Wooden staircases are an extremely popular and stylish option at this moment in time. With more and more people choosing wooden flooring for the main rooms in their home, these same people often look to extend this interior styling to their staircases. If you’re building a brand new home from scratch, you may well have…
Installing decking is a great way to revitalise your garden, but what type should you go for – hardwood, softwood or PVC? Garden decking is a great, versatile landscaping feature. It can be used to create an outdoor dining or seating space, a poolside or hot tub area or even a path or steps.…
If you’re looking for a way to fill gaps in your unfinished wood floors, it is probably the case that your floor has been subject to some expansion and contraction since it was first laid and you have now been left with gaps you’d like to fill. There is one thing worth saying before you…
Click (or lock) flooring is a relatively new type of wood flooring option. Essentially a way of covering existing flooring (but not uneven wood floors or carpet), it gets its name from the fact that the boards used in its construction process “click” (or lock) together, removing the need for fixing using nails, staples or…
Before explaining the difference between parquetry and marquetry, it’s probably worth defining exactly what is meant by each term. Not particularly commonly used terms in day to day language, most people have a notion of what is meant by parquetry and marquetry, but the detail is worth exploring to enable the differences to become…
Maintenance oils and lacquers for wood floors are a great bonus for anyone whose floor has a tough life, because they truly breathe new life into a tired looking floor. Designed to be applied over your floor’s existing finish, maintenance oils and lacquers are thinner than their full floor finish equivalents and don’t require…
When you decide to invest in a new wood floor, it’s really important to pay attention to the best direction in which to lay the floor. That said, if you are laying a new wood floor over an existing wood floor, the direction you lay the floor will be determined by the direction of the…
Oak flooring in restaurants is a really popular style choice. No matter whether the food in the restaurant is modern or traditional, you can be certain that oak flooring will match the ambiance and enhance the interior design. As with any wood flooring in any commercial setting, the three most important things to take…
If you’re looking for help to repair scratches on lacquered floors, there’s one easy answer and that’s a lacquer pen. A lacquer pen is a pen which contains wood coloured lacquer and allows you to tackle random or non-extensive scratches on lacquered floors. Lacquer pens typically have a tip which can be adapted to…
More and more people are choosing oak flooring for their homes, but many parents still ask, “is oak flooring suitable for children’s rooms?”. Often worried about the hardness of the surface and gaps, which may appear thanks to natural expansion and contraction, parents question the suitability of oak flooring as an option for their…
If you’re searching for ways of repairing scratches on oiled floors, the chances are you’ve invested in a nice new wooden floor and had a bit of an “accident”. Alternatively, scratches could be caused by simple wear and tear. The approach you take to repairing the scratches on your oiled floor will depend to…
Wood is a natural product and as such expands and contracts with changes in atmospheric conditions. It is for this reason that wooden floors need an expansion gap. Solid wood floors take in moisture when there is a high level of humidity in the air and let that moisture go when the humidity reduces. High…