Happy Birthday to US!

First ever Showroom

E-sales at work

First E-sales Team

Charlie, John and Dave

First Company Truck

It started with a concept, that continues at simpleFLOORS. Taking care of our customers, not investors. 4 years ago today, in (an ant infested) small showroom/call center on Palou ave, an out of the way industrial neighborhood just south of downtown San Francisco simpleFLOORS was born.

With no budget and a little paint and elbow grease we build it.... and all of a sudden, the customers came, and by the hundreds. Some remember, originally the company name was floor factory.

Here is a nostalgic link to the original website, created from scratch.

Our styles, quality and vision propelled simplefloors.com to the 2nd highest trafficked website in its class. The product line has expanded greatly boasting the freshest in styles. 15 stores later and a booming e-sales division shipping quality floors at low prices, to homes across both Canada and the U.S.

Just a little company that simply could. Happy Birthday to the entire simpleFLOORS team. 4 years is a short time, the best is yet to come, we have just begun to get started!

When you work here,

And you sell the most

Installation...............

YOU FLY IN ONE OF THESE

AND GET ON ONE OF THESE

TO HERE----------------

AND DO THIS!

CONGRATS TO

SHERIN NAGRA

for selling the most installation

and winning a flight for 2 and

3 nights at Casa Pericos in

Beautiful Yelapa, Mexico

Old World Chisel Acacia Room Scenes

Brando from the Chicago office, took a video class at the local Mac store and this is his first version. This is a compilation of the room scenes from the Old World Chisel collection. Its nice to see these in larger room scenes. Keep the creativity coming........

Chicago, Pizza, Party and Peter

We are sorry to see him go but he is not really leaving us. Peter from our internet sale team is re-locating to our new georgia office where he is certain to continue his record breaking streak.  This picture was taken during his farewell pizza lunch party. Jan in the background seems a little to excited to see him go....hmm.........

Quite Simply a Hero

Oscar is a excellent installation coordinator, a great communicator and now a local HERO. Oscar was honored by our local King County sheriffs dept., by being presented with the MERITORIOUS SERVICE AWARD by none other than the sheriff herself. He was picked up and escorted to the presentation by officer friendly himself. First time he got to ride in the front of a cruiser. see pic. of both outside of our of Seattle store.

Below is copy of an article that ran in a recent copy of the Stranger,written by David Schmader. It talks about our hero and why he won this award.

WEDNESDAY, APRIL 22 Attentive readers will recall the Metro bus saga of May 2008, when a man inflamed by mental illness and/or religious fervor boarded a bus and began beating a fellow passenger, who happened to be a blind woman. Reporting from the scene: Hot Tipper Oscar, aka Oscar Grey, who rushed to the woman's aid and, with the help of his fellow passengers, restrained the crazy clobberer until cops arrived. Today brings a most gratifying coda to this story, courtesy once again of Hot Tipper Oscar, who this afternoon was escorted by a King County Sheriff's deputy to the regional training center in Burien, where he—along with five of his fellow passengers—was given a meritorious service award for his help in stopping the assault. Congratulations to Oscar, who describes his award as "parchment in a green leather folder embossed with the King County insignia in gold." The wonderfully specific text: "To commend your actions when you intervened in an assault on a visually impaired woman on a Metro coach. The assault suspect was distracted and restrained by you and other passengers until King County deputies arrived on the scene. Your efforts kept the victim from suffering more serious injury." Hurrah for all.

Sustainable Rain-forests?

Ipe impressions. Both the grain and color mimic the Brazilian Walnut (ipe) wood species. A unique finishing & grain embossing surface process transforms the appearance from bamboo into that of an exotic Brazilian Hardwood floor. When bamboo is the sustainable material of choice but a wood grain is more desire-able from the perspective of design, theIpe impressions option is ideal. This renewable floor has Low Voc’s, counts for LEED points and the bamboo plant from which this is harvested, lives on to be harvested again.  The adhesives used are free of components classified as hazardous to the environment. No solvents, no heavy metals no bactericides.  No rainforests were harmed in the making of this floor.

New Product addition

An even wood surface in the field of the plank, a slightly higher than normal gloss level. Hand burmished darkened areas throughout the flooring. Hand painted/darkened french bleed beveled edges outline the 6" width of each plank.

8 coats of treffic aluminum oxide, 1/2 thick real wood, multi-directional plied grains. Glue, nail or floating installation all approved with this exciting new high design release. We have it by the truckload. Buy it for just under half the price of it's $9 flooring store price. Its why we say....

simplefloors

taste. the difference