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Our team at Spicher and Company is a paragon of customer service and quality. Our motto is a quote from General Patton ~ "Accept the challenges, so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory!" Picture frame and art prints for beautiful decor. Exclusive artwork by artist Kolene Spicher and the Design Loft.

Vintage Vinyl®: A New Era in Flooring

A variety of patterns from the classic Vintage Vinyl collection
Pattern 64 – A stitch in Time with Butterflies
Franklin Your Humble Servant from the WILLIAMSBURG collection
In home decor, it’s a beautiful (but all too rare) thing when form and function meet smack in the middle; especially in an instance where both are of equal importance, like flooring. But that’s precisely what you get with Vintage Vinyl floor cloths . They’re equal parts durable and stylish, fuss-free and fashionable.
Daren Lechner, owner of Pura Vida Home and Gift in Needham, Mass., says it’s the combination of style and practicality that have made this vintage flooring choice one of his top-selling products over the last few years.
“Customers love that Vintage Vinyl floor cloths offer a modern twist on durable linoleum flooring,” says Lechner. “They come in wonderful vintage designs that are produced on a non-slip, lay flat surface.” The soft and flexible vinyl has a matte finish giving it a warm, comfortable feel to the touch.
Considering Vintage Vinyl floor cloths for your home? Lechner explains the benefits, applications, and care instructions for this increasingly popular flooring choice.
What’s so great about Vintage Vinyl floor cloths?
There’s a lot to love about this flooring, but durability, flexibility, and beauty are among the top draws. With over 85 patterns—each with their own color options—you can choose from over 800 cloths. There are eighteen standard size options sold as rectangles, squares, and runners. Custom sizes are also available for two of the four collections.
Durability and Maintenance
Perhaps the number-one reason Pura Vida’s customers choose Vintage Vinyl floor cloths is for their durability and ease of care. “People with pets and kids love these cloths,” Lechner says. “Dirt and spills wipe clean with a cloth and water.” Floor cloths add charm and interest in high-traffic rooms or spaces that are prone to getting dirty, like kitchens and mudrooms.
Additionally, unlike area rugs and carpeting, Vintage Vinyl floor cloths don’t collect dust, and they wipe completely clean, making them an ideal choice for homeowners with allergies, says Lechner.
Flexibility
Traditionally, floor cloths are used like area rugs, but they can also be used wall-to-wall. This makes them a popular choice with renters and homeowners, since Vintage Vinyl floor cloths offer a temporary but effective way to conceal old or ugly flooring. It’s an efficient way to cover a floor in an instant without the cost of ripping up the old floor. Because floor cloths don’t require rug pads—which can stick to the floor and leave adhesive behind—there’s no risk of damage to the flooring underneath, either.
Style
There are four collections, each with their own style.
The Classic collection features patterns based on vintage designs reminiscent of past decades from the 30’s to the 60’s. You’ll also find patterns from basic and simple to ornate Victorian and Baroque.
Artwork and textiles in the archives of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation inspire the WILLIAMSBURG Collection , this collaboration introduces a fresh approach to historic floor cloths—an essential element in many 18th century homes. The collection includes updated concepts with warm colors and a beautifully aged look.
The Artisanry collection features stunning designs that look like a real wood floor, complete with grain and knots. Use these cloths on your existing wood floor to create an instant wood inlay effect.
Where can you use Vintage Vinyl floor cloths?
Vintage Vinyl floor cloths are suitable for any room in the house, but Lechner says laundry rooms, kitchens, dining areas, and bathrooms are the top spots his residential customers install them. “Because they’re low-profile, at only 1/8” thick, they’re also a perfect choice for rooms where the need to open a door would make an area rug too thick.” The low profile also lessens the chance of tripping which happens with thick carpets.
Inside the home isn’t the only place for these chameleon coverings: They can also be used outdoors in protected locations such as under an awning, in a pavilion, or on a covered patio. Floor cloths are also an ideal choice for commercial spaces. “They’re perfect for retail stores, restaurants, and office spaces,” Lechner says.
Lechner has also seen unconventional uses for floor cloths in the more than five years he’s been selling them. Some of the most creative applications: using them as a wall covering, custom flooring in a van, on a tabletop, and as a placemat under pet bowls.
How do you care for Vintage Vinyl floor cloths?
While Vintage Vinyl floor cloths are hard-wearing, they’re not indestructible, cautions Lechner. He offers a few simple rules for keeping them in top shape:
– Use felt pads under dining chairs to increase the life of the cloth.
– Always use caution with stilettos. Walking on the floor cloths with high-heeled shoes can damage the vinyl.
– Do not drag heavy items across the vinyl. Like hardwood or laminate flooring, dragging furniture or heavy objects across the floor cloths can damage them.
Otherwise, this low-maintenance flooring option requires only regular mopping to remove any surface dust or dirt.
For more information on Vintage Vinyl floor cloths, visit puravidahomeandgift.com .
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Needham, MA
Vintage vinyl floor cloths from Pura Vida Home in Needham, Massachusetts, are stylish, durable, and low maintenance.
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More than a digitally perfect CD, and way more than a compressed audio file downloaded to a portable device, a vinyl record is a record, if you will, of an artist or genre at a particular moment in time. From the pantheon of 1950s jazz to the
More than a digitally perfect CD, and way more than a compressed audio file downloaded to a portable device, a vinyl record is a record, if you will, of an artist or genre at a particular moment in time. From the pantheon of 1950s jazz to the Psych records of the 1960s, vintage vinyl records in their original jackets deliver sound as well as sensibility. No wonder contemporary artists like Pearl Jam and Radiohead insist on releasing their new work in a variety of media, with vinyl at the top of the list.

