What’s hot in flooring for 2008? Elegant appeal to almost any room. Check out the Hardwood page.

If you are like most people you probably love the look and charm of a real hardwood floor. For centuries people have used wood floors throughout their homes to add warmth and charm. Hardwood floors never seem to go out of fashion and can add real value to your home. Today, many designers recommend wood floors as the main base-layer and then suggest a rug to enhance the room’s overall interior color scheme.

Hardwood flooring manufacturers have dramatically improved the finish, durability and ease of maintenance of prefinished hardwood floors. No more paste waxing your hardwood floor! With the introduction of 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. Many 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.

It is truly amazing today how many new colorations, wood species, and widths are available to homeowners. 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.

In the hardwood flooring section you can learn all about the different types of wood floors and where they can be used. When you visit Dick’s Carpet you will probably hear about floating a wood floor.

Check out the Hardwood page