Given our druthers we prefer a wood floor over carpet, linoleum or painted floors. But whether you go dark or light, wood flooring tends to come in a range of wood, i.e. brown tones, and the exciteme...
Lars Contzen's hard surface, high gloss floor-panels are wall graphics taken down to the ground level. We first saw his blueprint lined Linear Landscape klick panels and thought we had died and gone t...
Fans of vintage furniture can surely relate to loving vintage lumber and building supplies, too. With the gorgeous aged textures, one-of-a-kind patterns and interesting history, reclaimed building su...
As much as we love our pets, sometimes they can wreak havoc on our floors. From gouges and scratches to the inevitable “mess”, the floors of a home filled with cats, dogs and other 4 legged frien...
Looking for new flooring can be overwhelming with all the different options available today. Many homeowners are looking for flooring that's not only good-looking, but will last. More and more freque...
In the same way that refinishing floors or laying new carpet can suddenly brighten up a home, installing a wooden deck, whether on a balcony or jutting out into the backyard can, literally, create an ...
Lucette writes in: "We just installed dark brown cork flooring in our very modern house, in the kitchen and in the laundry room. We also covered a few stairs and a low wall with it. I was wondering...
One of our favourite finds when perusing the selection at nearby Mercado this past weekend were these Seletti roll-out wooden rugs, printed to look like animal skins or aged Persian rugs.......
What: Red & White basketweave ceramic tile Where: Mercado, Silver Lake, LA Why: Most stores decorate the dressing room as an after thought (if at all). But at design and decor store, Mercado, their ta...
What: Blue & White ceramic tile (Moroccan style?) Where: Intelligentsia Coffee, Silverlake, LA Why: This has got to be one of the most stunning uses of tile we've ever seen. It totally transforms ...
Concrete floors are a popular choice for today's modern homes. A company called Transparent Art (AT:SF mentioned their conceptual lamp before) has come up with a concept that "allows for application o...
One of our pals just put in a new bamboo floor, and it's been less than 24 hours and he's already found scratches in it. Usually, our advice is, "Don't worry about it! It'll give your home character!...
Our friends are just starting on a bathroom renovation project, and one of the worries they've voiced is about grouting tile. Sometimes it helps to see a video rather than just read or look at step-by...
A while back we asked for your help in choosing a laminate flooring and are super happy with the results....
A friend recently inquired about finding sources for reclaimed and sustainable woods. They weren't looking for lumber for their flooring in this case, but for an art project. But it did get us started...
Revisiting this ever-popular post about Home Depot's Trafficmaster Allure vinyl flooring, we noticed a Home Depot employee left extensive additional comments and details about the product, so we thoug...
This Old House has an informative step-by-step instructional for laying cork floor, a flooring material that is much easier for the everyday person to install than wood flooring. Cork also has a lis...
We thought we needed to revisit one of the most popular posts in our AT:LA archives. Earlier this year we reported about the Home Depot's exclusive TrafficMaster Allure flexible vinyl plank flooring....
It's inevitable if you have wood floors, you will get a scratch at some point or another. We saw this tip for repairing wood floor [and furniture] scratches over on Domino Magazine's Scrappy Girl sit...
Our bathroom and kitchen vinyl floors look like Edward James Olmos' face on a dirty day We've considered painting over the worn, perpetually stained looking floor with floor paint, in the hopes of dis...
Nobody likes to be called dull. So bring back your dull vinyl flooring to its former glory with a trip down to your local janitorial supply store and a little elbow grease. Youll first need to clea...
We have been talking up the benefits of bamboo flooring for a while now. We were so into the fact that the easily grown wood (grass, actually) not only helped in stopping the depletion of forests, et ...
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