DC Hardwood Flooring Blog

With over 30 years in the trade, I’ve seen firsthand the highs and lows of homeowners hiring contractors to work in their homes. No...

Call it what you will—a masterpiece, a labor of love, a magazine-worthy kitchen transformation. But, no matter how you describe it, the...

All my customers have a flooring story. It’s one of the things that makes my job so interesting. There is one story in particular that...

DC Hardwood Flooring has been in the hardwood flooring business for nearly three decades. There’s not a lot I haven’t seen or heard in my...

In the 30+ years I have been doing hardwood flooring, I’ve seen a lot of ideas come and go. But a few things do stick around. One most...

Nowadays with the new home building boom, it’s easy for houses to look like cookie-cutter duplicates of each other. If you have been in...

Custom Red Oak Staircase Staircase Before Staircase After Five posts were wrapped with solid red oak This project was a little outside...

I am often surprised when people ask me questions about proposals they have received from other flooring companies. So, I decided to...

Surprisingly, hardwood floors can take a lot of abuse over the years—as you can see in the picture below. Before sanding This floor has...

Want to make a statement? Feel like getting creative with your floor? How about staining your hardwood floor in a checkerboard pattern?...

Yes, we do hardwood flooring. Yes, we install new floors and refinish old floors, staining them or just coating them natural. In the past...

When faced with a decision of whether to install carpeting or hardwood flooring, doing a little math might be your best bet. It will...

Hardwood Flooring Is the Most Popular Flooring. It’s What Homeowners Want. According to HGTV, the top request of home buyers and renters...

Inlays, borders, feature strips, medallions and plank patterns add decorative design features to hardwood floors. They add visual...

I’ve done some interesting stain jobs in my time. Multi-colored footprints on a staircase. A Jimi Hendrix inspired purple haze...

This maple floor turned out beautifully! We usually avoid staining maple floors simply because they rarely turn out looking good. The...

Good news for all the people who like plank flooring. Plank flooring is anything over 3¼” in width. Planks run 4”, 5”, and 6”, all the...

Yes, we did it. We installed a yellow brick road in a child’s room for a client of ours. We used pine planks to simulate the look and...

Well, my trip to Alabama was interesting and a bit of a challenge. Being used to doing floors in a dry climate like Colorado, I was faced...

Hand-scraped flooring was a fad for a while. It gives the floor a very old, weathered, rustic look. But eventually, like all floors over...