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How To Choose Flooring For Your Home

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Whether you are building a new home, remodeling your home, or just ready to replace your floors, knowing which floors to invest in can be overwhelming. Flooring is the backdrop for your interior design, but you must also consider what the room will be used for, how much wear and…

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Why Buy Waterproof Flooring

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Water is inevitable. No matter how careful you are sometimes spills happen. Your floors shouldn’t suffer because your kid likes to play pirate in the bathtub or if your loved ones aren’t the best at remembering to dry off after swimming before traipsing through the house. You also shouldn’t have…

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The Best Floors For A Ranch Style Design

Best Floors For A Ranch Style Design | Carpet Mart

Ranch-style homes lend themselves perfectly to chic, rustic styles. Whether you have a contemporary taste or prefer to feel like you’re living in the Wild West, the right floors can turn a project house into a home you’ll never want to leave. So, we’ve put together a list of some…

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How to Protect Your Hardwood Floors

Kid playing on hardwood floor

Hardwood floors aren’t just beautiful, they’re also an investment in your home’s long-term value. Whether they were there when you moved in or you scrimped and saved to have them laid, your hardwoods are worth protecting. Luckily, keeping your floors shiny and new isn’t hard. Our hardwood experts put together…

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The Best Tile For Showers

Lavish bathroom tiles

Don’t be overwhelmed by all your options for shower tile. There are more varieties of shower tile than ever before, so it’s more important than ever to choose the right kind. Aside from style and aesthetics, make sure to choose tiles that can handle moisture and heat from the shower…

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The Do’s and Don’ts of Patterned Carpet

Living room flooring

New carpeting can add a little charm and warmth to any room. Whether you’re remodeling your home or simply looking to refresh your space, the right carpet will make or break any style. While solid-color carpets are a safe bet, patterned carpets have become an increasingly popular way to accentuate…

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How To Use Warm and Cool Tones To Choose New Flooring

Wall paintings

Your flooring choice helps set the tone for the room and should be taken into consideration in the overall design of your home. There are several decisions to make based on your preference, style, and lifestyle: Hard surface or soft? Pattern or solid? Focal point or background? And, of course,…

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How To Measure for Vinyl Flooring

Dining room flooring

Vinyl flooring is becoming one of the most in-demand styles of floor thanks to its durability, low price point, and ease of installation. Whether you’re a first time DIYer or seasoned carpenter with years of experience, laying vinyl floors is easy and simple. Before you decide on what style, color,…

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Which Direction To Install Vinyl Plank Flooring

Vinyl plank flooring

<pVinyl plank flooring has seen a surge in popularity over the last few years as the ultimate combination: all the beauty of hardwood in the form of durable, long-lasting vinyl planks. These beautiful planks are available in a diversity of realistic colors, styles, and textures and, unlike hardwood, are extremely easy to lay. Whether this…

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The Benefits of Installing Pattern Carpet on Your Stairs

Installing Pattern Carpet on Your Stairs

For many of us, stairs are an essential part of living. Whether in the home, at the office, visiting the doctor, or shopping for clothes, stairs are part of getting us where we need to go. For homeowners, stairs can be one of the highest traffic areas of the house.…

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Protecting Your Flooring During A Move

Flooring

While often exciting, moving can be a tremendously tiring process. There is the packing, the truck rental, the convincing friends to help, and then the moving itself. All of these tasks when taken individually are doable, but when lumped together can lead to one exhausting affair. There is one aspect…

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Which Flooring Adds Value To Your Home?

For the average homeowner, a new flooring purchase and installation represents a major investment that must balance several important factors. In addition to working within flooring budget parameters, new flooring must meet current household demands and potentially attract prospective homebuyers down the line. If you have ever wondered to yourself…

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Open Your Space With Wide Plank Flooring

Plank Flooring | Carpet Mart

Whether you’re looking to enhance the flow of an open floorplan or give a confined area a larger feel, using a wider plank can help you achieve a finished floor that maximizes smaller square foot spaces effectively. It’s no secret that wide plank hardwood flooringis trending with designers, homeowners, and…

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How To Properly Rip Up Carpet Flooring

Carpet Flooring | Carpet Mart

With a multitude of easy-to-install DIY flooring options available to homeowners and builders, it’s never been easier to complete a quick remodel or design refresh! Many hard surface options such as laminate and vinyl even offer click-lock plank technology and floating floor capability for adhesive-free installation. However, for most floating…

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What’s the Best Type of Flooring for Your Home Office?

Rug for Home office | Carpet Mart

With more jobs transitioning to work-from-home and hybrid work situations over the past couple of years, homeowners are finding that creating a home office is an increasingly valuable use of space. If you are repurposing an old bedroom into an office, you may find that the flooring needs an upgrade…

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How To Install Bathroom Floor Tile

Tile installation | Carpet Mart

If you are ready to complete a dazzling bathroom remodel, there’s a great chance that you’ve landed on stylish, timeless tile to update your bathroom flooring. In addition to reliable durability and moisture resistance, both ceramic and porcelain tile options present vast design capability that allows you to create a…

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The Top Flooring Trends For 2022

With the new year upon us, now is the perfect time to use the excitement of the months ahead to bring your refresh and remodel ideas to life. Are you already leaning towards a favorite flooring option or design style? Here are a few inspired 2022 flooring trends that are…

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Top Tips for Cleaning Waterproof Laminate Flooring – Carpet Mart

Durable, beautiful, and inexpensive compared to other flooring options, laminate is one of the most sought-after options on the market. Able to mirror other more expensive materials, laminate flooring is ideal for homeowners looking to add style to their homes while on a budget. While laminate flooring is, indeed, a…

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The Best Flooring For Your Pets – Carpet Mart

For many of us, pets are an integral part of our lives. Whether we are talking about Daisy the Golden Retriever, Franklin the Tabby cat, or Peter the domesticated bunny rabbit, our pets are an extension of our family and as such, they end up spending a great deal of…

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