Blogs

Is There a Place for Luxury Vinyl Tile?

We've been thinking that a relatively new flooring product deserves your attention.

Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) has been around for a very long time. Its present incarnation has been available for about two years. It has not enjoyed super wide use, but has received lots of acclaim from folks who have tried it.

Although its similarity to the appearance of wood is almost creepy, we are not suggesting that it be a substitute for wood. But it is an alternative for some design solutions.

What You Can Do for Your Clients Before The Holidays

The holidays are fast approaching. We decided it might be useful to offer up a few tips on getting things done in that busy time so that you are better able to manage client expectations.

 

Things That We Can Handle Quickly - Most of the time

 

Of course there are exceptions to every situation, good and bad. The following scenarios we can easily handle within approximately two weeks. Check with us to make sure before you inform your client.

 

New York Rug Show 2018

Last year we were all set to go big at the New York Rug Show, but hurricane Irma held us hostage in Tampa while she made her way through.

So it was good to get back to the Javitts' Center at the beginning of September this year to see what was happening.

There were some new offerings from old friends. New offerings from new friends. And, some interesting stuff that I want to mention, but did not buy. 

To keep my courage up, I often recall my old friend and long-time rug merchant of Naples FL John Craig who said this about buying rugs.

A Message from Bob Ford

 

Greetings everyone.

I have been laying carpet all my life. I started in high school working for my dad whom many of you know.

It's been great. I've loved it and I still love it.

All in the Family Pets are special family members who require special Design considerations.

From Turkey, with Love

New Anatolian Collection

Every year or so, a vendor friend from Turkey of long acquaintance offers us a small collection of Anatolian rugs. They have proven to be very popular. We generally sell them all.

 

Anatolia (Asia Minor) refers to the geographic region that occupies the land that modern Turkey occupies.

 

The rugs are older, but as always in great shape. Some may qualify as "vintage," that is older than 50 years but younger than 100.

 

Happy Birthday, Gary Dicus

This being Gary's Birthday Month (his birthday is May 20, 1950), we decided to revisit his vision and accomplishments to remind ourselves why we are all here.

In the early 1980s Gary supported his family selling carpet. With a carload of sample books, he spent most of the week on the road visiting clients.

New Website

We Have a New Website

After six years we have updated our website.

We've eliminated rug listings. They were impossible to keep up and drew very little traffic. This experiment proved to us what we already knew: designers want to see and feel rugs before deciding on them. Showroom 10, website 0.

What's New?

Maybe the most common question that we get from designers as they enter the showroom: "What's New?"

So we have included a listing of pictures of our newest rug arrivals under the Rug tab on the site.

Four Facts Every Designer Should Know About Wood Floors Here are four wood flooring topics that can gobble up a lot of your time, but can be tamed with these facts.

CloseOuts! A New Opportunity for Designers at ADB

Gary Dicus who founded our company and who had an outsized love for rugs said many times that a rug sometimes has to hang in the showroom for a while, but sooner or later someone will come in and love it.

This is largely true.

And we still do it. 

But we have run out of space to hang everything we would like to and need to remedy that so we can bring in more new stock.

Here is our plan.