Resources

Straight answers about wood floors.

From the people who sand them, lay them and come back three years later to see how they held up. No brochure language, no hedging, and nothing here is trying to sell you a floor you do not need.

Color

Every stain color, on a real floor

All 37 DuraSeal and Minwax colors, photographed on red oak and laid as a floor you can change the width of. Put two side by side, move the light from morning to lamplight, and see any of them in a real room.

37 colors · 4 plank widths · 62 rooms Planning

How to measure a room for flooring

A tape measure and a few minutes, and you will know how many cartons to buy. Rectangles, L shapes, closets, stairs and doorways, drawn out, with a helper that adds up your rooms and works out the cartons for any floor we sell.

Step by step · rooms helper · cartons for any floor Species

How hard is your wood floor?

The Janka hardness test drawn to scale, and every wood sold as flooring on one chart, with the 13 we carry marked. What the number means for heels, pets and chairs, and what it does not tell you.

41 flooring woods · 183 measured · USDA Wood Handbook Design

Flooring vision boards

One floor with a whole room around it: wall paint, trim, cabinets, wood, rugs and metals chosen by measurement, with the maker codes and light reflectance, and the floor in finished rooms.

145 boards · 6 styles · AI assisted rooms

Being written.

Each of these is a real question we get asked in the showroom every week, so each one is getting a proper page rather than a paragraph.

Species

Red oak, white oak, maple and the rest

Why the same stain lands warm on one and gray on another, and which floors forgive a busy house.

Width

Narrow strip, wide plank, and what changes

What a 2¼ inch floor does to a small room that a 7 inch floor cannot, and where engineered earns its place.

Finish

Waterborne, oil, and how long you stay off it

What each one looks like, what it costs you in days, and which rooms argue for which.

Living with it

Keeping a wood floor looking new

What actually damages a finish, what does not, and the cleaning advice that quietly ruins floors.

Before we start

What happens on the day, and the week before

Dust, noise, where the furniture goes, and how long before you can walk on it in socks.

The best resource is still a person.

Everything here helps you arrive with better questions. It does not replace somebody standing in your hallway looking at what you actually have. That visit is free, and it is where the real answers come from.