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Cleaning Tips and Caring

With spring around the corner, it is best to provide your house and flooring a thorough cleaning it requires. While you may wash on a weekly basis, there is a thorough deep cleaning that is needed each season to keep your home's quality. From learning about a cleanup system and business structure and tips and tricks, to the importance of cleaning your hardwood flooring, read this go-to guide for all your spring cleaning needs! Cleaning System and Schedules If it comes to a thorough spring cleaning, then it's very important to hit all the areas you don't normally clean on a regular basis. This may include your kitchen cabinets, trim, lighting fixtures, fans, picture frames, cabinets, attics, basements and more. While it's a challenge to remember these regions in your normal cleaning schedule, there are techniques to fit it in. Cleaning systems and business styles will help you manage to get these regions so you don't need to have in-depth cleaning sessions eve

Handscraped, Wirebrushed and Distressed: What’s the Difference?

Okay, so 3 of the tendencies we're about to discuss are similar and often confused together. Each textured wood option comes with its very own unique style and personality. No 2 textured wood planks must be precisely the same and each of those 3 choices has a distinguishing quality. Handscraped timber contains long, ingrained scrapes in the finish with high variation between planks, making every individual plank appear handmade, unique and rare. Wirebrushed timber reveals subtle, dull wire scratches that leave the core of the wood exposed to the surface. These imperfections are smoother and more consistent compared to handscraped or distressed wood. Distressed wood is often confused for handscraped wood. Distressed wood, however, looks as though it has been through a great deal of wear and tear. You may expect to see scrapes, burns, knots, wormholes and more, giving it an aged, vintage appearance .