Vinyl records were not the first form of analog sound recordings. Cylinders came first, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. Edison did a great many things right, but his phonograph cylinders were bulky and expensive to produce, so in 1887, Emile Berliner invented a gramophone that could play flat discs. By 1929, the cylinder was dead.

The earliest records were not even made of vinyl. Some were fashioned of hard rubber but most were pressed out of shellac, which was a mixture of resin and fiber (cotton was commonly used). Shellac records had their drawbacks (they were so brittle that if you dropped one it was likely to crack or shatter), but the format lasted until about 1950 when vinyl finally took over.

The first vinyl records had actually been manufactured by RCA many years before, in 1930. Those discs were 12 inches in diameter and meant to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, or RPM. Although vinyl records generated a lot less playback noise than shellac, the Great Depression was no time to be introducing a new entertainment product with limited manufacturer support, so vinyl didn’t catch on then.

In 1948, Columbia introduced its trademarked 12-inch, 33 1/3 LP (for Long Play). RCA countered with a 7-inch, 45 RPM EP (for Extended Play) disc. For two years, consumers faced a format choice that caused phonograph manufacturers to equip their devices with both 45 and 33 1/3 playback speeds (many companies also added 78 since that format was still quite popular). As we now know, vinyl 33 1/3 LPs prevailed, while smaller, 7-inch vinyl 45s were used for singles.

Vinyl records had numerous advantages over shellac, with durability and sound quality being the top two. But vinyl was hardly a perfect medium. The discs warped when subjected to high temperatures or improper storage, and they tended to acquire a static charge, which meant they attracted a lot of dust. You could wipe the dust off the disc, but you had to be careful because the discs were very easy to scratch. In most cases, this use caused hiss; in some cases, a record’s groove would be so damaged that the needle would keep skipping back, providing the source for the phrase "broken record."

So why collect imperfect vintage vinyl records when CDs offer the same music but without the background noise caused by a needle moving through vinyl grooves? Many people believe the sampling rate used to capture sound on a CD is too low. In other words, the sound on a CD may be digitally perfect, but it may not be all the sound that’s available to capture. That’s part of the reason why CDs are often described as cold, whereas analog records feel warmer and richer to many listeners.

DJs like vinyl, too, because it gives them more control over the music they are playing than if they were spinning CDs—it’s like the difference between driving an automatic versus a car with a 5-speed manual transmission.

Beyond these differences, there is the fun of collecting itself. In some cases, as with early pressing of the second and third Grateful Dead albums, the vinyl versions are the only way to hear what those records sounded like before they were digitally remastered. Other recordings have never been adapted for newer formats, meaning those rare vinyl records offer the only way to hear their music.

Unusual album art is another reason to buy vinyl records. For the Rolling Stones’s "Sticky Fingers," artist Andy Warhol created a cover that featured an actual working zipper; some years later, artist Robert Rauschenberg designed a clear plastic cover for the Talking Heads’s "Speaking in Tongues." The Who’s "Tommy" came with a booklet filled with art and lyrics, and if you want a copy of The Beatles ’s infamous "butcher" version of "Yesterday and Today," you’ve got to go back to the original vinyl.

Also collectible are the 45s . Motown 45s features artists from Michael Jackson to Stevie Wonder, and few logos in popular music are as iconic as the crowing rooster on the yellow Sun Records label, especially if the name of the recording artist at the bottom of that label is a guy named Elvis Presley . Finally, thanks to their retro-looking labels, 78 records are appealing, regardless of who was recorded.
More than a digitally perfect CD, and way more than a compressed audio file downloaded to a portable device, a vinyl record is a record, if you will, of an artist or genre at a particular moment in time. From the pantheon of 1950s jazz to the Psych records of the 1960s, vintage vinyl records in their original jackets deliver sound as well as sensibility. No wonder contemporary artists like Pearl Jam and Radiohead insist on releasing their new work in a variety of media, with vinyl at the top of the list.

Vinyl records were not the first form of analog sound recordings. Cylinders came first, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. Edison did a great many things right, but his phonograph cylinders were bulky and expensive to produce, so in 1887, Emile Berliner invented a gramophone that could play flat discs. By 1929, the cylinder was dead.

