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Cork flooring – beautiful and an eco-friendly choice for your home

by Tricia

Are you thinking about replacing the flooring in your home? Perhaps tearing out your wall to wall carpeting and putting down a beautiful wooden floor?

That certainly seems to be the trend these days. I can even say that my own home has no carpeted floors. We tore them out when we first moved in because we both have allergies to dust mites, cats and dogs and the former home owners had had a cat. We were also lucky enough to discover that the flooring beneath the carpeting was in fairly good shape and only needed a little bit of work in order to regain it’s former beauty.

If we’d found that we had to replace the current flooring we might have chosen to go with cork. I’ve actually thought of replacing the not so nice looking laminated fake wood flooring that’s in our kitchen with cork flooring.

Have you ever thought of using cork flooring? It’s durable and comes in many different styles and colors from natural honey tones to red, green, chocolate, black and many other shades. Have a look at three different types I’ve selected to show you:

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The first image is a natural bamboo style cork flooring, while the second cork flooring image is called Stone Cream (both by Valencia) and it almost looks like marble doesn’t it? The last image is called Mediterranean (by DaVinci) and it has a rich red tone to it.

You could easily purchase a style and color of Cork Flooring to suit any room in your home.

As someone who tries to live green the idea of using an easily renewable product such as cork flooring in my home is appealing.

When cork is collected for use in the creation of flooring and other products no trees are cut down. No. Instead, the bark is peeled from parts of the tree without harming the tree at all. New bark grows back within nine to ten years and is ready to be harvested once again.

See how environmentally friendly cork flooring really is? No trees are cut down or harmed at all. The fact that the trees remain in place and standing likely means that the delicate eco-systems that live in an around the trees probably have very little disruption.

Floormall.com carries several cork flooring lines made by some of the top manufactures in the business. Valencia, Da Vinci, Natural Cork, Wicanders, and APC cork floors are featured cork flooring manufacturers at the Floormall.com. I believe the majority of the cork flooring styles sold at the Floormall.com website are glue-less joint systems, which means they should be easy to install in your home.

If cork flooring sounds like it might be a great choice for your home visit the floormall.com. You can talk to a live service representative 7 days a week/ 24 hours a day if you have questions.






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Buy new blinds and get your money back with innovative new program

by Tricia

How would you like to be able to Shop for Free Window Blinds? Certainly if you need blinds for you windows I’ll bet that you’d appreciate getting them free.

This is a very interesting idea and I hope that more companies adopt this patent-pending method of shopping.

The idea behind this is that you’d visit Freeblinds.com and shop for window blinds just like you would at any other online store. The difference is that once you get to the check out and pay for the blinds that you’ve just ordered you’ll be given a unique code, lets call it a referral code. All you have to do at that point is share your referral code with others. You’ll then receive 20% of their product purchase.

So, just for the sake of simplicity, if the blinds you purchase are $100 and five of the people you give your referral code also buy blinds worth $100 you’ll get $20 from each of their purchases and in no time the new blinds hanging in your living room or bedroom will end up being absolutely free.

If you have friends, family or co-workers who need new blinds it should be easy enough to pass on your referral code. Even easier if you have a blog or website as you can embed a banner in your web site or myspace page. Freeblinds.com makes it easy to hand out your referral code to as you can print out cards with your unique code on it once you are in the checkout area. You can also opt to enter the names and email of friends and family while in the checkout area and Freeblinds.com will send them an email with your referral code.

You will keep receiving 20% of the purchase price from all of the people who use your referral code until 100% of your purchase is has been returned.

I don’t need new blinds right now so I’ll bookmark the site and likely use it in the future. They do have a wide selection of blinds, shades, and motorized shades and blinds to choose from as well as installation instructions and other information about blinds and shades.

If you need new blinds visit the site. You can’t lose since you’re sure to eventually get your money back.

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I found the perfect stainless steel range hood for our kitchen reno

by Tricia

I am so happy that our house guests are gone! Now I can get back to blogging on a regular basis again. Can you believe I’ve had up to nine house guests in my home over the last week!

My 19 year old niece brought a college girlfriend with her and I ended up going shopping with them twice. I forgot how much teenage girls like to shop!

While they were trying on clothes, shoes, cosmetics and buying bathing suits that they didn’t even use at the beach, I wandered around and I found a really nice store that sold home appliances and I spent some time in their modern kitchen showroom.

You might remember that I’ve said one of the rooms we hope to renovate soon is our kitchen. I’m always interested in getting ideas or finding items that I want to purchase for our kitchen.

Well I must say that I was successful in finding something for my kitchen that we actually need right now. It’s a range hood. The one that we have over our stove came with the house and it died last year!

Since I’ll be changing the whole layout of the kitchen when we renovate I’m going to wait to buy a range hood that suits the new modern look of our kitchen. I’m certain that I found the one that I want though.

range_hood-galaxy2.jpg Futuro Futuro makes a large variety of Italian made range hoods. The kitchen showroom that I was browsing around in had a few different models of wall mounted and island mounted range hoods and I think I found the perfect style for our new kitchen.

Isn’t that a beautiful range hood? I could build my whole kitchen design around that sleek modern beauty.

It has four speed electronic controls, two halogen lights, automatic thermo protection and it runs very quietly. Obviously it’s also a modern stainless steel design. It’s three filters are dishwasher safe too so it will be easy to clean and maintain.

My husband loves the design too. You see he wasn’t with us on our shopping trip so I came home and looked up the manufacturer so I could show him the range hood I’d found and he agrees with me that it will make a fantastic addition to our kitchen renovation plans. So I’m a happy lady. I have the go ahead to buy this range hood when we’re ready.

What do you think of this range hood. Would you like to have something like this in your kitchen?

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