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- ebuild Guide to Wood Flooring Specifications
- ebuild (11/8/2006)
- The number of wood products now available for finish flooring has grown dramatically in the last 20 years or so. Earlier, the primary choice was unfinished solid oak flooring. This floor is still very common, but is now just one of a great many domestic and imported wood species.
- Universal Principles
- REMODELING Magazine (11/1/2006)
- Interior Products Review: Flooring
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (3/30/2006)
- The solid hardwood floor in interior designer Corine Gulli's kitchen looks as if her kids and dogs have worn it out. The truth is, it's brand new. "I've got two words for what's really hot right now in hardwoods: dark and distressed," says Gulli, a designer at Interior Specialist, a Carlsbad, Calif., firm whose 57 home builder clients include Pulte Homes, Barrett Homes, and Pacer Communities. Wide planks stained in shades of chocolate or ebony and hand-scraped into affected antiquity are underfoot in homes from California, where floor trends typically begin, to New York.
- Flooring
- CUSTOM HOME Magazine (1/1/2006)
- Spotlight: Flooring Products
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (11/21/2005)
- Interior Products Review: Engineered Wood Flooring
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (9/1/2005)
- 's been a long time coming. Engineered floors have been around since World War II, when, according to industry veterans, they were used in boat construction. The post-war housing boom made it a choice for homes without basements, as builders can glue engineered wood floors directly to concrete—an installation that doesn't work with thirstier solid-wood boards.
- Interior Products Review: Period-Style Products
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (7/1/2005)
- Time-worn brick, intricate moldings, decorative art glass, and knotty pine flooring reminiscent of simpler times can help homeowners escape the pressures of the 21st century. Whether they install just a few well-placed stained glass lighting fixtures that speak of Frank Lloyd Wright or elaborate molding and millwork to create a gingerbread-house effect, builders and remodelers are realizing that profits abound in the designs of days gone by.
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Top 100: Engineered Hardwood Flooring
- BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (5/1/2005)
- Bellagio wide-plank engineered hardwood flooring is avail- able in 23 species including Brazilian cherry, merbau, walnut, mahogany, maple, ash, teak, American cherry, beech, white and red oak, larch, and bamboo. The collection comes in 86-inch-long panels that are 9/16 inch thick and 5 inches wide. The flooring can be glued or nailed to the subfloor or floated over a foam underlayment.
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