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AFS Group acquires Lewis Floor & Home

Floor Covering News

Lewis is the premier flooring, countertop, cabinet and window treatment dealer for the north shore of Chicago with sales of more than $20 million annually. The latest acquisition to the AFS Group portfolio expands its reach with high-end customers and provides a growth platform for all its business channels in Illinois.

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Flooring retailers pushed to embrace artificial intelligence

Floor Covering News

It’s a quickly evolving field, one that will make us much more productive, and this will require us to adapt.” I’m interested in known, trackable production, impact and results.” With IDC consumers are guided through the flooring selection process by a virtual designer who recommends products based on the customer’s design preferences.

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Tarkett partners with FlorStar Sales

Floor Covering News

Solon, Ohio—Tarkett has entered a distribution partnership with FlorStar Sales, Inc. Effective immediately, FlorStar will represent the company’s resilient product portfolio in the Illinois, Michigan, northern Indiana, Wisconsin, northwest Ohio, Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota markets.

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Kitchen and Residential Design: Finding the best solid wood.

Kitchen and Residential Design

The ShopRTACabinets product is guaranteed to be cost effective and easy to install. Regardless of budget, you will find a product that makes your new kitchen sparkle. These products may seem a steal at the price, but they fall apart and you end up replacing the cabinets sooner than later. Homepath Products. Links I like.

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Retailers of the Year 2023

Floor Covering News

In choosing their top retailer partners, suppliers looked beyond sales volume to other key attributes such as communication skills, trust, company culture and even benevolence as differentiating factors. As we all became more educated on the product category—and the performance of it over time—this decision became clearer than ever. “As

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018: Crafting an Image

Life of an Architect

To jump off our conversation, we discuss the controversy surrounding the Chicago design awards in 2015 where the design submission for the El Centro building, which is a satellite facility of Northeastern Illinois University just up the road, digitally removed the rooftop air handlers in post-production.

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You should say 'Yes' more often | Life of an Architect

Life of an Architect

It’s actually for sale at the time of this writing and can be yours for $4,995,000 – pretty reasonable if you ask me. I am presenting in Illinois at a leadership conference August 1st, and I need to get my material prepared. On Saturday, I spent the entire day looking at the work of Howard van Doren Shaw.