Hardwood Refinishing

Ultimate Guide to Hardwood Flooring Stains: Choosing the Perfect Shade for Your Home

Transforming your home begins from the ground up, and choosing the right finish for your hardwood flooring is a crucial step in achieving the perfect aesthetic. With a myriad of hardwood flooring stains available, selecting the ideal shade can feel overwhelming. Each hue can dramatically alter the mood and character of a room, from the rich warmth of walnut to the sleek elegance of a light oak. In this comprehensive guide, we will navigate the world of hardwood flooring stains, offering expert tips and insights to help you find the perfect match for your [...]

2025-11-13T18:34:35+00:00November 13th, 2025|Hardwood Flooring Stains, Hardwood Refinishing|

Transform Your Home: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Wood Floor Refinishing Companies

Transform Your Home: The Ultimate Guide to Choosing the Best Wood Floor Refinishing Companies As the heart of your home, your floors deserve the utmost care and attention. Over time, even the most beautiful wood floors can show signs of wear and tear, losing their luster and charm. If you’re contemplating a rejuvenation, you're in the right place! In this ultimate guide to choosing the best wood floor refinishing companies, we’ll navigate you through the steps needed to transform your tired floors into stunning focal points. From understanding the refinishing process to selecting the [...]

2025-10-23T19:20:54+00:00October 23rd, 2025|Hardwood Floors, Hardwood Refinishing|

Transform Your Home: The Ultimate Guide to Hardwood Flooring

Transform Your Home: The Ultimate Guide to Hardwood Flooring Transforming your home begins with the foundation beneath your feet, hardwood flooring. This timeless choice not only enhances the aesthetic of any space but also adds substantial value to your property. The warm tones and natural textures of hardwood can complement any decor style, from rustic charm to modern elegance. However, like any investment, maintaining your hardwood floors is essential for longevity and beauty. In this ultimate guide, we’ll explore everything you need to know about choosing the right hardwood flooring for your home, along [...]

Top 10 Questions About Hardwood Flooring Refinishing

Hardwood flooring is a timeless choice for any home, offering durability and natural beauty that can last for generations. However even the sturdiest hardwood floors can show signs of wear and tear over time. Refinishing your hardwood floors restores their original luster and can extend their life. Here are the top FAQs homeowners ask about hardwood flooring refinishing. What is Hardwood Floor Refinishing? Hardwood floor refinishing involves sanding down the top layer of the floor to remove scratches, stains, and imperfections, then applying a new stain and finish to protect the wood and enhance [...]

2024-07-01T19:19:59+00:00July 1st, 2024|Hardwood Floors, Hardwood Refinishing|

Oil based vs. water based polyurethane

What is the difference between water based polyurethane and oil based polyurethane? Both oil and water based polyurethanes are like a coat of armor for the hardwood floor below, protecting the wood from damage. Each type of polyurethane is a sacrificial layer that will show scratches and wear marks over time, and both oil and water based polyurethane have their strengths! DURABILITY: If each product is applied properly using quality products, the difference in durability is indiscernible. A lot of clients think that water based poly is not as durable as an oil based [...]

2021-03-25T03:37:09+00:00July 15th, 2019|Hardwood Floors, Hardwood Refinishing|

Pre-finished versus Unfinished Hardwood Floors

When it’s time to buy hardwood flooring, there are so many decisions to be made. You have to decide which rooms to floor, color, material, plank size and more. Here’s one you may not have heard of: pre-finished or unfinished flooring. If you haven’t had a wood floor installed recently, you may not even know about this option. To make the decision even harder, there are pros and cons to both types of flooring, and it may come down to simple preference. Installation Prefinished wood flooring planks are cut, sanded and finished in the [...]

How to Pick the Right Flooring Company

How to Pick the Right Flooring Company Installing new hardwood floors or refinishing your current hardwood floors is a big investment. Done right, they will bring comfort and joy to your family while increasing the value of your home. With such a large investment on the horizon, it is crucial that you invest some time and energy into picking the right hardwood flooring company to work with. While there are many home improvement projects that homeowners can successfully take on themselves; flooring is not one of those projects. There’s too much that can go wrong [...]

A Quick Guide to Refinishing Hardwood Floors

Whether it’s a secret treasure discovered under carpeting or hardwood floors you’ve had for years, uncovering and refinishing hardwood floors will bring new life and a completely new style to your home. Hardwood flooring has stood the test of time, stylistically and literally, because of its ability to be refinished. Floors can be refinished to restore the wood’s original appearance and shine, change its color or finish, or blend to with newly added wood. What’s involved? There are several steps involved in the process of refinishing and recoating, and many depend on the particular [...]

2025-05-19T20:56:23+00:00July 25th, 2018|Hardwood Refinishing|

One Stop Shop Flooring Project

We just completed this flooring project for a client. In addition to putting in new flooring, repairing old flooring, and matching stain we helped this customer take down a wall to open the floor plan up. In addition to flooring skills, our team is skilled in other areas of construction and renovation. Daniel Holyfield, the owner of Highland Hardwood Flooring also owns a renovation and construction company called Paramount Homes.

Something New…Something Old for Hardwood Floors!

Hardwood Floors - Something New and Something Old On this job we took the older hardwood floors from the bedroom and reinstalled in the hallway which is open to the living room. We then installed new oak floors with a custom stain to match the original hardwood flooring from the bedroom. A little bit of repurposing and a little bit of new. We love when we can save old hardwood floors and bring them back to the original shine.

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