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4 Pro Tips for Choosing the Best Flooring

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Renovating Your Flooring? Follow These 4 Tips When new home renovators get excited about their first rehabs, they tend to plan updates to the kitchen, bathroom, and paint colors. These are all great places to modernize an older house or fixer upper—but before you set your budget and make your final plans, walk through the house and look down. What state are the floors in? Don’t make the mistake of assuming that the current original floors are good enough, or that you can get away with installing some cheap carpet. Most potential buyers are looking for a home they’ll want to live in for decades, not a rental with hardy carpet. Increase the value of your home and impress buyers by putting some thought into the type of flooring you will install or restore as part of your rehab. These Rules of Renovation approved tips will help you pick the best flooring while staying on budget. 1. Restore Original Hardwood Flooring Before throwing down some carpet or tearing up the floor, ...