Few floors offer the same dynamic beauty as natural hardwood. Hopkins Carpet One Floor & Home in Hopkins, MN, is your local hardwood store, with a quality selection of products. Hardwood is an investment in your home. It often represents a significant upfront cost but usually adds value to your property thanks to its long-lasting beauty. In fact, many hardwood floors are designed to last for decades, even the life of your home. Visit us to view our wood flooring options and talk with our friendly flooring experts. We can help you find a floor that fits your design vision and a hardwood option that suits your specific lifestyle.
Hardwood flooring is a timeless investment perfectly suited for homeowners in Hopkins. With its mix of historic neighborhoods, family-friendly suburbs, and proximity to Minneapolis, hardwood floors bring a unique blend of style, durability, and practicality to your home. Here’s why they’re an ideal choice:
When shopping for hardwood floors, you’ll encounter a wide variety of styles and wood species. Popular options include maple, oak, hickory, mahogany, and birch, each offering distinct shades, grain patterns, and levels of durability. For example, solid oak is among the strongest hardwood choices available. The age of the tree also influences these characteristics at the time of harvesting.
If sustainability is important to you, our experts can help you find responsibly sourced hardwood options certified from sustainably managed forests.
In addition to species, hardwood flooring comes in a range of finishes and designs. Manufacturers often enhance planks with techniques like staining, texturing, and varying shine levels. You’ll also find modern options such as extra-wide planks and those with beveled edges, allowing you to create a floor that perfectly complements your style.
Hardwood flooring is renowned for its durability and longevity, but doesn’t pair well with moisture. Since wood is naturally porous, it absorbs moisture from the air during humid months, leading to swelling, shrinking, warping, or gapping in the planks. To prevent these issues, it’s best to install hardwood floors in dry, climate-controlled spaces or select the appropriate type of hardwood for rooms with higher moisture challenges.
The key to protecting hardwood floors is managing your home’s humidity levels. Aim to maintain a 30-50% relative humidity range, which can be easily monitored with a hygrometer. During humid seasons, a dehumidifier can help reduce excess moisture, while during drier months, a humidifier will condition the floorboards and prevent cracking. Taking these steps ensures your hardwood floors remain beautiful and resilient.
There are two main types of hardwood planks, solid and engineered. Solid wood floors are made from a single piece of premium wood that’s typically about ¾’’ thick, meaning it can be sanded and refinished over the decades. Engineered hardwood features a special layered construction made from multiple layers of composite wood with a hardwood veneer at the surface. Both types of wood look identical from the surface, but engineered planks are more resistant to foot traffic and moisture. While you may not be able to refinish them as often, engineered hardwood is more versatile. It can be installed on every level of your home, including basements, whereas solid wood is only recommended for dry rooms on or above grade. Engineered hardwood can be refinished, but the number of times depends on how thick the veneer is.
Thanks to its layered construction, engineered hardwood offers greater stability than solid wood. Each plank is made by pressing layers of wood together in a cross-directional pattern, reducing wood's natural tendency to expand and contract with changes in moisture and temperature. This makes engineered hardwood a versatile option for installations above, below, or on-ground levels, as it can handle seasonal changes. However, it’s not ideal for areas with excessive moisture, like bathrooms. For professional hardwood flooring installations, engineered hardwood is a durable and reliable choice, especially in spaces with humidity, temperature fluctuations, or heavy foot traffic.
Hopkins Carpet One Floor & Home has many hardwood options on display, so we’ll certainly have a style to fit your design needs. As members of the Carpet One co-op, the largest flooring cooperative in the nation, we have superior buying power with suppliers. That means you’ll find the same low prices as big box stores when you shop with us, plus we’re locally owned and operated. To experience the co-op difference, visit our showroom today.
Contact us to learn more about our hardwood flooring selection. We proudly serve the communities of Hopkins, Chaska, Crystal, Chanhassen, Golden Valley, Maple Grove, Eden Prairie, Minneapolis, Plymouth, Minnetonka, St Louis Park, and Edina, MN.
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