Just when you think the elder statesman of the floor covering industry couldn’t possibly have any more tricks up its rough-hewn, finely grained sleeve, new advances in manufacturing, finishes and more bring the spotlight back around to hardwood flooring.
Armstrong Commercial Flooring’s recent Design Council brought together a designer, architect, flooring contractor and healthcare facility administrator to explore emerging trends and confer on the overlapping, and sometimes convergent needs of the different disciplines involved in the design, cost, install and maintenance of high-traffic commercial flooring applications.
Natalie Jones from NeoCon 2012 discusses the positive feedback she is hearing from designers visiting the showroom in terms of new and bigger projects both in renovations, new construction and how the difficult economy has changed the design process.
