Delight Your Guests - and Yourself - This Holiday Season with Brilliant Refinished Hardwood Floors!
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HANKSGIVING, CHRISTMAS, and New Year’s holiday events are just a few short weeks away, and there’s plenty to do with seasonal decorating, holiday meal planning, and don’t forget the “joys” of cleaning the entire house to get ready for friends and relatives. And sadly, no amount of cleaning and polishing will remove those unsightly dents, well-worn scratches, and the UV damage to your home’s once beautiful hardwood f loors. You’ve tried everything to restore their original luster, but nothing has worked, so you just keep covering your floors with runners and throw rugs, hoping that nobody will notice. But as you welcome guests this holiday season, one of the first thing they are going to see as they come in the door are your home’s hardwood floors. There’s one surefire way to restore your hardwood floors to their original showcase quality appearance: Refinish them. European Fine Hardwood Floors of Knox ville uses the latest technolog y available from Bona, the most respected name in the hardwood f loor refinishing industry worldwide, to provide homeowners
with a dust-less refinishing experience. Founder and owner of European Fine Hardwood Floors, Valera Tomescu, learned his craft from his grandfather in Europe over several decades. He has now combined those traditional skills with today’s vacuum technology from Bona, so that dust from sanding is safely removed out-of-doors using a high-efficiency vacuum system with HEPA filters. These vacuums, placed outside your
home, are connected to Valera’s refinishing equipment using high-volume vacuum hoses. The result? A dust-less experience. With well-learned craftsmanship and state-of-the-art vacuum systems, European Fine Hardwood Floors is truly a cut above your typical hardwood flooring installer or refinisher. As the recipients of the highly coveted Bona Certified Craftsman Award, an honor received by very few hardwood f looring refinishing contractors, European Fine Hardwood Floors can assure you that all of the work they perform will adhere to the highest quality standards in the industry. Why not return your home’s hardwood flooring to its original showcase quality appearance just in time for the holidays? Call Valera at European Fine Hardwood Floors today.
European Fine Hardwood Floors 865.640.3680 www.knoxvillehardwoodrefinishing.com
Make Room for Baby B Y C A R R I E M C C O N K E Y, W W W. C A R R I E M C C O N K E Y. C O M
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HE ARRIVAL of a new baby brings fun, adventure, and LOTS of clothing and supplies. Parents-to-be can often be overwhelmed by the generosity of loving family and friends who bear gifts that will benefit their bundle of joy well into toddlerhood and beyond. The secret to making sure you don’t overlook a single adorable outfit, colorful toy, or much-needed bib and burp cloth? Good closet storage. Closet Conversion Closets notoriously contain underutilized space, and this can be an even greater problem when storing itty-bitty baby things. Instead of the traditional one to two hanging rods found in an adult closet, maximize your space by adding three stacked rods to hold wee-sized outfits. (They can often be adjusted back to two later as Junior grows.) Bins are a mommy and daddy’s best friend to hold toys and other odd-sized essentials; purchase decorative fabric options or plastic ones with lids, and install vertical shelves for accessible and convenient storage. T-Shirts and Onesies and Hats, Oh My! Tiny socks, ruffled bloomers... how to store them all? For baby’s hanging clothing, invest in uniform children’s hangers for neatness and ease, and purchase a set of garment size divider closet rings to keep current and future 12
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clothing sizes in view. If an item cannot be hung easily, try bin or drawer storage the Marie Kondo way, rolling the tiny items sushi-style and storing vertically so that the top of each bundle is in view. Evaluate an item of clothing as baby grows: Is it an heirloom? Would it be suitable for a future brother or sister? If the answer is yes, carefully pack and store in a different area of the house. If not, cherish the memories and donate. One of a Kind Customize your little one’s closet to suit them (and you). If the closet opening is wide enough, install drawers. (Include a shallow drawer with organizers to hold smaller or flat items.) Hang shelves and rods high to allow for stroller and large item storage underneath, and try LED light-up closet rods to help guide you while baby is sleeping. Use whimsical hardware or wallpaper the back wall to create a fun play environment. The Perfect Gift Give the gift of long lasting organization! What better way to show the parents-to-be in your life some love and support than with the fabulous gift of a closet makeover for their new little bundle of joy? Just imagine how much more enjoyable the expectant mom’s “nesting phase” will be with a nice, neatly organized closet space where there is a place
for everything and everything in its place! Let Closets by McKenry help you cherish each day without letting precious items go astray! Call today for inspired closet storage solutions fit for your little king or queen.
Closets by McKenry
201 Center Park Drive, #1070 Knoxville, TN 37922 865.249.6382 2019 Closets Designer of the Year – Interior Design Society