Flooring Alternatives

With personalized care and high quality sustainable options, our technical and design experience brings you floors that are beautiful, durable, and environmentally friendly. Visit our showroom at 2901 San Pablo Avenue in Berkeley, California to consult with our dedicated staff about your next project. Mineral and cork composite core on new floating floor series provices stable waterproof cork flooring. Now in Wood graphics (made with recycled PET plastic) and Cork graphics using conventional cork veneers.

Bamboo has been used as a self-renewing building material for thousands of years. A member of the grass family, bamboo provides the natural beauty and feel of a wood floor yet produces hardwood fiber much more quickly than trees. In fact, bamboos are some of the fastest growing plants in the world. On an established plant, bamboo poles mature in about five years. These poles are then removed to allow the rest of the plant to continue to grow. Bamboo benefits from its harvest as the plant's energy then gets redirected to grow new replacement shoots as well as to the other poles left behind.

Sustainable wood flooring may seem like an oxymoron: How can using wood for flooring protect forests or be environmentally sound? Common-market hardwoods may be harvested by clear-cutting areas of forest at a much faster rate than they can replenish. However, there is such a thing as "good wood". We source tropical and some domestic species that are certified to have been harvested using responsible forestry practices, or have been recycled, reclaimed or plantation grown. Our certified suppliers must show that their wood comes from well-managed forests, adhere to strict guidelines regarding harvesting, respect the rights of indigenous people, and promote biological diversity and economic health in the region.