Showing posts with label tile flooring. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tile flooring. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

A Step In The Right Direction


It is often said that your home represents your frame of mind and body. A cluttered mess and disorganized surroundings can represent chaos within. At the same time, a clean and well-organized home can represent more balance, clearer thoughts and a healthier lifestyle.

As you walk through your home, look around at the things you would like to change. Perhaps you’d like to replace your dark, outdated cabinets in the kitchen, or brighten up the hall bathroom for guest. Maybe you’d love to get the garage organized, so you’d finally feel inspired to finish all the small projects that you’ve started. Perhaps you want to have a place where you can entertain guest and celebrate with family, like a back porch, or a deck with a huge BBQ pit and hammock. Very much like standing in front of a mirror and pointing out little things you’d like to change about yourself, all of these home improvements are attainable.

Great, so we have this bucket list of what we’d love to improve around our house. Now what? Well, now we work towards changing what is most important to each of us. Everyone is different. Finally installing hardwood flooring in the living room, may be a priority for one person, while laying new tile in the master bath may be a priority for someone else. The point is, you don’t have to overwhelm yourself, because once you’ve decided what you want to change, Stone Wood Design Center can help you with the rest.

When you walk through our doors, you’ll be greeted by the smiles of our ‘degreed’ Interior Designers. The best part is, that it’s a complimentary service that Stone Wood Design Center offers to all their customers. Do you know what that means? Are you sitting down? It means that you get to work with a real Interior Designer on your project. It’s kind of like deciding you want to lose a few pounds, so you head to the gym, to tackle the treadmill alone. Instead, as you walk through the doors, you are given the opportunity to work with a certified trainer, as a complimentary service offered by the gym. You have to admit, that’s pretty cool.

Our Interior Designers will help walk you through your entire project, which comes in handy when deciding on colors, material and how much product to buy. If you decide to tackle the project yourself, we even have a full time DIY guru, who is available to give you step-by-step instructions. This is just another complimentary service that Stone Wood Design offers.

Before you know it, your home will begin to brighten and look more alive. You’ll feel excited about the changes you’ve made and the encouraging words from friends and family. You might even look back and remember a time when you seriously thought about moving, because you had such a strong urge for change. Yet, with a little creative thought and far less stress, you realize you have built a new home for yourself, by just making some changes here and there, with the help of Stone Wood Design Center.

Somewhere down the road in life, you might even hear it again, how your home represents your frame of mind and body. You’ll smile, realizing that you’re feeling less stress, you have a healthier lifestyle and you’re happier than you’ve been in a long time. Could Stone Wood Design Center really be attributed to such positive changes, inside and outside of your home? We like to think so. 

Monday, April 16, 2012

SWDC Top Sellers: Mosaico+ Perle Tile

At Stone Wood Design Center, it’s our mission to bring Portland tile customers the finest tile products from around the world. That’s why we’re so pleased to tell you about our latest offering, Mosaico+ tile from Italy. Mosaico’s Perle line of jaw-dropping iridescent tile is the subject of this edition of SWDC Top Sellers.

Like proud parents, we love all our tile products equally, but this one really is something special. The base color of the tile is complemented and multiplied by the extraordinary, multicolored iridescent finish, whose colors shift and shimmer with each stray shaft of light they catch.

Because the individual plates that comprise the mosaic are smaller than average — just 15x15mm — they conform to curved surfaces like wet silk, and the tiny tiles also lend a refined, luxurious air to the installation that will turn your guests iridescent green with envy!

We’re proud to bring Portland Mosaico tile flooring all the way from Italy — after, all, when it comes to refined and elegant style, Italian design is hard to beat. It’s no exaggeration to say that what Prada is to couture, or Lamborghini is to autos, Mosaico is to tile.

Mosaico tile flooring from Stone Wood Design Center will surely have your guests green with envy!

Frankly, photos can’t do justice to this shimmering and exotic tile flooring product — you simply must see it in person. Stop by one of our three conveniently-located Portland tile showrooms to see this must-have product with your own eyes!

Monday, January 9, 2012

Floor-to-Ceiling Tile: A Trend That Will Last?

Tile has been used as a functional and stylish building material for hundreds of years. From porcelain tile flooring to glass mosaics, tile is one of the most popular building and interior design materials available. It's easy to see why: tile flooring, counter tops, and back-splashes marry style and usability in a versatile, long-lasting way. They are also pretty easy to clean - take a damp sponge to most any tiling and it wipes clean.

This combination of style, function, durability, and ease of maintenance has led to a hot new design trend for today's modern kitchens: floor-to-ceiling tile. Used by such designers as Christina Murphy and Lauren Liess and featured in such design mags as Elle Decor and House Beautiful, floor-to-ceiling tile projects are all the rage recently. With cabinets, cupboards, and appliances taking up so much room in most kitchens, little wall space is left for decoration. Floor-to-ceiling tiling adds a dramatic focal point in a room that is often overlooked when it comes to design.

