Category Archives: Hardwood and Laminate

Visualize your Choices

For most people, it’s hard to take samples of wood, carpeting, stone and paint and truly imagine what a room will look like when it’s done. Understanding that challenge, at O’Krent’s we’ve put together a virtual room designer that does the imagining for you. To begin, choose a room that compares best to whichever room [...]
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Honey Splated Maple – Product of the Week

When you hear the term Honey Splated Maple pictures of laminate flooring probably don’t come to mind. We are featuring Honey Splated Maple flooring as our product of the week. These gorgeous warm toned floors are laminate. Yes, that’s right – laminate. Why do hard wood floors get all the attention? Laminate flooring’s popularity has [...]
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Take a Look

Just like this photo, in our lives we’re always looking through openings into other areas. Sometimes it’s an archway such as this one, sometimes it’s just a door into another room. Let’s take a look at how the view from this archway can expand our view of our own homes. Notice that the first thing [...]
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Dining Room with Drama

Dining rooms provide fun opportunities to bring drama to a space. Evening dinner parties or afternoon social events make the dining table a center for entertainment. To add personality to your dining room, how about adding wood flooring with flair? This choice has strong variations in tone, color and plank length, creating a floor that [...]
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Frontier Home Showcases Wood

What a good example of what a typical frontier home looked like many years ago. This provides a look at the original open-concept home, with one room serving as kitchen, dining and living rooms. First, notice the lovely wood surfaces all around this room. The walls are log on the outside, hand-scraped wood on the [...]
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Baseboards Frame your Floors

This cat is doing something many homeowners should consider – taking a look at the baseboards in their homes. When you’re considering a change in flooring, also consider whether your baseboards live up to your dream of each room. If you want to create a heritage look in your home and are considering crown molding, [...]
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Flooring for Teen Rooms

Decorating a teen room can be tricky.  The décor that once suited a child is now too juvenile for the young adult in your house. How to select flooring for your teen’s room is a balance between pleasing their individual tastes and suiting the rest of the home’s décor.  You’ll want to find a flooring [...]
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Engineered Wood: Beautiful and Workable

Have you been considering remodeling to include a wood floor? You may want to investigate your choices in engineered wood. You’ll find a rich variety of types of wood, plank width and finishes. One solid advantage to engineered wood comes with the installation. If you’re adding wood floors to your existing home, the engineered option [...]
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Increase Your Chances for Quick Sale and Higher Resale Value with Hardwood Flooring

Q: I have been preparing to sell my house located in an affluent neighborhood. What flooring is best for a quicker sale and for increasing resale value? A: Of course, you want your house to look its best so you can push for a quicker sale and up the resale value as high as you [...]
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Wood Floor Medallions for Interest and Beauty

We’re seeing beautiful wood floor medallions on many interior design blogs and in all the shelter magazines these days. The trend is to create amazing focal points in rooms such as the foyer or the middle of the bath floor. Mostly seen in traditional, French country or Mediterranean style homes, wood medallions are a creative, [...]
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