real hardwoods and even bamboo all make great flooring for a family room, and they are durable as well.  Measure out your room and determine your budget.  Even if it’s hard to round up a few dollars for some new flooring. they may have exactly what you are looking for over at FloorMall.com.

Using Credit for your flooring purchase

Most retail home improvement stores have cut back on their stock for the holidays, so that inventory was reduced.  While that may be a great idea for them, it certainly can’t help the homeowner, looking to have more than a few square feet of new flooring installed.  There is no better way to compare prices, see what’s in stock, and what different flooring products look like, than searching and then browsing the virtual catalogs such as they have at sites like floormall.com.   A couple of the new and innovative products available to the homeowner may surprise you.  Linoleum is very green these days and the giant grass known as bamboo is so very renewable, as well as being attractive.

Check out your budget and you may be surprised how little it takes to renew the floors in one room of your house.  Looking at the FloorMall.com site will give you some great ideas and it could even be inspiring.  Starting on your list of home improvements, especially if it’s flooring, will give you a great deal of satisfaction.  Flooring done, you may then move on to possibly painting, window coverings replacement, and other accessories renewal.  After one room is done, consider doing another one, and of course, start with new flooring from FloorMall.com.

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LOS ANGELES, Calif. — Brittany Murphy died on Sunday morning, a spokesperson for the Los Angeles County Coroner’s Office has confirmed to Access Hollywood. She was 32. 

According to the Coroner’s Office, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Hollywood reported to them that an individual named Brittany Murphy died in the hospital on Sunday.

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A Cedars-Sinai spokesperson also confirmed to Access that the star was pronounced dead at their facility at 10:04 AM.

A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman told Access that they responded to a 911 call made from the 1800 block of N. Rising Glen Road — the same street where the actress lives — at 8 AM on Sunday.

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A rep for the actress also confirmed the news, telling Access Hollywood, “In this time of sadness, the family thanks you for your love and support. It is their wish that you respect their privacy.”

Just weeks ago, a smiling Brittany spoke with Access at the Tt Collection Pop-Up Party in LA on December 3, where she discussed her hopes for the coming year.

“As far as having a New Year’s resolution, I’d love to have a child next year,” she said at the time. “But that’s kind of a large one!”

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The actress also spoke of her love for her family, whom she said she was very close to.

“I’ve been very blessed to have a really great loving husband,” she said. “I spend more time with my family than anyone else in the world”

Brittany rose to fame after a memorable role in 1995’s “Clueless.” She went on to star in such films as “8 Mile,” “Just Married,” “Girl, Interrupted,” “Sin City” and “Riding In Cars With Boys,” among others.

She also made a splash in the music world with the track “Faster Kill Pussycat,” with Paul Oakenfold in 2006 – the track topped the Billboard Hot Dance Club Play Chart that year. She also sang a pair of songs for the animated film “Happy Feet,” in which she was also a voice actress.

Brittany was married to screenwriter Simon Monjack, whom she wed in May 2007.

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Floormall.com Online covers the basics of buying your flooring online. If you’re looking for the absolute best prices on your next flooring purchases, Floormall.com has an entire section dedicated to how you can go about finding the cheapest flooring for you. In addition to that, they offer helpful hints and tips on how to install your flooring purchase yourself, in your own home, using your own tools on your own time.

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Their home page offers a great blog that offers articles for anyone looking for information on flooring and its many aspects. They delve into the details of hand scraping Hardwood Flooring, buying Recycled Hardwoods, how online shopping tops shopping at the store, why buying online is such a great idea, and, of course, choosing the right floor for what you’re looking for. So no matter what it is that you’re looking to find when it comes to shopping for flooring, Floormall.com has you covered.

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Today we are featuring products by Mohawk Industries.
Mohawk Industries says, For over 120 years Mohawk has been a trusted name in carpets. Today Mohawk is the leading producer and distributor of flooring worldwide. All major flooring categories, carpet, rugs, hardwood, laminate, ceramic tile, and vinyl flooring can be purchased at an authorized Mohawk dealer for residential or commercial application. The company operates under four divisions with its own products, features, and brand names.

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Today we are featuring LM Flooring. This company is fairly young, being founded in 2001.

LM says their passion for quality and design is reflected in our more than 150 styles of wood flooring, all carefully crafted by veteran artisans. With advanced technologies, we achieve the highest precision in wood milling and fine Italian finishing.

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