In addition to being a major investment, flooring accounts for significant visual square footage in the home. Understandably, homeowners feel nervous before making their final residential flooring selections. So the right choices matter when it comes to long-term satisfaction with your flooring’s style and integrity.
And, of course, you also want to ensure that the flooring you choose can withstand daily wear and tear, your household’s lifestyle, and is aligned with your preferred level of maintenance requirements. That’s why Creative Floors offers low-pressure, high-guidance in-home, personalized flooring advice.
In-Home Flooring Consultations Provide Clarity & Confidence
While we always recommend visiting local flooring showrooms to get a feel for the sales representatives’ knowledge, company culture, and product availability, the greatest level of clarity and confidence about your future flooring selections happens during your in-home flooring consultation.
We believe selecting flooring options in your home is the most realistic way to know what’s best for you, which is why we consider ourselves a local flooring store with in-home service.
What Can I Expect During My In-Home Flooring Consultation?
In-home flooring consultations are special because they bring the flooring pros right into your home. Of course, part of the process will involve asking a list of questions to narrow down what type(s) of flooring are right for your home.
However, during our visit, we also:
- Bring all of our flooring samples with us so you can see them in your space and get a better feel for how they look against existing fixtures/features and with your home’s lighting (which may be quite different from the lighting in the showroom).
- Get a better feel for your home’s layout, including transitions between rooms, indoor-outdoor area transitions, and so on.
- Measure for precision (including all of the spaces you might not think about during a visit to a showroom, like that step down into the sunken living room or the irregularly-shaped nook in the kitchen or living room, etc.)
- Think outside the box when it comes to areas or locations where you might add accents or pattern variations that you wouldn’t have considered otherwise.
- Take note of extra details pertaining to your lifestyle that may not have come up when we met you in the showroom, but are important for informing the best flooring choices for your household in the short- and long-term.
After more than 25 years of providing high-end flooring services to Orlando-area homeowners in Casselberry, Winter Park, and Longwood, Creative Floors has never heard a single client say they regretted scheduling a flooring appointment in their home.
3 Reasons to Celebrate In-Home Flooring Selection Appointments
Here are three reasons our clients are so grateful they went ahead and scheduled appointments with our team to make selections in their home.
1. The Ultimate In A Personalized Flooring Selection Experience
We can discuss your house with you in our showroom all day long, and we’re also happy to review pictures on your phone or tablet. However, nothing looks exactly like your house, other than your actual house. When we get the chance to walk through your home, or the areas where you plan to replace the flooring, we get the true visual experience.
Once we’ve been inside your home, we understand more about:
- How the home is oriented which affects how lighting alters flooring surfaces or colors throughout the day.
- The balance of natural daylighting and artificial light, including the types of fixtures.
- Which rooms see the most daily action, and which are used less often.
- How your pets move through the home, or which areas they are allowed in and which they’re restricted from.
- The general household flow.
- Any areas in the home that require special measurements for better accuracy (something that doesn’t always show up accurately on floor plans).
- And so on.
Finally, our decades of interior design experience mean our customers also benefit from interior design expertise, especially helpful if you’re planning an addition or remodel.
Most of all, spending time with you (your family and pets) gives us a better insight into which products will serve you best, which may differ from what may have come up (or not come up) in the showroom. For example, you may have automatically assumed that carpet is a no-go, whereas our time spent in your home may give you a new perspective on pet-friendly carpet based on our experience. Perhaps you plan to age in place or have your parents/in-laws living with you for significant portions of the year, which means we need to consider ease of mobility.
Working with employees at a big box store like Home Depot or Lowe’s, who usually have minimal to no training in flooring or any experience with the flooring industry, cannot hold a candle to the level of personalized attention you’ll receive from a single appointment with Creative Floors.
2. Accurate Flooring Estimates & Lifetime Savings
An experienced flooring store with in-home service ultimately yields more accurate flooring estimates and lifetime savings. There are several reasons for this.
- Precise measurements. As we’ve mentioned above, precise measurements are essential to installation accuracy (more on that next) and to prevent you from spending more than you need to, OR – almost worse – not ordering enough and having to re-order, which leaves you with incomplete flooring for a stretch of time.
- Ordering the right products. Stores with in-home services are more apt to catch discrepancies between your lifestyle or future home plans and your initial selection instincts.
For example, you tell us you plan to rent your home in a few years, but you’re selections span the high-maintenance gamut (can your tenants be trusted to maintain them?), or you think you want natural hardwood when a LVP makes far more sense in the rooms adjacent to your pool patio, etc. Sometimes people don’t realize there is a height discrepancy between laminate and vinyl plank, which requires professional insight to build even transitions from room to room.
Ordering the right product for your home and lifestyle means spending far less over a lifetime of maintenance you didn’t want, or unnecessary repairs and replacements.
- Access to high-quality flooring installation. Big box stores contract with a wide range of flooring installation contractors who are contacted to take your job. This can result in a significant discrepancy in the installer’s professionalism, expertise, and outcome. A poorly installed floor causes a lifetime of costly issues and can wind up looking horrible from the get-go (wrinkles, mismatched patterns, exposed fasteners, etc.).
The combination of the Creative Floors team’s expertise and our long-standing, loyal partnerships with the Orlando area’s top licensed flooring contractors ensures that your final installation will provide years (or even decades) of cost-saving satisfaction.
3. Enjoy a Low-Pressure, High-Guidance Selection Process
Our goal is to make your flooring selection process as easy as possible. Our 25+ years of operation as a successful, family-owned and run business means we don’t have to use high-pressure sales tactics. We know that honesty, expertise, and exceptional customer service are all that’s required to draw in the customers who are right for us.
When you schedule your in-home flooring consultation, you get the spacious experience of being honest, relaxing, and taking advantage of our guidance-forward approach. We’re here to help you learn as much as possible, so you can make informed decisions and feel clear and confident about your final selections. Our low-pressure, high-guidance sales philosophy continues to serve us – and our clients – well.
Schedule Your In-Home Flooring Consultation With Creative Floors
There’s nothing that instills clarity and confidence in flooring choices like having the ability to have an expert show you samples right in your own home. It’s never been easier!
Schedule an in-home consultation with us, and you’ll learn firsthand why this time of attention is invaluable when it comes to flooring selections and installation. We’re happy to put you in touch with recent homeowners from Casselberry, Winter Park, and Longwood who have benefited from our services, and we hope to add you to our referral list.
