There are many choices to make when deciding how you want your home to look and feel. From paint colors, wallpaper, carpeting, and trim, choices are abundant! One of the best decisions you can make for your home is to install or maintain hardwood floors.
Installing hardwood floors in your home has benefits that will last decades, even a lifetime.
Hardwood Floors Add Value to Your Home
Potential home buyers want to purchase a home with hardwood floors. Installing, refinishing, or maintaining hardwood floors throughout your home can add value to the house itself. Hardwood floors can also make your home stand out from other homes at the same listing price if you are thinking of selling your home. This can lead to more competitive bid prices, driving up the value of your home even further.
Improved Look
From a purely aesthetic viewpoint, carpet is a thing of the past. More and more potential homebuyers have hardwood flooring on their wish list for a home and owners are more likely to rip out old stale carpeting before any other home improvement job. Interior designs are currently centered around rich, lustrous hardwood floors that create a cozy and modern atmosphere in homes.
Low Maintenance
Unlike carpet, which retains stains, dirt, and dust, cleaning and maintaining hardwood floors is a breeze. When carpeting gets dirty homeowners must painstakingly steam clean it or hiring professional cleaners to have it treated. Tile grouting is easily stained and takes lots of elbow grease, or a professional, to maintain its color and cleanliness whereas synthetic flooring like linoleum discolors over time and looks perpetually dingy.
In contrast, hardwood floors are so easy to wipe down and maintain. A small spill is no big deal on a nonporous surface like sealed hardwood and high traffic areas are not easily worn down but maintain a beautiful sheen and color.
Durable and Easy to Refinish
There isn’t a flooring option as durable as hardwood. Tile floors can chip, carpet stains and wears things, linoleum discolors, and synthetic flooring buckles, but well-maintained hardwoods can outlast them all. Hardwoods are also easy to refinish if it becomes damaged.
Updating the look of hardwood floors, as styles and tastes change, is equally easy and affordable. Unlike carpet whose color, texture and pattern cannot be changed, hardwoods are easy to update. Hardwoods are long-lasting and durable. It’s easy to breathe life back into decades-old hardwood by treating and refinishing the floor, which is much more affordable than ripping out and completely replacing flooring throughout a home.
More Hygienic and Better Air Quality
There is nothing more disgusting than a house full of dingy, dirty carpet. Even expensive professional cleaning doesn’t totally remove the grim of old carpet, especially if there are kids or pets involved. Carpet traps dust and other allergens that even vacuuming can’t remove. In contrast, non-porous hardwoods are easy to disinfect and keep hygienic. This cuts down on airborne pollutants that can irritate allergy-prone individuals.
Hardwoods Are the Best Option
Whether you are looking to add value to your home, invest in a chic style upgrade, or install flooring that is durable and easy to clean, hardwood floors are the obvious choice. Install hardwoods today and start enjoying a cleaner, modern, and cozy-looking home!
If you are ready to love having new hardwood floors, Cameron the Sandman can make it happen. Our hardwood flooring company is family owned and operated for over 80 years and is metro Detroit’s premier flooring company for many reasons. Our hardwood flooring services are provided with a commitment to the highest quality work and skill in the flooring industry. Whether you need wood floor restoration, refinishing services, or new hardwood floor installation you are in good hands. Call and speak with a flooring specialist today!