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Meet The Experts Open House April 30th
This year's Meet the Experts Open House marks our
25-year anniversary!
As you can imagine, we're very excited for this year's event and thank you for checking in here.
Our "Experts" are coming together in our showroom with the newest product lines that you love the most. . . Vinyl Planking. . . Window Coverings. . . Carpeting. . . Tile. . . Hardwood Floors
What makes our event a stand-out? Our MEET THE EXPERTS event is a personalized home show where you meet one-on-one with Factory Reps, Installers and Industry Pros to learn more about the product's quality and application for your home.
April 16th - This just in! You'll want to scroll down to see all the offerings for our Raffle Drawing.
MEET OUR "EXPERT"
TOM GARNER, TUFTEX CARPETS OF CALIFORNIA
Enter the event raffle to win
a beautiful area rug
(it's the rug on the far right)
Tom Garner began his career in flooring in 1977 as a carpet installer in Lansing, Michigan. In 1983 he relocated to Southern California where he installed carpet at first, but then quickly moved into retail carpet sales. After eleven years of retail sales and management, Tom switched to working for a carpet mill and began his 22-year career with Tuftex.
We're so happy that Tom will be our "Expert" for all your carpeting needs!
Click here to see more on Tuftex Carpets
Meet our "Expert" Toni Huggins of Hunter Douglas
See the magic of PowerView Motorization
One raffle prize winner will walk away with the magic
of the PowerView Hub!
Toni Huggins has been a player on the Hunter Douglas Sales team for a little over ten years and her energy is contagious! She absolutely enjoys working alongside her dealer partners (namely Knight's) and loves her 'dream territory'. Her expertise in Hunter Douglas Window Fashions is a definite Must Have for our event. Toni is very excited to meet with you, share design ideas, and talk about "putting a motor on it" with the new PowerView app.
Click here to see more on Hunter Douglas Window Fashions
when it comes to tile...
see what emser tile has in store
for your floor and more
We had so much at last year's event, we're coming back to do it again! Of course, we're bringing along pizza stones for the raffle and great savings on the above featured products. Very excited to be a part of Knight's 25-year anniversary celebration!
Click here to see more on Emser Tile
Meet our expert
ryan burns of CORETEC VINYL
IT'S ALL ABOUT THE CORE
We've fallen in love with vinyl all over again, and you will too. Our Expert Ryan Burns will walk us through the amazing properties of vinyl planking. The Core in COREtec is what makes this a truly unique floor with cork constructed in the underlayment. Did we say "cork"? Yes, we did and Ryan will be bringing along some local corkage for our raffle drawing.
Click here for more on COREtec Vinyl Planking
MEET OUR EXPERT SCOTT ASHMAN
design your home to fit your lifestyle
with hardwood or Laminate flooring
Are you wondering which wood will work for your home or office? Scott Ashman's expertise in wood and laminate flooring is just the Expert advice we need to answer this question and more.
Hardwood or Laminate? Custom Finishes? Pattern layout? Hardiness? We came up with a few questions for Scott, now the question is: What’s yours???
We have three outstanding product lines being featured for our event: Mission Collection Hardwoods,
All American Laminates and Homerwood Hardwoods.
Did someone say prizes?
What would a party be without goody bags? Along with our Experts we've all been very busy bringing together some fabulous prizes for our raffle drawing and filling up the goody bags for all attendees.
This year's event is coming together with a ba-bang for our 25-year anniversary. Can't wait to see everyone.
“Had fun! Some great ideas in decorating.
You guys went above and beyond!
Knight’s has been our go-to for years and we love this show every year.”
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Holidays in the Well Lived Home
The Well-Lived Home Entryways
In my decorating travels over the years there are so many things I've learned from our clients. The ins and the outs of providing practical solutions for family living, all the while maintaining a well-appointed design. An interesting challenge that can and will become one for us in "The Well-Lived Home".
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The Entryway is the first impression...
CoretecPlus Premium Vinyl Plank in Mission Oak
For those who are fortunate enough to have a mud-room and entry from the garage, the landing area for the clutter of a busy day is easy to hide. For the rest of us the landing area must become a feature in the design. The console table is an intricate piece to this theory and becomes the catch-all for keys, homework, shoes and more so choose well. Keeping the top of the console decorated will distract from the mess hidden within and detour family members from cluttering the top. Give them a flat surface within arm's reach and it'll easily be filled with the findings of the day.
It's all about the drawers... Working closely with clients we've discovered dressers and sideboards make wonderful entryway tables.
The big and the small of it.
Living large, if you have the space we say go for it! As shown here in this entry hall a very family-oriented space with enough drawers for hiding you'll have to assign a row for each member of the household, pets too.
When working with smaller spaces that don't offer an entryway, create one by placing the console table close to the door and incorporating into the living area. Designate the flow with an area rug. This small space is very charming and will easily adapt to any design theme.
The consoles are picked and have been placed, but what about the floors?
Our Favorite Entryway Floors for our Well-Lived Home are worry-free selections that can a take a beating and hold their beauty.
When you want to carry real wood floors throughout your home a stunning compliment for the entryway is to create an area rug with tile. Capture the tones of your decor and protect your wood flooring from the in and out traffic through the entryway. Do you have an open floor plan with a view to the kitchen? Replicating the tile from the kitchen to the entry gives beautiful balance to your open spaces.
Armstrong's Rustics Premium Laminate Flooring
You love the look of wood floors without the worry of higher traffic areas. The choice is laminate flooring, but which one? Your first consideration in making the right selection is the floor's rating. Is the floor rated for commercial use? This is a great guideline to go by. Commercially-rated floors are optimum in performance for your home's entryway. Our pick is Armstrong's Rustics Premium Laminate offering a 50-year residential warranty and a 10-year commercial warranty.
DalTile Collections
A cohesive spirit is happiest when the outdoor flooring carries through to the interior. Curb-appeal to our first impression entryway design is accomplished with tile.
We interrupt this Blog to update our post with the latest in bullet-proof floors!
Vinyl Planking
Here we are in 2018 and our Vinyl Planking is not what it use to be. The innovation of Vinyl Plank is ever-changing, ever-evolving and now is 100% waterproof! Offered in several wood-look styles that actually look more like a wood floor than vinyl. Easy-care, and worry-free this waterproof vinyl plank floor has taken over our sales of all our wood-look products combined.
Photo Courtesy: Hallmark Floors - Courtier Premium Vinyl Plank
For our carpet lovers let us lay on the hospitality. Hospitality in this case refers to the type of carpet. Milled in a collection of inspiring colors and details just for public places and if it works in the hotel lobby it certainly will work for our entryway design. We're featuring:
Masland's Contract Carpeting. Combine with selections of Mohawk's SmartStrand Forever Clean carpets and we're covering the adjoining rooms too with worry-free softness underfoot.
We've come full circle and have decided it's time to present some area rug offerings. Presentation is everything after all and we do love our Jaunty Area Rug collections.
Thank you for joining us in our "Well Lived Home". We'll be following up with a sequel soon. The floors we've featured are of products that we showcase and if you'd like to see the sampling in your own home, please give us a call. We also provide interior design services to assist you in all phases of your entryway project.