Coles now carries Teragren flooring- a bamboo manufacturer known for its strict adherence to environmental standards & guidelines.
A powerful force in the development of eco-friendly building products, Teragren offers products with the highest quality of environmental & health standards, including LEED® certification, FloorScore® certification, and responsible harvesting & manufacturing processes.
We are proud to offer homeowners such an environmentally conscious, high-quality brand for their flooring needs. To learn more about bamboo flooring, click here.
Everyone’s joining the green movement, whether it’s purchasing a hybrid vehicle, reducing our water and energy use, or simply recycling, we should all be doing our part. When starting your next home design project, consider environmentally friendly alternatives to reduce your affect on the environment. Recycled materials typically cost less, and add the same charming decor to warm the spirits of your house.
Bamboo hard wood floors
When it comes to hardwood flooring, bamboo has become a popular option. A renewable resource that grows at exponential levels and has minimal affect on the environment. It’s a very popular hardwood flooring option because it can be stained or painted any color. You can make it look like traditional hardwood floors, or use the bamboo to highlight a unique appearance. Bamboo adds an innovative style to the possibilities of hardwood flooring.
Bamboo furniture or Wall Covers
Bamboo also makes for an affordable furniture material, perfect for kitchen tables, chairs, and bar stools. In addition, it can be used as a wall covering to compliment your furniture. Since it grows so prolifically, it’s cheap to use, and has the great qualities of hard wood. Bamboo is functionally strong, so you know your investment will be around for a long time to come.
Recycled Wall Paper
This is a hot trend in interior design, although you might want to avoid recycling the bright 70s yellow Brady Bunch wallpapers you remember from your childhood. Many companies take existing pieces of wallpaper and recycle them to make fresh new designs. Scraps of existing paper or broken paper are then added to make material that’s completely new. This saves wallpaper from ending up in a landfill and polluting the environment further.
Make Use of Distressed Wood
Distressed wood can come from broken furniture, torn down houses and even old sail boats. It’s much cheaper than new wood, but can still be reused to make quality products. The pieces are left as is, but can be sanded and stained to look new. It’s great for making wooden tables, pieces of decoration, or even a cheaper option for installing hardwood flooring.
Windshield Carpet Backing
Although you wouldn’t expect that you could make carpet from used windshields, they make excellent carpet backing. Tandus recently released Ethos, a modular carpet backing that uses waste from the manufacturers of windshields and safety glass to create a thermoplastic polymer. The non-chlorinated thermoplastic can be recycled repeatedly to divert it from landfills forever. How’s that for carpet excitement?
Redesign old drawers into furniture
Take a chest of drawers and build them into a new frame to create a charming but eco friendly new piece of furniture. This approach is retro and modern at the same time. Professional touches can range in the thousands of dollars, but find an innovative carpenter and you can probably work out a deal.
Wine Glass Furniture and Other Decorations
Some recycling companies refuse to recycle the green glass from which wine bottles are made of, leaving you with a nice collection if you save them from the landfill. These wine bottles can be cut and sanded into charming drinking glasses, lampshades, and candlestick holders. For a simpler approach, plant your wine bottles in the ground spout side down to create charming flower garden borders.
We carry a complete selection of area rug padding for your home- whether you’re going to lay your rug onto hard surface or carpet, we have an option for you.
Product: Sultan
Best Over: Hard surfaces (wood, laminate, vinyl, tile & stone)
A foam-based pad with a waffled texture- Sultan is our most basic non-slip pad for hard surfaces.
Product: Cush-n-Hold
Best Over: Hard surfaces (wood, laminate, vinyl, tile & stone)
A thicker version of Sultan, Cush-n-Hold is one step up in regards to cushioning. This is our best seller in rug padding!
Product: Super Movenot
Best Over: Carpet, tile & stone
This reversible pad has 2 sides, making it versatile enough to use on carpet, or tile surfaces. The textured, fibrous side should be laid face down for carpet. The rubberized side should be laid face down for tile & stone. This product will also prevent telegraphing of the grout lines through the rug.
