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National Karastan Month

National Karastan Month

Receive up to $1,000 back on select styles during National Karastan Month. Featuring luxurious wool carpets, nylon carpets, SmartStrand carpeting, and LuxeCraft vinyl plank flooring. Special financing and complimentary consultations are happening now through May 31st. Read on to learn more.

2023's Floor Forecast Is Here And It's Fabulous

2023's Floor Forecast Is Here And It's Fabulous

There’s more for your floors with 2023’s fantabulous flooring finds. Read on for our designer’s picks and hot tips.

Live Worry-Free With High Performance Textiles

Live Worry-Free With High Performance Textiles

Welcome to a new age in textiles with worry-free fabrics and carpeting! Where we’re going you won’t need plastic covers, high-performance textiles are just as beautiful on the inside as they are on the outside. Read on to learn how to put these indoor/outdoor carpets and fabrics to work for you in your home or office. Enjoy!

Stanton Carpet Introduces Pre-Made Area Rugs

Stanton Carpet Introduces Pre-Made Area Rugs

Stanton Carpets, leader in the industry of high-quality carpeting, premieres their latest line of pre-made area rugs. Featuring pre-made, hand-loomed 100% premium wool and wool blend area rugs in a variety of colorways and popular sizes. Exclusive savings happening now.

What's New In Flooring For 2020

What's New In Flooring For 2020

What’s new for flooring in 2020? Carpet makes a comeback with unexpected patterns in stunning colorways, custom area rugs are trending, and bold patterns are the latest in waterproof vinyl plank. Read on for the most recent releases in flooring coming to Knight’s showroom soon!

Saying Good Bye To 2019 With The Posts You Loved The Most

Saying Good Bye To 2019 With The Posts You Loved The Most

As we say good bye to 2019, we’re saying good bye to a decade of design. Join us in our countdown to 2020 with The Ten Posts You Loved The Most. Happy New Year!

Shutters, A Better View

Shutters, A Better View

Today, Plantation Shutters are available with motorization opening a new world of possibilities in window covering operation with classic appeal that stands the test of time.

12 Easy Ways To Keep Your New Year Goals & They All Start With Home

12 Easy Ways To Keep Your New Year Goals &amp; They All Start With Home

Make this the year you incorporate your resolutions with decor solutions. We’ve discovered 12 easy ways to keep you motivated and they all start with 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

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.  

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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.

Entryway Floors

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

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

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!

Hallmark Courtier Premium Vinyl Plank 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.
  

Renew, Refresh, Redecorate With Knight's

One Room ~ Three Views

One Room      ~        Three Views

Our flooring vendors always feature the most inspiring rooms leaving room for the inner decorator in us all to fill in the spaces and imagine the possibilities to create our style from within.