The earliest records were not even made of vinyl. Some were fashioned of hard rubber but most were pressed out of shellac, which was a mixture of resin and fiber (cotton was commonly used). Shellac records had their drawbacks (they were so brittle that if you dropped one it was likely to crack or shatter), but the format lasted until about 1950 when vinyl finally took over.

The first vinyl records had actually been manufactured by RCA many years before, in 1930. Those discs were 12 inches in diameter and meant to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, or RPM. Although vinyl records generated a lot less playback noise than shellac, the Great Depression was no time to be introducing a new entertainment product with limited manufacturer support, so vinyl didn’t catch on then.

In 1948, Columbia introduced its trademarked 12-inch, 33 1/3 LP (for Long Play). RCA countered with a 7-inch, 45 RPM EP (for Extended Play) disc. For two years, consumers faced a format choice that caused phonograph manufacturers to equip their devices with both 45 and 33 1/3 playback speeds (many companies also added 78 since that format was...
More than a digitally perfect CD, and way more than a compressed audio file downloaded to a portable device, a vinyl record is a record, if you will, of an artist or genre at a particular moment in time. From the pantheon of 1950s jazz to the Psych records of the 1960s, vintage vinyl records in their original jackets deliver sound as well as sensibility. No wonder contemporary artists like Pearl Jam and Radiohead insist on releasing their new work in a variety of media, with vinyl at the top of the list.

Vinyl records were not the first form of analog sound recordings. Cylinders came first, invented by Thomas Edison in 1877. Edison did a great many things right, but his phonograph cylinders were bulky and expensive to produce, so in 1887, Emile Berliner invented a gramophone that could play flat discs. By 1929, the cylinder was dead.

The earliest records were not even made of vinyl. Some were fashioned of hard rubber but most were pressed out of shellac, which was a mixture of resin and fiber (cotton was commonly used). Shellac records had their drawbacks (they were so brittle that if you dropped one it was likely to crack or shatter), but the format lasted until about 1950 when vinyl finally took over.

The first vinyl records had actually been manufactured by RCA many years before, in 1930. Those discs were 12 inches in diameter and meant to be played at 33 1/3 revolutions per minute, or RPM. Although vinyl records generated a lot less playback noise than shellac, the Great Depression was no time to be introducing a new entertainment product with limited manufacturer support, so vinyl didn’t catch on then.

In 1948, Columbia introduced its trademarked 12-inch, 33 1/3 LP (for Long Play). RCA countered with a 7-inch, 45 RPM EP (for Extended Play) disc. For two years, consumers faced a format choice that caused phonograph manufacturers to equip their devices with both 45 and 33 1/3 playback speeds (many companies also added 78 since that format was still quite popular). As we now know, vinyl 33 1/3 LPs prevailed, while smaller, 7-inch vinyl 45s were used for singles.

Vinyl records had numerous advantages over shellac, with durability and sound quality being the top two. But vinyl was hardly a perfect medium. The discs warped when subjected to high temperatures or improper storage, and they tended to acquire a static charge, which meant they attracted a lot of dust. You could wipe the dust off the disc, but you had to be careful because the discs were very easy to scratch. In most cases, this use caused hiss; in some cases, a record’s groove would be so damaged that the needle would keep skipping back, providing the source for the phrase "broken record."

So why collect imperfect vintage vinyl records when CDs offer the same music but without the background noise caused by a needle moving through vinyl grooves? Many people believe the sampling rate used to capture sound on a CD is too low. In other words, the sound on a CD may be digitally perfect, but it may not be all the sound that’s available to capture. That’s part of the reason why CDs are often described as cold, whereas analog records feel warmer and richer to many listeners.

DJs like vinyl, too, because it gives them more control over the music they are playing than if they were spinning CDs—it’s like the difference between driving an automatic versus a car with a 5-speed manual transmission.

Beyond these differences, there is the fun of collecting itself. In some cases, as with early pressing of the second and third Grateful Dead albums, the vinyl versions are the only way to hear what those records sounded like before they were digitally remastered. Other recordings have never been adapted for newer formats, meaning those rare vinyl records offer the only way to hear their music.

Unusual album art is another reason to buy vinyl records. For the Rolling Stones’s "Sticky Fingers," artist Andy Warhol created a cover that featured an actual working zipper; some years later, artist Robert Rauschenberg designed a clear plastic cover for the Talking Heads’s "Speaking in Tongues." The Who’s "Tommy" came with a booklet filled with art and lyrics, and if you want a copy of The Beatles ’s infamous "butcher" version of "Yesterday and Today," you’ve got to go back to the original vinyl.

Also collectible are the 45s . Motown 45s features artists from Michael Jackson to Stevie Wonder, and few logos in popular music are as iconic as the crowing rooster on the yellow Sun Records label, especially if the name of the recording artist at the bottom of that label is a guy named
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