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Meet the 2020 Passport to Creativity Attendees

Tile of Spain USA

This February, Tile of Spain, the international brand representing 125 ceramic tile manufacturers belonging to the Spanish Ceramic Tile Manufacturers’ Association (ASCER) will be heading back to Spain for its annual “Passport to Creativity” Tour. Each year, Tile of Spain invites a gifted group of Architects, Interior Designers and Journalists on the weeklong trip for a deep-dive into the world of Spanish tile and architecture.

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Tile of Spain Announces Winners of the 18th Annual Tile of Spain Awards

CTDA's Tiledealer Blog

Tile of Spain Announces Winners of the 18 th Annual Tile of Spain Awards. . Miami, FL December 2019 – Tile of Spain, the association of over 125 Spanish tile manufacturers, announces the winners of the 18th annual Tile of Spain Awards of Architecture and Interior Design. The panel of judges, chaired by architect Jacob van Rijs of MVRDV, met on Wednesday, November 20 th to select the award winners.

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Week of January 6, 2020

Architectural Ceramics

New Year Resolutions and Gym Design. Happy New Year! This time of year, a lot of people, about 93 percent in fact, make a New Year’s resolution. Exercising more usually tops the list for most popular New Year’s Resolutions. To ring in the New Year, we’re taking a look at some gym and fitness center design ideas to get you inspired to work out in style!

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Bathroom Design for Teens

Kitchen and Residential Design

Your teenagers probably spend more time in the bathroom than you do. So it’s not a bad idea to dedicate a bathroom just to them. But how do you transform a bathroom from a young kid’s to a teenager’s? Here are a few tips to get you started. Go from a Shower Curtain to a Showersreen There’s a fair chance you’ve still got your old shower curtain up from when your children used to play in the tub.

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Garden State Tile is Live on Material Bank!

Garden State Tile Blog

Garden State Tile has joined Material Bank , the world’s largest architectural and design-focused material resource library. Garden State Tile’s participation in Material Bank allows our customers to digitally search and physically sample dozens of our collections in a way that is fast and free for design professionals. Simply select your product from the Garden State Tile brand page and, with the click of a button, receive your samples by 10:30 a.m. the very next day.

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Ceramic: The pros and cons of natural stone

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Megan Salzano. Artistic Tile’s Verdi Alpi and Rosa Portugallo. When it comes to natural stone, specialty retail has it tough. Not only is the product particularly unique, but it comes with a set of dos and don’ts consumers are often unaware of or afraid to deal with. However, natural stone has its advantages—i.e., higher profit margins, greater application opportunities, unique style and design.

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How Your Home Can Help You Quit Smoking This Year

JG Kitchens

Quitting smoking is one of the most popular New Year’s resolutions — and one of the most frequently failed. It takes more than sheer willpower for most people to succeed at beating their nicotine habit, which can be very discouraging. The insights from a top Mayo Clinic specialist that I share in my latest article for Forbes.com can help support your healthy goal.

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Kitchen trends to embrace the new year

Trendir Magazine

This year, it’s all about embracing every room and giving it, its spotlight. Whether you’re working on redecorating your bedroom, the kitchen, the bathroom or even your foyer this year you want to create sections. Although most times, it’s all about making the entire home feel sleek, this time it’s about bringing a personal character to every room.

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Armstrong Flooring wins three 2019 Good Design awards

Floor Covering News

Rigid Core Vantage. Lancaster, Pa.—Armstrong Flooring has received Good Design awards for Rigid Core Vantage, Migrations and Striations BBT, and Alterna engineered tile. Founded in Chicago in 1950, Good Design is organized annually by The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design in cooperation with the European Centre for Architecture, Art, Design and Urban Studies.

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040: Changing Jobs

Life of an Architect

Changing jobs is exciting and terrifying at the same time – particularly if you are making a drastic change wither in the type of work or the size of the firm. Today we are talking about “Changing Jobs” a topic that seems somewhat fitting given that it is the first podcast episode of 2020 and both Andrew and me have changed jobs. Continue reading 040: Changing Jobs at Life of an Architect.

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GSSI will be at World of Concrete 2020 Displaying the StructureScan Mini XT

The A to Z of Building

GSSI, the world’s leading manufacturer of ground penetrating radar (GPR) equipment, will be at World of Concrete held on February 4-7, 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center, in Las Vegas,

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Bathroom bench and stool ideas to enhance tranquility in that room

Trendir Magazine

The bathroom might just be one of the most personal areas of a home, especially if you have a master bath. However, what many tend to forget is that you get to decorate your bathroom any way you would like, particularly if it is spacious. With that being said, having a bench or stool in the bathroom can pretty much be life-changing. It adds a space to sit on but it also adds to your decor.

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RevoTile—Daltile’s answer to installer crisis

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Megan Salzano. Daltile’s RevoTile is a patented, floating floor system of genuine porcelain that can be installed in one day. As the struggle to find qualified tile installers continues to rage throughout the industry, Daltile took to the drawing board to design a tile product it believes will ease the burden—RevoTile.

