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Step Up Your Home Style with These 2024 Flooring Trends

January 22, 2024 | 2024 Flooring Trends, Flooring, Flooring Guide

Your floors are a work of art, key pieces of your home that set the tone of your decor and inform your style. Keeping up with, or even trying out, some of the latest styles is an important way to make sure your floors stay that way. Recent advancements in manufacturing and technology have contributed to new trends over the last ten years and today homeowners have the opportunity to experiment with more varieties of floors than ever before, including engineered hardwood and revolutionized vinyl flooring. 

The Ultimate Guide to Slip-Resistant Flooring

January 8, 2024 | Carpet, Flooring Guide, Slip-Resistant Flooring, Tile, Vinyl Flooring

At A Step Above Flooring, we love winter. Cheerful holidays, time spent with family, roaring fires, and snowy wonderlands—the winter season is unlike any other time of year.

However, with the cold weather comes snow, sleet, and ice. When ice and snow stick to our shoes, they melt into water in the warmth of our homes. This can lead to a higher risk of slips and falls.