Eco-friendly adhesives, resins, and other components come together to create a range of green options for walls, countertops, and floors.
A barbed-threaded design helps this unique fastener all but eliminate subfloor squeaks and reduces installation time and materials.
A high-tech gluing process fuses strips of waste hardwood into boards for flooring.
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Woven Poplar flooring is made from 100% FSC-certified recycled furniture scraps kiln-dried and cold-pressed with a hardening resin, and is free of added urea formaldehyde. The tongue-and-groove planks measure 3 7/8 inches wide by 72 7/8 inches long by 9/16 inch thick. Nail- and...
Four hand-knotted rug designs subtly incorporate imagery from nature.
A network of crosslinked polyethylene tubing to create radiant heating and cooling.
This collection comes in three patterns, each with 12 color options, and is Cradle-to-Cradle Silver certified.
Sanded and finished on-site, solid unfinished oak and hickory flooring will be flat and smooth with no irregularities, bumps, or gaps between boards, the maker says.
Commissioned by the Biltmore Estate's licensing division, Manor House flooring is handcrafted of solid oak.
Earthly Elements engineered hardwood flooring comes in 12-inch squares and 12-inch-by-24-inch rectangles, as well as traditional 6-inch planks for a range of design options.
Use well-placed carpet to jazz up common areas.
Floors offer more benefits than meet the eye
Multifamily properties look great—and save big—with faux wood flooring.
It's getting tougher and tougher to choose the perfect flooring product for your community with the ever-growing number of colors, styles, and materials on the market. But fortunately, it's getting easier to install a number of these products, thanks to innovative installation systems for both...
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George Washington would surely be impressed with today's selection of imposter building products and materials. After all, he perfected the art of imitation way back in the 1700s when he redesigned his home, the famous Mount Vernon estate just outside of Washington, D.C. The nation's first...
Sure, you need to floor residents with sparkling hardwoods and plush carpeting. But in the mad dash to find the best-looking product, don't forget that what's underneath the pretty floor is just as critical to the success of an apartment or condo community.
When architect David J. Minno agreed to design a housing and retail project on a 23-acre parking lot in South Amboy, N.J., he didn't realize it would become a history lesson. But when the grave of a woman named Mary Ellis was discovered underneath a parking space on the future site of the Raritan...
Renters-by-choice who live at The Metropolitan, a practically new but recently renovated property in Arlington, Va., don't hope for high-end stainless steel kitchen appliances and fashionable granite countertops. They expect them.
Multifamily owners and developers across the nation are responding to the growing appetite for nature-inspired elements, installing products made from natural materials or those that mimic them.
With its natural blond color and sleek look, a bamboo floor looks much like traditional hardwood floors made from trees. But there is a crucial difference: Trees take 100-plus years to harvest, while bamboo can be harvested in as little as six years.