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3 Ways to Know If Your Potential New Home’s Neighborhood Is Safe

Kitchen and Residential Design

What are the first things you look for when moving into a new neighborhood? Comfort, low noise, amenities, and accessibility are a few of the most common winning features of a nice, stress-free neighborhood. Though those attributes are worth looking for, safety should be the first priority whenever moving to a new place. Being able to walk freely and get a good night’s sleep depends on how safe you feel in your own house, after all.

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Peab Builds Extension of E6 Near Trondheim

The A to Z of Building

Peab has received a contract for the extension and maintenance phase of the new section of highway on E6 between Kvål and Melhus in Norway. The customer is Nye Veier and the contract is worth NOK.

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Beautiful Bathroom Trends To Follow This Year

Trendir Magazine

Though we have covered overall trends for this year, we wanted to bring you focus areas of the home as well. This year, it’s more about having each room feel unique instead of having the entire home feel like one single decorated space. Therefore, it makes sense to find the trends that will be sweeping 2020 by storm, even in the bathroom! Though the bathroom is the main room it rarely gets a reboot.

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Republic Flooring on fast track to market penetration

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Ken Ryan. Rotem Eylor, CEO of Republic Flooring, stands with his new SPC display at the Flooring America convention. Republic Flooring may have just arrived on the SPC/rigid core scene, but its presence is already being felt across the flooring landscape—notably partnerships with the National Floorcovering Alliance (NFA) and CCA Global.

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Floor Covering Education Foundation selects board of directors

Floor Covering News

Dalton—The Floor Covering Education Foundation (FCEF), a newly formed, nonprofit organization dedicated to the recruitment, scholarship and placement of professional floorcovering installers, has announced its board of directors. With representatives from retailers, training organizations, advocacy groups, distributors and manufacturers, the new board members’ collective expertise will strengthen the FCEF and ensure the foundation’s power to overcome the installation crisis that affects the floo

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Carpet: Despite LVT dominance, soft surface sees opportunities

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Ken Ryan. Observers say consumers are willing to pay extra for carpet these days. Shown is Dixie Home Envision 66. For more than a decade hard surface has taken market share from carpet, a trend that shows no signs of abating. But rather than curse their fate, carpet mill executives are looking to parlay LVT’s dominance into market opportunities.

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Armstrong doubles down on Diamond 10

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Reginald Tucker. 1 of 3. Diamond 10 surface coating technology has been expanded across Armstrong’s entire portfolio, including Alterna, Rejuvenations Restore and Vivero LVT. Diamond 10 surface coating technology has been expanded across Armstrong’s entire portfolio, including Alterna, Rejuvenations Restore and Vivero LVT.

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Engineered Floors launches new website

Floor Covering News

Dalton—Engineered Floors has launched a new website that includes all of the company’s brands: Dream Weaver, Pentz, Engineered Floors Hard Surfaces, Dwellings and EF Multifamily. Engineered Floors’ dealers will find the new, aesthetically progressive website is an effective selling tool for the company’s products. All products are easily navigated and include specifications, images and product details.

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Emily Morrow Home unveils 2020 color of the year

Floor Covering News

Dalton—Emily Morrow Finkell, CEO of Emily Morrow Home, is ringing in 2020 with her color of the year: Gesso. This influential color is featured in several Emily Morrow Home and Louis A. Dabbieri hardwoods in addition to being the color of the company’s new display header. Finkell encountered Gesso throughout her travels to Normandy, Paris, and historic sites across the United States.

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Hydropel Waterproof Hardwood Flooring by Bruce wins Good Design award

Floor Covering News

Mountville, Pa.—Hydropel Waterproof Hardwood Flooring from Bruce has been honored with a 2019 Good Design award. This prestigious award emphasizes quality design of the highest form, function and aesthetic. Founded in Chicago in 1950, Good Design remains one of the oldest and most recognized programs for design excellence worldwide. “Innovation and performance are at the core of AHF Products, and we are honored to have Bruce Hydropel recognized, especially since we are just celebrating our compa

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TAJ Flooring welcomes Torie Bonafede

Floor Covering News

Elgin, Ill.—TAJ Flooring has tapped Torie Bonafede as vice president of national accounts. Bonafedebrings over 20 years of proven, successful selling experience to this position. As a flooring industry veteran, Bonafede’s roots in the business began at his family’s flooring and furniture store, Carey’s Furniture Co. He later moved on to J&J Industries in the early ’90s working with them for 18 years.

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Schönox to announce annual Worst Subfloor Contest winners

Floor Covering News

Florence, Ala.—Schönox HPS North America will present the winners of their sixth-annual Worst Subfloor Contest during a special event scheduled to take place during The International Surface Event in Las Vegas later this month. “This was a big year for the Worst Subfloor Contest,” said Britton Watson, senior marketing and communications manager at Schönox HPS North America.

