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Sponsored Blog: How to Use the Color Wheel to Get the Color You Want

DuraSeal's Toby Merrill explains how wood flooring pros can use the color wheel to help adjust color when using wood flooring stains.

November 27, 2018

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Sponsored Blog: This Is What Happens When You Rush a Job

DuraSeal's Toby Merrill discusses some of the perils of rushing a stain and finish job, including white lines and more.

September 26, 2018

What looks like white lines on this floor is peeling of the two-component water-based finish due to insufficient stain dry time.

Today’s Wood Flooring Stains: What You Need to Know

A deep dive into wood flooring stains: what they are, how they work, things to avoid when applying them and more.

May 22, 2018

Photo courtesy of Joshua Crossman, PTL Hardwoods, Yelm, Wash.

Circular Wood Flooring Showroom Pattern Proves a Point

Locals wanted their wood floors ripped out and replaced. Ovi Ragalie decided to show them what they'd be missing.

May 21, 2018

Sponsored: New Wood Flooring Colors for a New Year

Heather Lindemann of Bona US explains some of the color trends to expect in 2018.

November 28, 2017

Bona DriFast® Stain Graphite over waterpopped white oak.

Sponsored: Coloring Real Wood Flooring With Oil and Wax

Osmo's Dirk Horstman explains details about working with colored oil-and-wax-based finish.

August 1, 2017

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Impermanent Floor Stencils Leave Lasting Impression

This impermanent stencil design could make you your client's permanent flooring contractor.

June 6, 2017

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A Perfectly Imperfect Colored Herringbone Floor

An imperfection in milling thickness creates a unique look for this herringbone floor.

June 1, 2017

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Custom Color From Coast to Coast

Three high-end wood flooring contractors discuss how they use stains, oils, reactive products and more to create complex colors on wood flooring.

May 22, 2017

For this home in the Hamptons on Long Island in New York, Allstate Flooring installed 5-inch-wide white oak in 2- to 10-foot lengths and created the extremely popular ceruse effect using Rubio Fume and Super White 2C oil.

Wall of Shame: Crazy Stain Job

What happens when you put sealer and stain on a wood floor in the wrong order? This happens.

May 22, 2017

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Sponsored: Create Accents With Colored Hardwax Oils

December 5, 2016

Applying colored hardwax oil is very simple.

An Elegant Black Wood Floor in the Windy City

December 5, 2016

Photo by Tony Soluri

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The Next Generation: Black Wood Floor Pros Look to the Future of the Industry

WFB spoke with Black wood flooring pros from across the U.S. and beyond to share their thoughts, experiences and advice for building and uplifting the next generation of Black hardwood flooring pros.

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From Start to Finish: How We Did This Gym Floor

The raised edge of this wear layer (lamella) was created by shrinkage due to seasonal low relative humidity.

Engineered Flooring and Low RH: What Can Happen and Why

Our company fell victim to a new type of scam going around. We’re bolstering our security measures to prevent it from happening again.

How We’re Adapting to the Latest Credit Card Scams

My family thought I was nuts when I said I wanted to buy an electric work van.

Why I Bought an Electric Work Vehicle

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