Lee Wallender is a home improvement writer of nearly 20 years and specializes in home remodeling, repair and maintenance. Sami Allen is the managing editor at Forbes Home, with over seven years of ...

In my years as a flooring installer, I learned the job is more complicated than I originally expected. So if you’re going to lay your own flooring — even if it’s click-together laminate or luxury ...

Yes, you can, and we did that very thing on this tile floor just a couple of years ago. But because this house is on a wood subfloor, we had to do a little work to prepare the surface, and that ...

Selecting the right tile type may be easy, but installing requires skilled personnel. Tiles come textured or smooth. Materials include ceramic, glass, and quarried rock such as slate, granite, or ...

FOR a quality kitchen or bathroom floor that’s attractive, hard-wearing and will last for years, nothing beats ceramic tiles. FOR a quality kitchen or bathroom floor that’s attractive, hard-wearing ...

Vinyl sheet flooring, long popular for kitchens and other areas where easy-to-maintain floor surfaces are needed, occupies a sort of no-man`s land with do-it-yourselfers. Some hesitate to install it ...

Getting ready to lay a new laminate floor can be intimidating – after all, it’s a big and pretty fiddly job. All the boards need to fit together perfectly, which means the task can start to look like ...