Everything about hardwood flooring
The boardwalks at Coney Island and Atlantic City were decked in ipe that lasted 25 to 50 years under salt air, sand, and millions of…
Stain is the most misunderstood product in the finishing aisle, starting with what it is: wood stain colors wood, but it doesn’t protect it —…
Every professional floor refinisher spends part of every job on their knees with a sanding block, no matter how many machines are sitting in the…
A solid oak floor can survive a century of foot traffic, but only if someone renews the finish before the wood underneath starts taking the…
Choosing a floor finish is a bigger decision than choosing a stain color, and almost nobody treats it that way. The stain is cosmetic; the…
The most expensive misunderstanding in floor finishing is three letters long: “dry.” A floor that’s dry to the touch is nowhere near cured, and the…
I’ve stained hundreds of floors over the last two decades, and I can tell you the printed minwax stain color chart at the hardware store…
Somewhere between the cold gray floors of the 2010s and the honey oak everyone fled from sits the smartest floor color of the current decade.…
I love the look of ebony wood floors as much as any client who slides a magazine photo across my table — near-black planks, furniture…
Walk onto any professional floor-refinishing job in America and look at the stain cans lined up by the door. Odds are they say Duraseal, not…
