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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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If you’ve used the Ortho Evra Patch read this …

by Tricia

If you’ve experienced any kind of medical symptoms or adverse side effects after using the Ortho Evra you may qualify to enter into the
Ortho Evra Lawsuit – Birth Control Patch claim that is in the works at this time.

To learn more about the side effects that others have experienced while using the ortho evra patch click on the lawsuit link. You’ll be taken to a page where you’ll be provided with more information and asked to complete some simple screening questions.

The questions are designed to help you determine if you need medical treatment or legal assistance to cover the cost of treatment, or if you may be at risk for adverse side effects.

Filed Under: Health, Health and Fitness, Home and Lifestyle Tagged With: birth control, financial assistance, lawsuit, medical treatment, Ortho Evra, patch, Questions, risks, screening, side effects, symptoms, used patch, women

Garden Q & A – Perennial Morning Glories

by Tricia

I received a question from a visitor asking if a perennial variety of purple morning glory exists.

Convolvulus mauritanichus or Ground Morning Glory is a perennial. It’s leaves are gray-green and it has lavender blue flowers. This species of perennial morning glory blooms from June through to November.
Ipomoea acuminata, Blue Dawn, is another form of perennial morning glory. It’s a vigorous grower that would be great for banks or walls. This morning glory has dark green leaves and bright lavender blue flowers.

Lavender blue might be too light a purple shade for the reader who posed the question, However both of these plants are easy to care for perennials.

Feel free to leave me garden or plant related questions. I’d be happy to try to find the answers for you.

Filed Under: In The Garden, Questions and Answers Tagged With: Answers, Blue Dawn, Convolvulus mauritanichus, Ground Morning Glory, In The Garden, Ipomoea acuminata, morning glory, perennial, perennial morning glory, Questions, Questions and Answers

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