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Flooring Around the World: 5 Global Styles You Can Make Your Own

Flooring Around the World: 5 Global Styles You Can Make Your Own

Somewhere in your saved photos, there's a room you've never forgotten. For some, it's zellige shimmering up a Marrakech courtyard wall. For others, it's pale oak running the length of a Copenhagen flat. Photos like these are easy to collect. What they never include is a path into your own house: a name for the look, the craft behind it, and a local source for the materials. 

This guide supplies that path for five traditions in global flooring design. While the styles come from around the world, every material behind them is sold and installed right here in Greater Cincinnati. 

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Should You Replace Your Flooring Before Selling? Here's How to Decide

Should You Replace Your Flooring Before Selling? Here's How to Decide

When you're getting ready to sell your home, the floors deserve a hard look before the listing goes live. If you've been living with scratched hardwood, worn carpet, or dated tile, you're probably wondering whether those floors need attention before buyers see them. It's a fair question to wrestle with. Spending money on a house you're leaving feels like a gamble, but letting the wrong floors go untouched can cost you at the closing table. 

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The Best Flooring for Your Home's Architectural Style

The Best Flooring for Your Home's Architectural Style

May 4, 2026  |  Flooring Types, Style

A floor can be stunning on its own and still feel wrong in the wrong room. That tension almost always comes down to one thing: the floor doesn't match the architecture above it. 

Every home carries a design personality shaped by its era, its proportions, and its details.

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shadows cast in the corner of a room text reads How do floors affect a home's temperature

How Do Floors Affect My Home's Temperature?

September 6, 2024  |  Flooring Guide, Flooring Types, Room Temperature

When searching for new floors for your home, you have many different options to consider. From hardwood to laminate, each flooring option offers its own unique advantages. Determining the right choice for you is about identifying your priorities and then finding a corresponding flooring choice that fits your needs.  

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Tan carpet and gray tiles with the text "Carpets to Tiles: A Journey into Flooring Options"

Carpets to Tiles: A Journey into Flooring Options

August 21, 2023  |  Flooring Types, Tips and Tools

Renovating your home is an exciting time. It is the culmination of months or years of planning, saving, and imagining ways to better use your space.  

One of the most important parts of any home renovation project is selecting new floors for a given room.

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Water resistant flooring

Tile and Vinyl: The Best Water-Resistant Flooring for Your Home's Wet Areas

February 20, 2023  |  flooring types, water resistant flooring

We all have that one room in our home that, despite our best efforts, is constantly assailed with water, mud, and grime.  


For some
, this room is their kitchen, for others, it is their foyer. Whatever room it is in your home, it can be endlessly frustrating to watch your floors deteriorate under the stress of water and mud. 
 

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