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Flooring Favorites from Boen

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The Boen Floor Studio offers floors that feel modern and natural.  Grouped by shade, from lights to deep dark stains, Boen hardwood floors come in a wide range of colors, patterns, and sizes.  We had so many favorites we decided to just share what we love about each of the collections.

The Nordic Light Collection focuses on light floors that recall summer days.  Paired with strong, fresh colors or blues and whites favored by Scandinavian design, these floors can feel modern or traditional. We love the birch floors with their natural, dark flecks.

The Natural Feeling Collection features warm, golden toned floors. A golden toned floor works well with natural colors, earth tones, stone, leather and natural linens for a relaxed, inviting space. The Doussie wood floors, from Africa, are a light brown mixed with a pale straw color with well defined pattern from the heartwood.

Beautiful Shade Collection offers dark wood floors which are a hot trend in design. Boen offers a range of warm tones to ebonies to fit traditional to very contemporary designs. The Smoked Oak is one of our favorites. It is created by exposing oak timber to ammonia vapor, which turns it black throughout the wood.

My Dreams Collection has four groups: Stonewashed, Patterned Floors, Boen Chalet and Solid Oak Plank. We love the reclaimed wood feeling of the Stonewashed floors.

Maritime World Collection was inspired by the Scandinavian boat building tradition which gives these floors a distinct maritime feeling. You can even opt to have the wood pegs at every joint. Love this look!

Shaw Floors Chosen by House Beautiful: Kitchen of the Year

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Shaw Floors has been chosen by House Beautiful magazine for its fourth annual “Kitchen of the Year.”

As the flooring sponsor, the kitchen will feature Shaw’s Grand Canyon, a hardwood style made from 100% post-industrial wood byproducts.

The design reflects Tyler Florence’s vision of the kitchen as “the new American living room,” incorporating his concepts of family, cooking, entertaining, comfort, design and heritage.

This year’s Kitchen of the Year will be held in conjunction with “Tastes of Summer,” an outdoor food festival that features samples from Rockefeller Center’s most popular restaurants.

Thanks for FloorDaily.net for supplying this article!

About House Beautiful

House Beautiful (www.housebeautiful.com) is a leading authority on American home design and decoration, reaching more than seven million readers every month. Founded in 1896, House Beautiful is the oldest continuously published shelter magazine in the United States. Readers can also interact with the brand on the digital front, with House Beautiful mobile (m.housebeautiful.com). In addition to its U.S. flagship, House Beautiful publishes two editions around the world. Hearst Magazines is a unit of Hearst Corporation (www.hearst.com), one of the nation’s largest diversified communications companies with interests in magazines, newspapers, digital media, business media and television.

About Shaw

Shaw Industries Group, Inc., a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., is the world’s largest carpet manufacturer and a leading floor covering provider with more than $5 billion in annual sales and approximately 31,000 associates. Headquartered in Dalton, Ga., the company manufactures and distributes carpeting, rugs, hardwood, laminate and ceramic tile for residential and commercial applications worldwide. A recognized leader in environmental stewardship, Shaw has implemented hundreds of sustainability initiatives and cradle to cradle design solutions, collectively termed the Shaw Green Edge. For more information, visit www.shawfloors.com.

Terra Verde: The New Green Flooring

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Today many of us are turning to “green alternatives” to help save the environment as we become more aware of our planet’s plight. The interior design industry has answered the call for products that are earth friendly with many product manufacturers doing their part in saving our environment.

If you are a homeowner and thinking of renovating your home, using “green” flooring alternatives would be a good start in contributing to save the environment. Hardwood flooring is a common way to go green. Hardwood flooring is not only elegant and beautiful, but especially durable, standing the test of time.

More and more manufacturers are producing eco friendly hardwood floorings to attract their environment conscious customers and one of them is Terra Verde. Terra Verde is an online pioneer in green and eco-friendly flooring goods. Their name translates to “Green Earth” and with good reason. Their collection has a wide range of planet healthy options from domestically engineered hardwood, exotic hardwood flooring, solid exotic flooring and many more. Hardwood floors are commonly made from red oak, white oak, and cherry oak which give hardwood floors its elegant look.

Terra Verde carries all of the classic wood choices as well as newer sustainable materials such as cork, bamboo and lyptus. These three choices are quickly replenished providing an unending supply of materials from which beautiful floors can be made.

We only have one planet to live in and building green helps us do our share in saving planet earth. So if you are a homeowner who is thinking of renovating, doing your part and using environment-friendly flooring like Terra Verde is a great start.

Company Turns Whiskey Barrels Into Flooring

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News_631At From the Floors Up, we LOVE to hear about great floor sightings – but we also LOVE to hear about inventive and creatively recycled floors. This news, reaches the top of our favorites list.

Did you know? A whisky cask, once it has reached the end of its natural life, normally ends up adorning a garden lawn or, worse, at the foot of a landfill.

Now however there is a new more worthy final destination for the humble cask once it has matured its last drop of whisky thanks to the efforts of a Glasgow-based flooring firm.

McKay flooring have engineered a method that enables the oak planks of barrels to be straightened out so that they be used as sheet flooring.

The flooring, according to  its makers, retains a mild aroma of vanilla with many of the barrels still displaying distillery markings.

The company has received orders from orders from the bar and restaurant trade with interest also coming from whisky enthusiasts from around the world.

For more information visit www.mckayflooring.co.uk. This news originated from TalkFloor.com

Wilsonart Laminates Get Another Greenguard OK

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wilsonart[1]Congrats to Wilsonart Flooring high pressure laminate products  for having been awarded Greenguard Children & Schools Certification.

The second-generation label follows the Greenguard Indoor Air Quality Certification already received by Wilsonart.

Products receiving the latest certification include Estate Plus, Red Label, Professional Studio, Contract and
BlueFusion Flooring Seam Adhesive.

Wilsonart products are also California Air Resources Board Phase I Compliant (Classic) and California 93120 NAF Compliant (Estate Plus, Red Label, Professional Studio, Contract).

Wilsonart also said it is the first North American laminate flooring manufacturer to receive Forest Stewardship Council Certification Registration.

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