Blog > From New Floors to a Whole New Room - What Shunnarah Home Renovations Adds to an Alabama Flooring Project
By Shunnarah Flooring Team
Published: September 30th, 2026
Pull up the carpet in an older Homewood or Mountain Brook house and you rarely find just a subfloor underneath. You find trim that needs replacing, or a baseboard gap the old carpet edge used to hide, plus maybe a water stain that means paint is coming next.
Shunnarah Flooring has spent nearly twenty years measuring rooms across Jefferson and Shelby County. One pattern shows up again and again: a flooring project rarely stays a flooring project once the old material comes up. That is exactly why the company launched the Shunnarah Home Renovations team. Schedule a free in-home walkthrough and find out what your room actually needs before you commit to anything.
Most of Shunnarah Flooring's service area sits on expansive red clay soil, the same clay that gives Central Alabama its rust-colored dirt. That soil absorbs water during Alabama's roughly 54 inches of annual rainfall. It then expands and contracts as it dries, creating slow ground movement beneath slabs and foundations year after year (USDA NRCS Web Soil Survey).
Over enough years, that movement is one of several possible reasons a house develops sticking doors, small gaps between trim and wall, or a slightly uneven floor. A flooring crew can flag these signs. Anything beyond minor cosmetic gaps deserves a proper evaluation from a foundation specialist first.
None of that shows up on a home inspection checklist labeled "flooring." It shows up the day the old carpet or worn hardwood comes out, once the crew gets a clear look underneath.
Homewood, Mountain Brook, and Vestavia Hills all carry a meaningful share of homes built well before today's construction standards. That older housing stock is exactly where a flooring estimate turns into a longer conversation. Trim, paint, or a small repair often comes up once the crew is on site.
Pro Tip from the Shunnarah Flooring Team: In older sections of Homewood and Mountain Brook, trim and baseboards were often cut to fit the original flooring decades ago. Switching from carpet to hardwood or LVP usually means trim height and door clearance need attention too. We flag this at the in-home estimate, not as a surprise change order after demo day.
Shunnarah Home Renovations is not a separate company competing for the same customer. It is the same team and point of contact, extending into the work a flooring project in an older home tends to surface. That includes interior painting, trim and baseboard replacement, minor drywall repair, and small-scope remodel work tied to the room being floored.
Say you are replacing worn carpet in a living room with engineered hardwood. You can also have the baseboards replaced and walls repainted in the same project window. The same crew that measured the room in the first place coordinates it all.
This matters most for two kinds of homeowners. One already knows they want more than new floors but dreads managing two contractors on two schedules. The other did not plan a renovation at all, until the flooring crew found a water stain or soft subfloor spot needing attention first. It is the same reasoning behind 6 Reasons To Choose Shunnarah Flooring: fewer companies to manage means fewer chances for something to fall through the cracks.
The Shunnarah Flooring team puts it this way: "We built Home Renovations because we were already having this conversation with customers anyway. A living room rarely gets new floors in isolation. The trim needs to match. The walls usually need a fresh coat. Homeowners would rather have one crew handle all of it than track down a second contractor mid-project."
Reviewer Jim Huckestein's experience reflects this pattern directly. He worked with the Shunnarah team on a home renovation project that spanned engineered wood flooring, tile, and carpet. It was all one scope, not three separate jobs booked with three separate companies.
"Recently, I completed a home renovation project where I utilized Homewood Carpet and Flooring's products including engineered wood flooring, tile and carpet. The service and professionalism of everyone at HC&F was outstanding. Quality, delivery and service were spot on!"
Jim H., Home Renovation Project
The biggest practical difference is scheduling. When flooring and renovation work are booked with two separate companies, each contractor works around the other's calendar. A delay on one side pushes the other back too.
When one team handles both, the flooring installation and the adjacent trim, paint, or repair work get sequenced together from the start. There is no second walkthrough needed to catch a new contractor up on a job that is already half finished.
This does not mean every flooring customer needs a full renovation. Most projects are still exactly what they sound like: new carpet, hardwood, or LVP in one or two rooms. The renovation option exists for the homeowner who wants to solve the whole room at once. It also exists for the homeowner who gets a call mid-project explaining that something else needs attention first.
For homeowners weighing luxury vinyl plank against hardwood in a room that also needs trim work, one team changes the conversation. That decision and the flooring decision happen together, with one quote covering both.
A combined project does not change how you care for the new floor once it is installed. Wood flooring performs best when indoor relative humidity stays between 30 and 50 percent (National Wood Flooring Association). Birmingham's summer humidity regularly runs into the high 60s and low 70s percent range, consistent with NOAA's 30-year climate normals for the region. A working dehumidifier during the muggiest stretch of July and August genuinely matters for a wood floor's long-term stability.
What does change is the finish work around the floor. Freshly painted trim needs a few weeks to fully cure before heavy cleaning. New baseboards should be caulked and sealed at the floor line, to keep humidity and dust from working underneath them over time.
The most common mistake homeowners make is treating new trim and paint as maintenance-free simply because they are new. A quick wipe-down of baseboards every few months keeps both the paint and the floor looking finished for years, not months.
"Both Foo and his brother Paul were amazingly accommodating and kind. We had just closed on a new home and they jumped through hoops to get us our flooring before we moved into our new place."
Homewood Homeowner, New Home Closing Timeline
Not every flooring company should also handle trim and paint work, and not every general contractor understands a proper flooring subfloor assessment. Before combining the two, ask a few direct questions of any contractor you are considering.
Ask whether the same crew handles both the flooring and the renovation work, or whether one piece gets subcontracted to a different crew on a different schedule. Ask what the subfloor and moisture assessment looks like before a quote is finalized. Skipping this is one of the most common shortcuts in the industry, a point also covered in How To Prepare For A Successful Flooring Installation. And ask for a written scope separating flooring line items from renovation line items.
Shunnarah Flooring builds every renovation-inclusive quote around an in-home visit first. The team notes what the flooring reveals once the old material comes up, rather than treating an expanded scope as a surprise change order.
No. Many renovation-inclusive projects are a single room getting new flooring, fresh trim, and a coat of paint, not a full-scale remodel.
It depends on scope. Coordinating both under one crew usually moves faster than booking two separate contractors working around each other's schedules.
That is still the most common project, and it is handled exactly as it always has been. The renovation option is there only if the crew finds something during the work, or if you already want trim and paint done alongside new floors.
Cost depends on your project's actual scope. What bundling saves is coordination time and the risk of two contractors pointing fingers at each other over a scheduling conflict.
The same company manages both. The team walks your space together from the start, so flooring and renovation get planned as one project, not layered on top of each other.
Shunnarah Flooring is located at 813 Green Springs Hwy #156, Homewood, AL 35209. Your project might be new floors in one room, or floors, trim, and paint across the whole first level. Either way, the same team walks the space and builds one quote around it, as a one-stop flooring and renovation contractor for the Birmingham metro.
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