Wooden flooring is a powerful architectural design tool and is limited only by the designer's imagination. The wonderful character and beauty found in authentic, natural hardwoods offers a high quality, long lasting foundation for your home. Technology has provided recent improvements in hardwood manufacturing and finishing processes and manufacturers are now able to produce wood floors that are more durable and appropriate for homeowners to use in all of the rooms in their homes, including basements and bathrooms where traditional flooring products would not retain their quality over the lifetime of the home. There is a wide variety of wood species, each with its own elegant grain and color to compliment any interior. In addition to the classic North American hardwoods such as oak, maple and ash, there are now exotic hardwood species like cork and bamboo which come from global suppliers, all manufactured from renewable resources.