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Voting now open for 24th annual Award of Excellence contest

Floor Covering News

Huntington Station, N.Y.—Voting for FCNews’ Award of Excellence contest is now open. Now in its 24th year, the Award of Excellence has become the premier manufacturer recognition program in the floor covering industry. Why? Because they are voted on by customers whose only motivation is to recognize those who perform flawlessly in every aspect of their business.

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I4F’s 2020 showcase reinforces focus on disruptive technologies

Floor Covering News

Hannover, Germany—I4F, a group of companies providing patents and technologies to the flooring industry, kicks off its global exhibition tour this week at Domotex in Hannover—Hall 12, B100. This is followed by its presence at The International Surface Event (TISE) in Las Vegas, Domotex USA in Atlanta and Domotex asia/ChinaFloor in Shanghai. The company is showcasing all the latest technologies and innovations immediately available via an I4F license from each of its patent clusters.

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Al’s column: How to stick to your goals consistently

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2019: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Jerry Levinson. Some people have never set goals because they don’t believe it will influence their bottom line. They aren’t sure how to use the information. For example, if you were planning a vacation, what’s the first thing you need to know? How are you getting there—by plane or car? Running your business is the same thing.

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Provenza goes high tech with new QR codes

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2019: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Lindsay Gonzalez. Consumers can take a picture of each SKU’s QR code to see what the floor will look like once installed. Provenza Floors is looking to shake up the new year with a host of tools for the flooring industry. To kick off this new era of innovation, Provenza has created and launched QR codes for 300 of its product SKUs.

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Stanton brings high style to hard surface

Floor Covering News

By Megan Salzano. Stanton Decorative Waterproof Flooring features 24 wood-look SPC core planks, including its Woodland colorway collection shown here. Woodbury, N.Y.—Stanton Carpet has a 40-year history as a brand synonymous with high style and value. Its decorative take on high-end, high-quality carpets and rugs has been equally matched by its unparalleled customer service.

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Raskin innovation helps users visualize design possibilities

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2019: Volume 35, Issue 14. FlorLab is available on all of Raskin Industries’ brand websites. It can be difficult for some consumers to visualize what a new floor will look like in a particular room of their home. To make this process easier, Raskin Industries recently launched FlorLab, an advanced room visualizer that is available for use on Raskin Industries’ brand websites— raskinind.com , acrylxusa.com , luminationsfloors.com , floornationusa.com and ceramixusa.com.

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NAFCD names 2020 officers, board members

Floor Covering News

Chicago—The North American Association of Floor Covering Distributors (NAFCD) has selected its board of directors for 2020. The NAFCD board includes senior executives from both distributor and supplier member firms representing all types of flooring materials, related supplies and accessories. “We are pleased to welcome an impressive group of leaders to the 2020 NAFCD board of directors,” said Kevin Gammonley, executive vice president, NAFCD.

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Unilin division Technologies to introduce UniDrop at Domotex Hannover

Floor Covering News

Wielsbeke, Belgium—At the Domotex 2020 show in Hannover, Unilin division Technologies will launch a new fold-down locking profile to the market called UniDrop. According to the company, UniDrop makes installing a floor even more convenient by being one of the first one-piece fold-down systems that can be disassembled by angling-out. UniDrop can create tight seams.

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DuChateau broadens its scope with The Guild

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Megan Salzano. DuChateau’s Lineage line within The Guild collection includes the Maddie hue, a design that blends mid-tone browns with a cool gray undertone. DuChateau is helping specialty flooring retailers tap a new type of home-owner with The Guild collection. The line, designed with the company’s commitment to high style, distinction and elegance in mind, is an engineered, European oak wood flooring finished with a matte UV lacquer, all at an affordab

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Floor Covering News - Untitled Article

Floor Covering News

(Third of three parts). As I outlined in the previous two parts of this series, there is no way you, as a small independent business, can beat Home Depot by playing their advertising game their way. In my last installment, I covered specific strategies to leverage your advantages as a small business when you market yourself. Now, let’s look at strategies to use in the showroom and during the in-home measure.

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Marketing mastery: Use your company’s size to your advantage

Floor Covering News

(Third of three parts). As I outlined in the previous two parts of this series, there is no way you, as a small independent business, can beat Home Depot by playing their advertising game their way. In my last installment, I covered specific strategies to leverage your advantages as a small business when you market yourself. Now, let’s look at strategies to use in the showroom and during the in-home measure.

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Carpet: DW Select by Dream Weaver makes its debut

Floor Covering News

Jan. 6/13, 2020: Volume 35, Issue 14. By Ken Ryan. DW Select is notable for its twist multiplier technology that uses a 3-ply yarn as opposed to the more traditional 2-ply. In its first 10 years Engineered Floors achieved great success in the commodity and middle end of the market. As it enters its second decade, the Dalton-based mill is targeting a higher-end segment under its Dream Weaver residential brand.

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