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Best Hardwood Floor Options for Families

Best Hardwood Floor Options for Families

For busy families with kids and pets, it’s important to consider which flooring material is best suited for and durable enough to handle tots’ toys, and pets’ paws while also providing impeccable style. Here, are our top picks for every room in the home.

Hardwood Floors – For playrooms and bedrooms, hardwood floors offer lasting strength while enhancing a spaces warmth and beauty. Since wood also acts as a good insulator, hardwood floors are actually warmer than other floors. Plus, it’s easy to clean and maintain and doesn’t collect dust, pollen, or mold (good for children with allergies). Lighter colors such as Palermo European White Oak and Lucca Rustic European White Oak are great for heavy-traffic areas and also make a room appear cleaner. Hardwood floor options with a distressed finish such as Vasto and Ravenna hide scuffs and scratches well. See Arimar’s array of hardwood floors, offered in numerous colors from light grays to dark browns and also available in wide-plank options.

Engineered Hardwood Floors – For kitchens and basements, engineered flooring lends a versatile, highly durable alternative that will stand up to time. Engineered flooring is made from real wood; however, unlike solid wood flooring–which is made from one piece of wood– engineered hardwood is actually made up of three or more layers of wood. This carefully constructed multilayer process also makes engineered flooring resistant to moisture and humidity, furnishing a superior selection for spaces where light moisture might be present. Check out Arimar’s vast selection of engineered hardwood floors comes in many shades from light browns and rich cherry to dark browns and ebony. Contact Us for more information

Industry Outlook published by NWFA

Industry Outlook published by NWFA

What I read this week by Maria

Industry Outlook published by National Wood Flooring Association. (Part 1)

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A greater number of respondents were pessimistic about the next year than in recent years’ surveys. Nearly a quarter said they expected sales to be down, either somewhat or significantly in 2020 compared with 2019. In 2018, just 9 percent said the same about 2019.

The shift seems in line with other national surveys that indicate a slight slowdown in spending on items like flooring. The Leading Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA), released in July 2019 by the Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University, estimated that annual gains in homeowner expenditures for improvements and repairs would shrink from 6.3 percent in the current quarter to just 0.4 percent by the second quarter of 2020.

The researchers blamed declining home sales and home building activity coupled with slower gains in permitting for improvement projects. But the slowdown may soften, said Chris Herbert, managing director of the Joint Center for Housing Studies, if mortgage interest rates continue to fall, incentivizing home sales, refinancing and remodeling
activity. National Association of Home Builders data for the first part of 2019 reflected a similar assessment: growth will continue, but not at the same rapid pace.

Market conditions would be better if not for labor shortages and rising construction costs making it difficult to complete some projects at prices homeowners can afford.

In fact, when asked to rank their concerns for 2020, the potential for economic slowdown tied with competition from non-wood flooring as the No. 1 issue that keeps NWFA members up at night. And about two-thirds indicated that non-wood products were having a negative impact on their wood-flooring revenue.

Forecast: Lighter Style

The style trends in hardwood floors that manufacturers, distributors, and retailers see coming in 2020 can be summed up in four words: wider, longer, lighter, and natural. “

When you’ve got this modern minimalist design where everything is very clean looking… there are definitely more white floors than there were a few years ago.” For Arimar the demand for the clean look has grown, we will be adding to our prime collection new floors arriving by mid-May.

“Matte sheen is increasing in popularity as people want a natural, ‘organic’-looking floor,” said one survey respondent. Reason why we offer the Bona Natural finish first develop for commercial purposes.

“Textures are still in demand,” one survey respondent said, “however, preference for the type of texture is evolving.” Consumers want a “lighter degree of scrape” that provides dimension but doesn’t change the feel. Check our Floor Art collection, we are the perfect fit.

Among species, oak is king – particularly white oak – and domestic species continue to be in higher demand than exotics. “Domestic hardwoods continue to hold their share because of cost, availability, and quality,”

Expected Demand by Color in 2020

Gray Stains & Finishes:          26% more, 23% less, 47% same, 4% don’t sell.

Dark Colors:                            11% more, 31% less, 51% same, 2% don’t sell.

Natural Wood Colors:            41% more, 15% less, 43% same, 1% don’t sell.

White Stain:                             35% more, 27% less, 34% same, 4% don’t sell.

Expected Demand by Type in 2020:

The engineered category will grow even more, expect lighter wire brushing, less texture, long boards & wide planks. We offer a wide range of floors you can choose from.

Expected Demand by Species:

Maple, Red Oak follow by White Oak, Hickory Pecan and American Walnut.