There are some drawbacks, of course. Like tile flooring or counter tops, a floor-to-ceiling tile project is a major investment. Tile is one of the longest-lasting building and design materials you can use, so if you're considering a floor-to-ceiling project you will want to make sure you absolutely love the look. You will want to make sure you have the budget for it, too - even the most affordable tile can start to add up when you cover large areas such as walls.

What do you think of floor-to-ceiling tile in the kitchen? Would you ever consider such a project? Where else would you think to use this design technique? Leave us your answers in the comments section below!

Image courtesy of House Beautiful Magazine

Monday, December 12, 2011

Don't Take Our Word For It...

Fact: We love our customers. Whether you're looking for hardwood flooring, natural tile flooring, exterior decking, cabinets, or any of our other high-quality products, we're excited to help you find just the right product for your home improvement needs. And not to toot our own horn, but that high level of customer appreciation doesn't go unnoticed. We often get great feedback from our customers, and today we'd like to share some of their kind words with you (as well as their beautiful finished project photos!). Enjoy!

hardwood flooring

"I wanted to send you some photographic evidence of how your great service paid off for the customer. We really enjoyed our experience and the advice you and the entire Stone Wood Outlet team provided in making our "do-it-ourselves" project a complete success. We will recommend Stone Wood Outlet to all our friends." - Mike

tile flooring

"These are some pictures of one of the apartments I have refinished. The tile on the floor and countertop and the laminate is from your store. The quality and prices of your materials are great. Everybody that has seen the apartments have liked them a lot. I have enjoyed working with you, since you always have taken the time to explain options and how to best use the materials. The persons at your other outlet have also been helpful and knowledgable about tile and flooring. I can easily recommend your store to my other associates and friends." - Bruce

tile countertops

"We had counters put in last April that we purchased from you. We love them and had a great experience start to finish with you. Thanks again! We recommend you to friends!" — Mo and David

Visit one of our three Portland-area locations to learn more about our great flooring, tile, and cabinet products, or give us a call at 503-222-9663.

Friday, December 9, 2011

The Case for Natural Tile Flooring

We recently came across this great video on YouTube regarding the difference between vinyl flooring and natural tile flooring. The host, Donnie, makes many good points about natural tile flooring - it can be cold, it can be uncomfortable to walk on, and it's harder to replace if stained or chipped. However, we feel like Donnie leaves out many important features of natural tile flooring in this video. They are:

Natural tile flooring looks more ... natural.
That isn't to say that vinyl or laminate flooring is unattractive. Quite the opposite. We carry many varieties of laminate flooring and are proud to offer them. And while laminate and vinyl are great, affordable alternatives to natural stone, it's pretty obvious they aren't the real deal. Natural stone has a look and feel that is hard to imitate, and even the most state-of-the-art material can't compare.

Natural tile flooring lasts longer.
Natural tile is one of the longest-lasting flooring materials you can use. Tile and stone has traditionally been used for outdoor building projects because of its durability and ability to stand up to the elements. Today, designers and builders have realized the potential of natural stone and tile as a long-lasting flooring material inside the home as well.

Natural tile flooring is fancier.
Again, vinyl or laminate flooring is a great alternative to natural tile or stone, but let's face it - it isn't as upscale. Natural glass, tile, or stone flooring is a very classy choice for a bathroom, kitchen, foyer, or any other part of your home. As mentioned above, the beauty of a natural flooring material is hard to match, and as much as vinyl or laminate flooring tries, neither really come close to natural tile in terms of pure class.

Visit one of our three Portland-area locations to learn more about natural tile flooring, or give us a call at 503-222-9663.

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Fall is in the air...

As the days get shorter and the temperature goes from beautiful to brisk at sunset-why not get started on one of the home improvement projects that you have been putting off? Gone are the days of fighting the heat and trying to stay cool any time you exert energy. What better time to extend your living space with a beautiful, exotic wood deck. Maybe your flooring is outdated- wouldn't it be nice to head into the holiday season with a beautiful new hardwood or tile floor? Come in to Stonewood Outlet and see the great selection of high quality, low cost products to make your home a showplace. We have a great variety for any size space. What are you waiting for?

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Discount Tile Flooring from $0.49/SF

Are you serious? $0.49/SF! StoneWood Outlet just bought 200,000 SF of tile flooring from the now defunct "The Tile Source Store" - a major distributor of ceramic and porcelain tile.

We're blowing it out!!! Come on down to either the Yeon or 82nd Street location and check out the goods. 503.222.9663

Here's a few shots of the warehouse before we started moving the 10+ truckloads of specialty Italian, Spanish and Mexican tile back to our warehouses.






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