For warmth and charm, Hardwood floors is the choice that never goes out of style and can add tremendous value to your home. Today, many designers recommend hardwood floors as the main base-layer and then highlight a rug to blend with the room’s overall interior color scheme.

   The manufacturing of prefinished hardwood flooring has dramatically improved the finish, durability and ease of maintenance of hardwood flooring. You can all but forget about paste waxing your hardwood floors! With the much welcomed engineered wood floors you can use hardwood floors in many different areas in the home that 3/4″ solid wood floors are not recommended for. Also, engineered wood floors waste less of the tree during production.

   See engineered wood floors for more information. Most engineered wood floors can now be floated over a variety of sub-floors and without having to staple, nail or glue-down the planks to the sub-floor.

   At Dick’s Carpet we’ve actually heard customers tell us, “How amazing it is to see so many new colorations, wood species, widths are available to homeowner.”

   Besides the common North American hardwoods (such as oak, maple, hickory and ash), many wood flooring manufacturers now offer exotic hardwood species from all around the World. If you are looking for ways to really express your own personal interior decorating tastes with a more unique looking wood floor you need to go see the exotic wood floors offered by many of the hardwood flooring brands.

   An extremely popular trend in wood floors today is the handscraped hardwood floors offered by many of the wood flooring companies.. If you desire a more rustic-looking wood floor with lots of character than be sure to see the samples of handscraped hardwood floors before you buy.

   In the hardwood flooring section you can pick up tips on the different types of hardwood flooring and where each one can be used. Also, be sure to click to your Carpet One Website about floating floors for more details