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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.
  • What's New: Outdoor Products
  • CUSTOM HOME Magazine (11/2/2006)
  • Custom Home staff selects some of the best products to take outdoors. Unglazed ceramic tiles in the Down to Earth collection come in three styles of brick pavers: velour-textured 4-by-8-inch, slate-textured 4-by-12-inch, and stone-textured 6-by-9-inch. Four colors are available.The 6-foot-6-inch-tall Catalina Cooking Island combines a wood-fired pizza oven and a Brazilian-style barbecue into one modular unit that can be finished with a variety of materials, such as brick, tile, or stucco.
  • 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.

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