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Make the Kitchen Your New Living Room

by Arimar | Jul 6, 2018 | Blogs

The kitchen is the new living room

They say that the kitchen is the heart of the home. Whether small or large, the kitchen is the hub of the home. Whereas kitchens were once solely for cooking they are now also for living.

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Today, a good sized, well laid out kitchen is vastly important. Newer homes have embraced kitchens as living spaces in mind, designed to be larger, more accommodating and dual functional, both for lifestyle and resale purposes.

While still called kitchens, they are much more than that. They are a family’s living space and house several areas within. Builders, architects, realtors and designers all recognize this. There’s the kitchen area, the designated cooking space. Then, there’s the dining area within the kitchen. In many larger kitchens, a family can all congregate while cooking, working or relaxing. For those who enjoy entertaining often, even homes with formal dining and living rooms find that guests tend to gather around the kitchen. Here are three designer-approved tips to turn your kitchen into a living room.

Make the kitchen multi-purpose

Islands are a place to entertain, eat meals, work and connect with loved ones. And as more families do away with formal dining rooms, more are turning to islands for more of their meals. Islands are also expanding beyond the kitchen, becoming more of an open concept with kitchens extending into the living area. Adding stools is an easy yet effective way to create space for kids to do homework or guests to linger.

Encourage access

As entertaining has become more casual and relaxed, guests not only gather around the kitchen but also feel comfortable enough to help themselves to food and drink in the refrigerator. So, you want to make it easy for people to get in and out of the refrigerator quickly. You may also consider setting up a custom drink station, which can include a wine refrigerator and ice drawer. Easy access to tools and equipment for you, as chef and entertainer, are also important to keep in mind.

Fuse style and substance

For décor purposes, comfortable furniture, inviting fabrics and warm lighting create an inviting space where people will want to spend time. Go neutral for bigger items like paint, tile and countertop colors, and add bursts of color via accessories and artful displays. Hardwood flooring is an ideal choice for a timeless look and functionality. (Read more about Kitchens with Hardwood Floors for inspiration here.)

Decorating with White

by Arimar | Jun 18, 2018 | Blogs

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Three Pro Tips For Styling White Rooms

Embrace white year-round to get a simple, classy, and functional look for any space. Discover creative ways to use this neutral.

Add a bit of color.

Light and airy, white works well in a variety of color schemes and design styles. While the style is about keeping the look simple and clean, adding a few pops of color can give a white room a stunning effect. White creates a blank canvas inviting a host of accent colors—from pastel blues and greens, to vibrant reds and oranges. Pro Tip: This neutral hue also creates a solid base, which works well to create balance and contrast. Just a little bit of one bright color makes a big impact

Go with the flow.

A small, narrow space always looks bigger and more open when painted white. Keeping a room neutral and white can make a smaller space feel large, make a dark room feel bright, and make any room feel open and airy — even without a lot of windows. Pro Tip: You can use white to unify disjointed spaces. Shades of white on the walls and underfoot set up continuity from one room to another.

Focus on texture.

Make an all-white color scheme feel welcoming by adding texture. To add warmth, try distressed finishes and layers of natural textures. Think rugs and throw blankets with thick, rough or interesting textures. Pro Tip: In a rustic-themed kitchen, white-washed wood dining table and chairs, modern white light fixtures and white cabinets and sand-toned hardwood flooring all may mingle nicely.

Lastly, don’t overlook what lies beneath. The brilliant sheen of light-colored floors is unmatched. While dark wood underfoot in an otherwise white space all the way to the ceiling keeps the eye moving up.

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Sustainable Wood Flooring

by Arimar | Jun 11, 2018 | Blogs

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Why Sustainability Matters When It Comes To Flooring

Today, home buyers care about the type of floors they purchase. As people become more environmentally and socially conscious, demand for green building practices rises. This means that more homeowners are seeking sustainable flooring for their homes, in particular wood.

What makes a floor sustainable? Aside from the materials themselves, sustainability encompasses the manufacturing process, use of natural resources and the impact of the supply chain on the environment. It also means choosing flooring that is high quality and built to last.

