Natural stone flooring and tile can give a home a look like on other product. Natural stone is one of your high grade products for a home. In the right home the return on investment is always normally very good. Not only is natural stone a excellent investment for you home but it is a timeless look that can last the test of time.

Being that the natural stone is a higher grade and will cost more than your standard porcelain tiles, you must consider your total investment in comparison to the value of the comps that compare to your home. Sometime in a home that may be in the starting range of housing, we suggest to put the natural stone in smaller areas like bathrooms, back splash areas, fireplace surrounds, and so on. This will give a wow factor to the home without over investing in the property.

There a many beautiful natural stones to choose from, depending the look you want to obtain. Here in Wilmington, N.C. at the coast we tend to see lots of travertine and more rustic cottage looking tiles. We also have many people that choose the more elegant looks like a marble tile, granite tile, and some of the polished tiles that give a more formal look.

As we always say you must find what fits your lifestyle and look that suits you best. There are always things you might want to weight out. Although the beautiful polished marbles, and granites tiles look very rich, they may not be practical for some people due to how slippery they can be. You also should consider the uses of the area in which you want to put your natural stone tiles. A extremely rustic tumble stone may not be the best choice for a shower wall area due to its porous natural.

There are several rustic stone choices that would work for a shower area, but you would need to use a good water proof product behind the natural stone. As well with most natural stone floors it is a good idea to seal them with a good natural stone floor sealer. When you are ready to upgrade you home with a beautiful natural stone tile, come see why we are Wilmington, N.C. and surrounding areas top choice for these product.

Matching hardwood flooring is not always a easy task. Many people do not understand the difficulties of matching up hardwood floors to your existing hardwoods. There is a lot to consider. How old is you existing hardwood flooring? Do you plan to refinish your existing hardwood flooring? Does the area you want new hardwood floors connect to the existing hardwood floors? How much hardwood floor area does your existing floor count for? If doing a patch or small repair, is there attic stock of the original flooring or is there a closet area you can take up and use?

Some might think you can add some unfinished hardwood floors to your existing hardwood floors, then refinish them and they will automatically match up. Hardwood that is grown in one area of the world will not necessary match up to another hardwood grown elsewhere. Sometimes you get lucky and get a satisfactory match. There are many different circumstances we come across when matching existing hardwood flooring. There are many interior design tricks that will help you get a satisfactory solution. Here are some different thoughts from designer when matching up to existing hardwood floors.

It is better to not try to match the existing hardwood than to try and miss.

Sometimes if you can break your eye with a transition or threshold in the doorway it help if the match is not perfect.

When adding a different room of hardwood to the existing hardwood it can look stunning with a extremely different color hardwood flooring. Sometimes it looks custom done when you add a boarder that matches your existing hardwood floor inside the contrasting different hardwood flooring.

If matching in the middle of a big room, you must finger joint with a unfinished hardwood and pretest stains prior to installation.

Sometimes if there is not a lot of existing hardwood flooring it is just best to take up the old flooring and start from scratch. Sometimes this way will pay you the most return when you sell the home.

You can consider turn the direction the wood flooring is running to give yourself a different look.

Many people do not consider how much of the hardwood flooring will be covered up by furniture and area rugs.

There is much to think about when you want to try to match up to some existing hardwood, so take your time. Remember whenever you put in some new flooring make sure you save some to put in the attic encase you may need it later. If you have put in some hardwood recently that does not match up perfectly, remember over time most wood tone will deepen and may match better over a good length of time. If you a considering to match some hardwood floors, we suggest you really take your time and weight all your options. There is many things that could cause you some dissatisfaction if you are not careful.

What type is best for you? The older system of sanding and finishing the hardwood flooring on site using a raw unfinished hardwood floor or the continue improved pre-finished hardwood flooring. Each method has its advantages and disadvantages. One advantage for a site finished hardwood is that the unfinished sanded hardwood get a coating over the whole floor on site to give you a look of a smooth finish look. (like at sheet of glass) There are only a few pre-finished hardwood floors that match this look you get with a site finished hardwood floor.

