At its recent convention in Ft. Laurderdale, Fla., Starnet Worldwide Commercial Flooring Partnership honored its members, vendors and the designers they work with at its 14th annual Design Awards celebration.
Being the biggest and best, no matter the profession or discipline, takes a great deal of hard work and perseverance. But it also means never sitting on one’s laurels.
The National Wood Flooring Association’s (NWFA) Wood Flooring Expo continues to grow. The event in Nashville, Tenn., jumped in attendance by 30%, to more than 3,000 show-goers, not to mention over 50 first-time exhibitors.
Selecting the right flooring for a space not only adds to its look, but experience and overall feel. That is one of the main points designers said when Floor Trends polled them to find out just what they’re looking for when designing for commercial spaces.
Unlike the residential market, which is essentially single family housing and most often dealing with remodels, the commercial sector is a vast sea of segments, ranging anywhere from corporate offices to healthcare to education to hospitality to retail to government/military and technically anything else not handled by the typical neighborhood retailer.
With the popularity of large-format tile continuing to grow comes the necessity of providing an adequate supply of thin-bed or medium-bed mortar to properly support and bond the tile. The question is, which trowel notch works best?
Several hundred flooring industry professionals from the Pacific Northwest made their way to the Lynnwood Convention Center in Lynnwood, Wash., for The Market tradeshow sponsored by Flooring Association Northwest (FAN), formerly the Washington State Floor Covering Association.