Hardwood floors have a classic, timeless appeal that make then elegant choice for those value environmentally friendly products. In fact, wood is one of the most earth-friendly and renewable materials you can choose. Not only are fewer materials used in creating wood floors, but they also use fewer raw materials, energy and natural resources to produce.

At Arimar, we believe in environmental and corporate social responsibility. Therefore, our manufacturing processes uses the entire tree from root to crown, leaving no waste behind. Therefore, you can rest assured that our hardwood floors are made with sustainable practices. In practicing sustainable forestry our forests will be viable for generations to come.

Our Floor Art Wide Plank Collection offers style and beauty and is made out of Heveas or Rubber tree. Hevea is well known for its high density, hardness, and physical and mechanical strength, with similar characteristics to Oak. An added benefit is the Rubberwood’s high level of dimensional stability, allowing it to withstand external pressures such as temperature, moisture and air. This makes it an exceptionally excellent choice for homes in warmer, more humid climates.

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What sets our Collection of Floor Art apart from the competition

by Arimar | Jun 5, 2018 | Blogs

What sets our Collection of Floor Art apart from the competition and a plus to offer it to your customers:

Treatment, finish, construction. Length of the boards, exclusivity.

90% of the new floors added to the collection goes through a process of smoking, fuming brushing, hand scraping plus the use of the reactive stain done by hand. What this does it adds life to the floor and make it easy to maintain & repair. The finish is Bona Naturale.

85% of the boards on the 9 ½ collection are 96” long, 85% on the 7 ½” are 84” long and 78% on the 6 ½ collection are 72” long.

With our collection you would be able to offer your customer a more exclusive floor.

What is Smoking & Fuming:

This technique exposes the wood to small amounts of ammonia in a controlled environment. The ammonia reacts with the natural tannins; the longer the wood is exposed, the darker it becomes.

Fuming describes the initial surface treatment which creates a rich colour range from warm chocolate to the elegance of almost-black. Smoking takes the process one step further by ingraining the colour deep into the wood itself.

Semi-fumed involves the process of exposing only the surface of the wood to ammonia in variable quantities to achieve a lighter result of amber hues than the process of smoking or fuming.

European Oak is the optimum choice for fuming and smoking because its high tannin content creates a palette of rich wood tones. As the intensity of the reaction depends on the tannin content in the wood, each board reacts slightly differently to create a result that marries blended floor colour with unique and distinctive variations.

What is Reactive Technologies:

Our proprietary reactive technologies encompass the art of creating and enhancing colour from within the wood itself. The wood is treated with metal salts, which react with the natural tannins and cellulose to replicate the oxidization and maturing process of naturally aged wood. The result is a unique, in-grained ‘aged’ timber render that cannot be duplicated with traditional staining methods. The color penetrates into the wear layer making it very easy to repair scratches.

Double reactive technologies take aged wood rendering to the next level. As with reactive technologies the wood is treated with metal salts to create a unique aged look, the process is then repeated to achieve a greater intensity of colour and further enhance the plank’s individual characteristics.

Bona Naturale

The super matte sheen of the Bona finish creates an attractive, sleek oiled wood effect.

This surface finish was originally created for the hospitality industry; its flexibility resists cracks and chips and is ideal for high usage areas such as restaurants. The finish also contains an anti-slip agent and is longer lasting than harder and thicker polyurethanes. Our finish is a Bona Naturale, UV Cured Urethane system. It is water based.

Construction of the floor

Hevea Brasiliensis is a plantation hardwood timber that shares the same high density and strength as White Oak which is native to the US. It is therefore an excellent, environmentally sound substitute for Oak and other slow growing hardwood species.

We use Hevea Brasiliensis to create the core of our flooring because it provides greater dimensional stability and can withstand external pressure (such as temperature, moisture and air) to change. This ensures that the all-important core in our multi-layer engineered floors is stronger and more reliable than other species which are found in cheaper products.

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