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  • Australian Wormy Chestnut locking hardwood floors from Armstrong are 100 percent real wood. Locking Hardwood from Armstrong Hardwood Flooring
  • ebuild (10/16/2006)
  • Locking Hardwood from Armstrong Hardwood Flooring includes 32 different designs, all featuring the Armstrong exclusive NextGen patent-pending technology, which eliminates the need for glue, staples or nails and reduces installation time. Consumers can live on their new floor immediately - or remove it and replace it later if they choose.
  • Red Label Flooring Collection
  • BUILDING PRODUCTS Magazine (9/14/2006)
  • The Red Label flooring collection offers two Japanese wood designs: the red-orange-hued Dragon Cherry and brown-hued Cherry Blossom, each available in a 5-inch plank format. Complementing Asian design trends, both high-pressure laminates balance white or wood-focused living areas. The floors are resistant to scratches and denting, the maker claims. 800-435-9109.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • 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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