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Hardwood Floors: A Top Sought-After Feature for Homebuyers
🏡According to analysts at Frontdoor, The Most Sought-After Home Feature on Zillow is Hardwood Floors! 🌳🔍 📊 Key Findings: Hardwood floors are a top favorite, due to their aesthetics, durability, and easiness to clean. Over half (54%) of home hunters are willing to pay more for a home with hardwood floors. For 64% of homeowners, the installation of hardwood floors enhances the joy of being at home. Link to the full study in our bio!
3 Things To Know When Choosing Hardwood Floors
Choosing environmentally sustainable hardwood floors for your home can be a daunting task.. Here are the top three things to keep in mind: 💚"Green” is a loose label that can be applied to any product with a redeeming environmental value. 👍 Look for a product where the manufacturer displays certifications prominently. ⚒️Be sure to read care instructions for sustainable products in detail. #LIFECORE #LIFECOREFlooring #LIFECOREFloors #SustainableHardwoodFloors #EcoFriendlyFloors
What is an Engineered Hardwood?
LIFECORE’s Engineered Hardwoods are known for their stunning design, affordability, and unmatched health benefits. They are a popular, durable alternative to solid wood and laminate flooring. Get more answers to frequently asked questions about Engineered Hardwood, including how to care for your floors, at the link in our profile! #LIFECORE #LIFECOREFlooring #LIFECOREFloors #EngineeredHardwood #EngineeredHardwoodFloors
Healthy Houseplants for your Pets and Home!
At LIFECORE, we’re all about indoor air quality, from our ZERO-ADD technology that ensures no formaldehyde is added to our floors to our numerous air quality certifications. It’s no surprise we love designing with healthy houseplants; we've put together a list of high indoor air quality plants at our blog. #LIFECORE #hardwoodfloors #hardwood #hardwoodflooring #hardwoodfloor #healthyliving #allergies #allergyfriendly #allergyfree #houseplants #plantlover #plantlife #houseplant #houseplantclub
Hardwood Floors, Perfect for Puppies!
This little guy loves LIFECORE flooring! Our H2OME collection of hardwood floors offers waterproof protection — purrrfect for furry friends of all sizes. #designinspo #interiordesign #hardwoodfloors #puppy #doglife #puppylove
2022 Trends: Lighter + Wider Hardwood Floors
2022 sure is looking bright with our popular lighter, wider flooring options! Our on-trend light-colored, wide-plank designs are complete with proprietary ZERO-ADD® technology, which ensures no formaldehyde is added during manufacturing. Start the new year off right with updated flooring that breathes healthy life into your home! Featured floor: Brio Oak #designinspo #livingroomdesign #interiorddesign #healthyhardwoods #2022trends #interiordecortrends
Most Durable Flooring for Families with Pets
LIFECORE floors also come in five durable species. For families with pets, Hickory is a great option, known for its extraordinary durability, graining, and color variations. Combined with a hand-scraped aesthetic, it will hide potential scuffs exceptionally well.
Routine Care & Maintenance for Your Hardwood Flooring
Have spring cleaning on your mind? Using the right products is an essential part of keeping your hardwoods looking their best! Check out our tips for floor care and maintenance on our website.
Most Durable Flooring for Families with Pets
Is your flooring pet-friendly? One of the best features of H2OME Waterproof Hardwoods is that they're manufactured with ZERO-ADD technology, which means no added formaldehyde, making them safe for your fur babies.
Sustainable Wood Flooring: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Buying New Floors
What’s better: Green or Sustainable? If a flooring product was made from renewable resources, it could be labeled green, even if the brand falls short in areas of production or disposal. Sustainable hardwood flooring has a much higher standard in that it cannot detract from environmental, social, economic, and public health benefits over its entire life cycle. Though all sustainable products are green, not all green products are sustainable. Make sure you’re buying from a reputable supplier.
Sustainable Wood Flooring: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Buying New Floors
You want sustainable products that are actually sustainable. Don’t fall victim to greenwashing! A retailer who carries even just one certified sustainable hardwood flooring brand may use that product’s certification logo on their site, giving the impression that ALL of the products they carry are certified sustainable. Make sure the specific product you’re purchasing is certified.
Sustainable Wood Flooring: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Buying New Floors
Tip: Just because a product is sustainable, doesn’t mean it’s the best product for your indoor environment. Like all organic materials, wood contains trace amounts of formaldehyde naturally. Stringent legislation set forth by government agencies like CARB and EPA requires that sustainable hardwood flooring stays within their strict safety guidelines. We take that a step further with our ZERO-ADD technology, which ensures our flooring has zero formaldehyde added during the manufacturing process.
Sustainable Wood Flooring: 5 Things You Need to Know Before Buying New Floors
Looking for a sustainable choice for your hardwood floors? It can be hard to know if wood flooring is truly sustainable, and even harder to break down what this term really means. We pulled together a list of five things you need to know about sustainability before buying new floors.
7 Steps to Ensure Your DIY Hardwood Flooring Installation is Not DOA
Going DIY for President's Day Weekend? We don't recommend installing your own LIFECORE floors unless you've installed engineered hardwoods before, but we've got a few tips if you are doing it yourself!