Flooring

Environmental design with Naturgress

Two new floor collections for indoors and outdoors that meet the needs of building biology. Design that safeguards the environment. This spring, Iris Ceramica presented two new collections of rustic surfaces inspired by Tuscan terracotta and a refined range of stone: Le corti senesi and Dolomiti. Two collections of glazed porcelain tiles that stand out for the naturalness of their shades and variety of formats and make equal use of the colour and composition of these ceramic products. Rather than being a mere backgroun ...
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Real Wood Floors are Low Maintenance Flooring

Real Wood Floors: The Low Maintenance Flooring Option In your grandmother's day, caring for a wood floor was a real chore.  Today, however, hardwood floors offer busy families a low-maintenance, yet durable and beautiful, flooring alternative. The National Wood Flooring Association states that wood floors will last a lifetime when properly maintained. "Today's wood floors are easy to take care of," says Ed Korczak, executive director, NWFA.  "In the past few d ...
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Decorative Concrete Used as Flooring

Decorative concrete used as flooring The techniques used today with Decorative Concrete offer architects, interior designers and landscape architects an infinite variety of design, color and texture. The use of this material indoors in countertops and sinks, and outdoors in barbeque areas, water features and conversation pits is already well documented. Flooring however is just as striking in this medium. When one says 'concrete floors' it immediately conjures up a mental image picture of a gray, oil stained workshop floor or a c ...
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Water-Based Lacquer for Wood Launced

Water-Based Polyurethane Lacquer for Wood Flooring Launced Blanchon of France has launched S.D. AQUA, a 100% water-based polyurethane lacquer for wood flooring. The first European professional lacquer to be Eco-label certified, and to hold an Environmental Data Sheet, S.D. AQUA meets very strict quality and environmental criteria. S.D. AQUA has been specially designed to achieve an excellent result as regards both covering capacity and resistance, with only two coats needed on bare wood – no primer required. Bl ...
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Wood Floors are Growing in Appeal

Homeowners are pining for wood flooring GARY DYMSKI Newsday When it comes to floors, nothing's as good as wood. Just ask Lynn Luttenberger, who last year covered 1,100 square feet of her West Islip, N.Y., Colonial with red oak flooring. After 20 years in the same home, Luttenberger was adding on a great room and a master bedroom. For her floors, she wanted a combination of elegance and durability. "I just had to have wood," Luttenberger says. "It really is an eye ...
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