At Carpet Exchange, we have two consistent rules this time of year. Only double dip with the same chip in the guacamole if no one else is looking. And always commemorate Cinco de Mayo. After all, it’s an incredibly fitting tribute to both Mexican culture and heritage. Plus, it’s a nod to the wonderful Mexican community here.

Even though the Cinco de Mayo celebration only rolls around once a year, at Carpet Exchange there are plenty of things that we applaud every single day. So fittingly on this fifth day of May, we thought we’d take a quick look at five of those.

1. To get this party started, let’s talk about carpet for a bit.

Since carpet is our first name and it’s what helped us launch our business more than 30 years ago, it should come as no surprise that it occupies spot #1 for us.

Carpeting is soft and sumptuous, makes living rooms look luxurious and also is a fabulous and comforting choice to wake up to in any bedroom. It comes in every color under sun and in a wide variety of different fibers. Some of which, like Stainmaster carpet and SmartStrand carpet, are even engineered to be resistant to stains.

At Carpet Exchange, we carry literally thousands of carpeting options to choose from. And naturally that includes some of the world’s most coveted brands, including Shaw carpet, Mohawk carpet, and Karastan carpet.

2. COREtec luxury vinyl: 100% waterproof and 100% awesome.

A boon to busy families everyone, COREtec vinyl flooring is not only beautiful, it’s totally waterproof, kidproof and petproof. So if your kids can get a little rambunctious or your cat has a case of the zoomies, that’s no problem whatsoever.

COREtec comes in luxury vinyl plank that mimics real live hardwood and luxury vinyl tile that looks like natural stone. Better yet, you can find them all at Carpet Exchange.

3. So much hardwood, you’d think this stuff grew on trees.

While COREtec, and Karastan LuxeCraft for that matter, do a tremendous impression of actual hardwood flooring, one could argue that true solid hardwood is hard to beat when it comes to beauty. Frightfully few flooring choices offer you so much warmth, character, and appeal.

In the realm of hardwood, Carpet Exchange offers you a veritable forest of options. Like oak, ash, birch, maple, walnut, hickory and others. We also provide both traditional solid hardwood flooring and plenty of engineered hardwood as well.

4. Area rugs are a spectacular way to transform any room.

Simply put, adding a new area rug is one of the easiest ways possible to update any room in your home. Although you’ll definitely want to put a good rug pad underneath it, fundamentally all you have to do is bring it home and roll it out.

Fortunately, Carpet Exchange has you more than covered. We have wool area rugs, cotton area rugs, synthetic area rugs, nylon area rugs, polyester area rugs and even polypropylene area rugs designed for the great outdoors.

5. To top it all off, we offer you the best countertops too.

With all the different kind of flooring options we have, it goes without saying that Carpet Exchange is indeed your floor store. But we figured “why stop there?”.

We also have a splendid collection of slab granite countertops and quartz countertops capable of making your kitchen or bathroom look sensational.

Granite countertops are natural stone found courtesy of Mother Nature, so each one is uniquely a one-of-a-kind. Quartz countertops, on the hand, are created as a super hard composite, so you get a truly seamless solution that is also incredibly easy to maintain.

Despite all of that being said, today is Cinco de Mayo! So don’t you dare siesta on having this much-need fiesta. We sincerely hope you enjoy a day brimming with food, fun, sun, friends and family.