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Posts tagged “hard flooring”

LA Good Question: Protecting Cork Flooring?

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...

Seletti The Carpet² Squared

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.......

TileVault: Red & White Ceramic Tile

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...

TileVault: Blue & White Ceramic Tile

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 Art by Transparent House

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...

How to...Repair Bamboo Floors

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!...

How To: Grout Tile

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...

Update on Ikea Balk

A while back we asked for your help in choosing a laminate flooring and are super happy with the results....

Eco-Friendly Flooring

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...

TrafficMaster Allure Vinyl Flooring

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...

Laying Cork Flooring

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...

Update: TrafficMaster Allure Vinyl Flooring

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....

Wood floor scratch repair

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...

MiYO Vinyl Floor tiles

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...

How to: Rejuvenate Dull Vinyl Tiles

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...

Bamboo: Is It Really As Eco As We Think?

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 ...