Coles Fine Flooring is a proud member of both the National Wood Flooring Association (NWFA) and the World Floor Covering Association (WFCA). As a member, we are committed to living up to the standards of both organizations- to maintain a commitment to profesionalism, honesty & integrity, and to abide by all laws, regulations & statutes regarding our business.
Coles Fine Flooring is now an authorized dealer for EcoTimber, a company devoted to providing only environmentally friendly options to homeowners concerned about environmental issues. EcoTimber’s product line includes standard domestic wood such as Maple and Hickory, as well as hand-scraped and exotic wood such as Brazilian Cherry
Armstrong laminate is widely acknowledged as one of the best laminate floors in the business. Armstrong floors are designed for intense durability with a natural wood or stone appearance. However, Armstrong laminate flooring isn’t actually made from wood or stone; instead, an image of wood or travertine stone tile is applied to a special composite plank and then sealed to give it a natural, integrated appearance.
Although laminate flooring looks natural, its cleanliness far surpasses any natural material. While most wood floors have cracks and crevasses between the boards that make it almost impossible to get the floor fully clean, Armstrong laminate flooring is seamless. By simply running a vacuum over the surface of the floor you can feel confident that you are doing your part to keep your house allergen free.
Of course, there is also the traditional carpet alternative: stone tile. Travertine stone tile comes in a wide variety of colors and sizes, but also features great adaptability of installation. It can easily go either inside or outside, replacing unsightly concrete on decks or near swimming pools. But indoors it makes a lovely accent and a beautiful base for any room. Plus, the smooth, non-porous surface is easy to clean and won’t provide a catch basin for dust.
Quickstep takes allergy prevention to a new level by closing the joints between each board completely and providing an easy-to-clean surface that, when kept properly clean, is inhospitable to bacteria. Quickstep laminate flooring is made from the highest quality materials to rigorous design specifications and is available in a wide variety of styles and colors.
The Hypoallergenic Home
In today’s world, almost everyone suffers from allergies. Whether its pet dander, ragweed, pollen, or dust, small particles get trapped in eyes and noses and turn a perfectly pleasant afternoon into an itchy sneezing mess. But even once you enter your home you still aren’t safe from those contagions: if you have carpeting in your house, no matter how much you clean it, you are creating a breeding ground for allergens.
In order to improve the quality of life for yourself and for your family, you need to investigate the many stone tile, Armstrong, and Quickstep laminate flooring options that are available today. Any of these flooring styles provides a healthy, easy-to-clean surface that doesn’t trap dust. Experts have seen incredible changes in allergy sufferers just from the changing of a carpet; don’t you deserve relief from your allergies?
Parquet has a long history, dating back to the magnificent French palaces of the 17th century. But the beautiful geometric patterns, usually quite intricate, have found a place in the finest wide plank flooring and accents of today. Parquet wood flooring is excellent for adding a focal point to a room, or for creating a “room within a room” – a small space outlined with a beautiful, contrasting wood pattern in the floor which divides the space without enclosing it. Parquet provides a particularly lovely contrast when paired with warm and stately reclaimed wood floors.
So, what is parquet? Simply put, parquet is the art of wooden inlays. Parquet is typically very intricate and very elegant, requiring many hours to plan and carve. In the early days, each different parquet piece was hand-carved and assembled to ensure that it would match perfectly. Because the parquet is made entirely from wood there can be no irregularities in fit as there could be in stone floors: if two pieces of parquet are not perfectly sized they will have to be re-made.
In modern use, entire floors are rarely done in parquet. It is far more common to find parquet flooring used as an accent piece, such as a medallion set in the middle of a room and surrounded by wide plank flooring. The elegant, rich tones of the flooring provide a canvas for the parquet, allowing it to stand out and make a beautiful impression. Parquet often coordinates with any wooden furniture in the room, either contrasting with it or highlighting it to really make it pop.