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Design a Room with Dark Wood Floors

Design a Room with Dark Wood Floors

With the warmth and versatility of a brown palette, it remains one of the most often used color schemes in homes and offices. Dark hardwoods can complement any room of a home. When working with dark hardwood, there are a variety of ways to complement or contrast the overall design of the room.

Arimar’s Livorno Rustic European Oak hardwood floor creates a balance between modern and traditional, making one of the most often-requested hardwood flooring selections.

Using different shades of brown in your space can make a luxurious statement. In a space with dark floors, you can pull light into a room with lighters cabinet choices, white painted walls or patterned area rugs and accessories that provide rich contrast.

Walls

Walls can complement or contrast with a hardwood floor. Light-colored walls contrast with dark floors, creating two focal points. Whereas dark walls blend in better with dark floors, creating a more neutral look. Pairing brown with pure white, such as in the pictured kitchen above, makes for a striking statement.

Windows

Windows and natural lights are other ways you can enhance the overall color scheme of a room with dark hardwood floors. In an ample room with large windows, drapes, curtains and shades can be used to create a dramatic contrast. For a room with smaller windows, allowing natural light to come into a room also showcases the beauty of the wood’s natural grains.

Furniture and cabinetry

Furniture and cabinetry also affects the visual appearance of a dark hardwood. To brighten a room, consider opting for light-colored or white pieces, such as in the pictured kitchen. If you are going for a more traditional, neutral look, you may want to think about using wood pieces that blend in with the natural wood coloring.

Accessories

Accessories and small pieces are interesting and creative ways to complement the overall design of a room and enhance the hardwood flooring. Brown and creams are natural complements to dark hardwood; pastels also work well. Artwork and rugs work to the same effect. Metallic, such as the gold-trimmed lighting fixture pictured, can add a wonderful, unexpected pop in a space.

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Livorno Wide Plank White Oak

Plant a tree, and make the world a greener place!

Plant a tree, and make the world a greener place!

Plant a tree, and make the world a greener place!

For every floor you purchase from our collections, Arimar will sponsor the planting of a tree in your honor! A card will be mailed to you. Call us today and ask about our “Plant-a-Tree” program. Together, we can make the world a greener place, one tree at a time.

 

Wood Floors: The Environmentally Friendly Option

Wood Floors: The Environmentally Friendly Option

There is a growing trend in customers interested in long-term sustainable solutions for flooring. They want high quality, eco-friendly flooring for their homes, opting more often for hardwood flooring and engineered wood flooring over other alternatives.

According to the National Wood Flooring Association, of which Arimar is a member, wood floors are the most environmentally friendly flooring option available. Unlike other flooring materials, the raw materials used to make them – trees – can regrow after they are cut down, which replaces the material that is harvested.

We believe that every company has a duty to be environmentally responsible and we take this responsibility very seriously. All our materials are sourced from sustainable managed forests and meet stringent global environmental standards. Wood, if sourced correctly, is one of the most renewable resources in the world. Other kinds of man made floors are produced in factories which requires huge amounts of energy and the emission of more greenhouse gases.

In the United States, the hardwood forests that provide flooring products are growing more than twice as fast as they are being harvested, according to the National Wood Flooring Association. Although it usually takes hardwood trees about 40 to 60 years to mature (depending on the species), wood flooring can last well beyond 100 years in service when properly maintained. Wood also stores carbon during its service life and is a carbon-neutral product. This means any manufactured wood product – furniture, cabinets, wood floors, or even picture frames – continues to store carbon as a manufactured end-product.

Wood floors also reduce the amount of waste in our landfills because they can last for many generations and require fewer raw materials to produce than other flooring options. Wood floors can be recycled into other materials. Wood is combustible, which means it can be used as fuel or as a heating source. If the wood does end up in the landfill, it is biodegradable, which means it will decompose.

One of the best ways to reduce landfill waste with wood is to utilize it for reclaimed flooring. This is a process where old wood is used to make new wood flooring. Reclaimed wood can come from a variety of sources, including wood salvaged from old barns or factories, and logs recovered from river and lake bottoms. Flooring made from reclaimed wood is truly unique and displays significant history and character.

We use wood that is planted to produce natural rubber as the base for our products. This means the tree is neither removed from the forest nor cut down for timber. It is only felled when it must be replaced towards the end of its natural productive life. In fact, around 70% of every board we produce as finished flooring is from plantation sourced wood.

We at Arimar take every care to ensure that we purchase only legally sourced timber. You may therefore walk on your beautiful floor with absolute confidence that you have made the right choice for both you and our planet.

Call us today to request a sample, and ask about our latest flooring specials!

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