Leftwich Chapman Designer Floors
Last week our Materials class went on a field trip to Leftwich Chapman Designer Flooring Company office and showroom. Larry Leftwich personally spoke to the class about the company, what they do, and what different types of products they carry. I really enjoyed Larry Leftwich’s presentation of the showroom. He gave the impression of representing a very friendly and professional business. The showroom was very impressive and was designed in the perfect setting to market and sell products. The customer can walk around the store and easily see each and every sample of the products on display. The store displays a variety of different products including: rugs, carpet, stone, glass tile, ceramic, wood, laminate and vinyl flooring; shutters; and blinds.
There was an incredible display of different types of wood flooring and products that appear similarly to the hard wood floor look. There was bamboo, cork, and leather flooring. These were very interesting to me because I had never seen this before. I wish I could see the products applied in an actual room and not a 3x5 foot rectangle spot on the floor of the showroom. My class has multiple questions about the durability and quality of the bamboo, cork, and leather floors. Larry Leftwich was very honest in his opinions and known facts about the products. The most impressive of these three floor types is the leather. Originally I thought that the leather would scratch, crack, or tear easily but, Larry Leftwich pulled a coin out of his pocket and began to scratch the leather floor vigorously, the class soon realized that this floor may be durable and have sustainability after all.
My favorite section of the showroom was the Kitchen Showroom area. He had a very aesthetic arrangement of different tile sample boards set up all over the area. I felt like I was in a jewelry making store looking all over the place at the many assortments of different beads, only in different types of glass, ceramic, metallic and stone backsplash and flooring. They had so many beautiful assortments and arrangements of tiles for the backsplash. I left Leftwich Chapman Designer Floors with exciting new design ideas. At the time in Dr. Gaines materials class we were working on a bathroom design project. I wanted to incorporate a mosaic tile arrangement on several of the walls in the bathroom but I was not having any luck finding samples in the resource room at school or Home Depot and Lowes. I decided to call Leftwich Chapman to see if they possibly had any product samples that they a no longer needed. I was so nervous to ask but, the employee that I talked to was so friendly and helpful she told me I could come in at 9:00am the next morning and she would have some stuff set out just for me and this particular project. I was honored and felt very lucky to have this designer product company allow me to come in and sort through there samples and find things for my project. I had lots of success and found many great glass tile and stone floor samples that matched perfectly for the design that me and my partner in the project were going for. This field trip was a wonderful experience and I hope after I graduate, I will be able to do business with Leftwich Chapman Designer Flooring.
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