Tanja Kern

1 week ago | floortrendsmag.com | Tanja Kern

After decades in the flooring industry, Michael Barrows thought he was ready to retire. Instead, he found himself embarking on an entirely new adventure—opening Atlanta Flooring Studio in Alpharetta, Georgia, in 2024 alongside his business partner Mimi Mulugeta, who made her own dramatic career shift from telecommunications to flooring just a few years ago.

1 week ago | floortrendsmag.com | Tanja Kern

Patcraft marked its 80th anniversary at NeoCon with several new collections that showcase the company's evolution from hand-crafted textiles to high-performance, machine-crafted commercial flooring. The 2025 NeoCon showroom celebrated 80 years of history and innovation. A history wall and video showcased how Patcraft's legacy began in 1945 with intricate design in hand-crafted textiles – the original cut and loop – as a tufted chenille bedspread company.

2 weeks ago | eichlernetwork.com | Tanja Kern

Reaching into the past to capture a mindset inherent in postwar modern gardens With their glass walls, wood facades, and low-slung architecture that snuggles into the landscape, the homes that Joe Eichler built, not unlike most other open-planned mid-century moderns, were meant to become one with the great outdoors. However, homeowners nowadays are finding that their original yards—with monolithic paving and punctuation-mark plantings—have either deteriorated over the years or, at the very...

2 weeks ago | floortrendsmag.com | Tanja Kern

The Flooring Sustainability Summit returns July 16-17 to Washington D.C., bringing together 250 industry leaders to tackle evolving sustainability challenges. Bill Griese, deputy executive director of Tile Council of North America, discusses this year's focus on circularity, federal policy shifts, and marketplace alignment.

2 weeks ago | floortrendsmag.com | Tanja Kern

Representatives Glenn Thompson (R-PA) and Terri Sewell (D-AL) have introduced bipartisan legislation to include solid American hardwood products like flooring and paneling in the Energy Efficient Home Improvement Credit. The Solid American Hardwood Tax Credit Act would allow taxpayers to claim tax credits for hardwood materials as qualified energy efficiency improvements, citing hardwood's carbon sequestration properties and role in long-term carbon storage.