There’s nothing like the feeling of real wood. Sure, plastic laminate is cheap and easy and can emulate the pattern of a real hardwood floor; but it won’t fill your home with the timeless naturalness of real hardwood. Hardwood floors have an elegant, but subtly strong and rugged essence that fills a home with the feeling of open-air spaciousness. By combining one hardwood color with a darker border around the perimeter, perhaps with four intricately-patterned decorative granite corners for an added touch, you can still achieve polished sophisticated designer looks – without the vacuuming. (more…)