Although parquet wood flooring looks beautiful with any type of wooden floor, many homeowners like to pair it with beautiful and ecologically sensitive reclaimed wood floors. These floors recycle wood from old homes and reuse it, saving trees to protect the environment while providing a lovely classic feel for your home. Parquet inlays fit right in with the rich colors of reclaimed wood and are an excellent finishing touch to any room.
In addition to reclaimed wood flooring, Coles Fine Flooring offers an excellent selection of laminate. With its wide range of color and pattern choices, laminate is an excellent choice for any home. For the green home, a wood laminate floor provides the natural look of wood without the damage to the forest. Laminate is made using an image of the desired flooring which is separated into individual planks and then highly finished and pressurized. This process gives each plank tremendous durability while making the image appear pressed into the plank and completely natural. It also makes the laminate system versatile, as almost any image can be applied.
Even better, the only thing wooden in a wood laminate floor is the name. The actual laminate boards, because of the laminate technology’s use of images, are made with much less wood than a typical wooden board of the same size. Likewise, laminate saves stone. Most people don’t think about the impact of quarries, but the process of digging for stones to be used on stone floors damages the environment almost as much as deforestation.
In addition to reclaimed wood flooring, Coles Fine Flooring offers an excellent selection of laminate. With its wide range of color and pattern choices, laminate is an excellent choice for any home. For the green home, a wood laminate floor provides the natural look of wood without the damage to the forest. Laminate is made using an image of the desired flooring which is separated into individual planks and then highly finished and pressurized. This process gives each plank tremendous durability while making the image appear pressed into the plank and completely natural. It also makes the laminate system versatile, as almost any image can be applied.
Even better, the only thing wooden in a wood laminate floor is the name. The actual laminate boards, because of the laminate technology’s use of images, are made with much less wood than a typical wooden board of the same size. Likewise, laminate saves stone. Most people don’t think about the impact of quarries, but the process of digging for stones to be used on stone floors damages the environment almost as much as deforestation.
Whether you choose reclaimed wood or laminate, thinking about the environment is just the right thing to do. And with Coles Fine Flooring, you don’t have to sacrifice selection to save the planet: we can help you find what you need while never losing sight of what the earth needs.
Although hand scraped wood floors have been around for centuries, they have only recently begun to grow popular with modern audiences. Originally, handscraping was the only option for installing wood floors: carpenters had to level the boards on location to ensure that the floor would fit smoothly and sit level on the ground. It was impossible to get complete measurements ahead of time, meaning that an experienced craftsman had to accompany the materials to the job site to ensure that the work was completed properly.
In today’s natural flooring market, handscraped wood floors are more of a luxury than a necessity. Instead of offering the required adjustments, handscraping offers such attributes as:
But how does one objectively judge what “richness” is? Is it impossible to achieve a “hand-done” look unless you use handscraping? With today’s range of natural flooring options, that hardly seems likely. Armstrong wood flooring alone offers a great variety with a much smaller price tag than handscraped flooring. Armstrong’s commitment to quality ensures that you get a fabulous product every time. They have the customer service focus that the early handscrapers must have had, the same drive to make the best product possible. But Armstrong doesn’t charge you an arm and a leg for that product.
Armstrong has adapted the handscraping process to make beautiful, one-of-a-kind floors that won’t break the bank. Armstrong wood flooring is hand-sculpted from start to finish. It is designed to look beautiful and function flawlessly. But Armstrong also offers modern conveniences: a unique interlocking floor system that eliminates the need for staples, tape, or glue of any kind, making it perfect for the do-it-yourselfer. With Armstrong’s constantly expanding selection of woods from across the world, you are sure to find a wood you love.
Coles now carries Teragren flooring- a bamboo manufacturer known for its strict adherence to environmental standards & guidelines.
Everyone’s joining the green movement, whether it’s purchasing a hybrid vehicle, reducing our water and energy use, or simply recycling, we should all be doing our part. When starting your next home design project, consider environmentally friendly alternatives to reduce your affect on the environment. Recycled materials typically cost less, and add the same charming decor to warm the spirits of your house.