Also you get more choices in the colors of stains when using the unfinished hardwood floors. The pre-finished hardwood floors have grown over the last few decades. More and more people are choosing the pre-finished hardwood floors over the unfinished hardwood floors. Some of the best advances in the prefinished hardwood flooring is in the advancements of the finish that is applied in the factories. The pre-finished hardwood industry has added aluminum oxide to the finishes. This element is the fifth hardest element known to man. It is proven that the aluminum oxide finishes will help the hardwood finish to last for more than twice as long as the regular urethane finishes. Also they are putting on uv protection to help with direct sun light exposure.

Many people are choosing the prefinished hardwood floors over the unfinished hardwood floor due to the ease and quick means of getting the job done. The prefinished hardwood floors can be put in and lived on right away. The unfinished hardwood flooring can take weeks to get done and is often a messy process. Although there are now dustless systems to use on the site finished hardwood, the site sanded and finished leaves more dust and a strong urethane smell behind. The site finished hardwood can also put a stop to all the other trades while the process is getting done, which will ultimately slow your project down. We have found when using the prefinished hardwood floors that less can go wrong while installing it into a job.

Laminate flooring installation; you may lose your mind if you are not careful. So many laminate flooring is sold as a do it yourself product. We caution you to work with a box of the product before you make your purchase. We have seen many advertisements to encourage a laminate flooring that is for the do it yourself kind of person. Not all laminate flooring install easy for the do it yourself customers. In fact many of the laminate flooring will drive a profession floor layer half crazy. If you are planing to purchase laminate flooring to install yourself, it would be a good idea to order a box if necessary to insure it will work out the way you might hope. After working with a box of the laminate flooring if you start having a hard time putting it together, have the salesperson or a installer give you some tips to make it easier. If that does not help you with connecting the boards, you should reconsider purchasing the laminate flooring. Make sure when connecting the boards you connect several rows to get full effect of how the laminate flooring installs.

There are a lot of variables that can set a company apart.

We aim to flat out give our customers friendly, honest, value with the highest level ofexpertisein the flooring industry. We see a lot of flooring consumers that are uncertain where to buy their floor covering. There are a lot of marketing campaigns that leave the customers confused and uncertain of the deal they might get. Some of the marketing campaign might say free padding with your carpet purchase or only $39. to install your whole house of carpet.

We encourage our customers to look at the bottom line and the full picture of what each company may be offering. You must see pass the marketing if you want the overall best value on your floor covering.

So we accommodate this simple fact by being intentional to always continue our growth to be better. We are a local owned and operated flooring company who is involved in our community. We care about the people of Wilmington, because we are the people of Wilmington.

We have decades of history with our installation team, which insure our customers the job they expected.

The real question people wants to know is, can you compete with the big box stores? The answer is YES. We have one of Southeast North Carolina largest quality flooring outlets packed with quality and values. We are always on the hunt to find the people of Wilmington, N.C. the best value flooring on the market.

We purchase truckloads of hardwood flooring, laminate flooring, ceramic tile, rolls of carpet, and supplies of all sorts at prices that can?t be beat. We even encourage our customers to shop around and compare us to our competitors. Many may ask why would we tell our customers to shop us? It is simple. We are very confident in the values we offer. Also we know it is one of our best advertisements for our customers to realize the value we have and to tell others of there experience.

Many people may thing that a flooring outlet store may only stock cheap ceramic tile, cheap carpets, cheap hardwood floors, cheap laminate flooring, cheap vinyl flooring, and overall low grade products. We are not just any discount flooring center. We work with some of Wilmington?s finest interior designers. Our flooring outlet has flooring product that range from the highest to the lowest grade of product.

Yes we have some cheap carpet in stock for low end rental houses. We also have Wilton carpets that normally cost over $100 per sq yd for about 75% off. We like to have a good stock of daily used flooring products but we don?t stop there. We search for some of the nicest grade of flooring at deals that can?t be beat. If we do not have exactly what you are looking for in our 12,000 sq ft. flooring outlet, we should be able to find it in our 5,000 sq ft showroom stock with over 85 different flooring suppliers products.