If you are like me, you have probably never heard of engineered hardwood flooring until it was time for your first floor upgrade. Well, this is a great alternative to either real hardwood floors, which is really expensive and requires a team of specialists to install, or vinyl plank flooring, which is inexpensive and easy to install but quite frankly looks like the melamine-infused paper on top, wood chip composite on bottom that it is. Engineered hardwood flooring, on the other hand, is real wood. Read the rest of this entry »