Posted On November 10th, 2009
At Pierce Flooring and Design, we pride ourselves on our service to our customers and our customer service experience. We recently had a great experience with a customer and wanted to share it will all of our readers.
Late one afternoon, a customer walked into our store and right away we could tell that she didn’t know where to start. After greeting her, we found that her youngest child was going off to college and it was time to replace the flooring and all of the signs of years of wear and tear from her three children. You could tell it was an emotional time, but that replacing the flooring was something that needed to be done. Knowing this was a difficult time, we tried to help her view this project not as a replacement of floors with years and years of memories, but an opportunity to do whatever she wanted with their bedrooms!
So, we explored the home office option, the workout room, craft room, additional closet, guest bedroom and many others. After exploring the different flooring options, showing her all of the new introductions since the last time she purchased flooring and the pro’s and con’s, she decided to replace the carpet in the main living areas with the hardwood she’s always wanted as the first part of the project. The next phase would include replacing the carpet in 2 of the childrens bedrooms. One would receive a nice patterned carpet to become a guest bedroom and one would receive a durable, but perfectly neutral carpet in case that bedroom ever needed to become a nursery for grandchildren.
After much discussion, she decided not to change the third bedroom into a room for herself in the hopes that she would always have her three children home for the holidays and having a room of their own was important to her. She did however, decorate each of them with a theme that she wanted! After all, they weren’t there everyday anymore! She did plan ahead though and installed hardwood in the third bedroom so she could use the area rug she found and fell in love with.
At the end of the day, she was no longer anxious about changing the flooring and was genuinely excited about the new guest rooms and the new looks she was going to get to create. She looked at it like 3 mini projects to keep her mind off of her youngest one leaving the nest. She made excellent choices and those choices reflected her style and the individual styles she envisioned for each of those rooms. We even made the plan for the installers to cut out the section of carpet with the finger nail polish stain that happened over 15 years ago as a reminder of a funny family story they all shared a laugh about.
Helping customers is what we are all about. It is very rewarding to be able to help guide someone into a decision that makes them happy and fall in love with their home all over again. There is nothing better than helping someone and seeing their reaction when it’s all complete. People like this customer make us love what we do.