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There’s nothing quite like the glowing red hues of American Cherry wood flooring. A favorite of fine furniture makers, American Cherry boasts distinctive, flowing grain patterns and deep, lustrous hues that darken as the hardwood ages. With time, American Cherry wood flooring will develop a burnished auburn color that adds inviting warmth to any room.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we harvest the timbers for our American Cherry wood flooring from the Alleghany Plateau, where shorter growing seasons and ideal soil conditions produce the rich heartwood that is so desirable for wide plank flooring. Our design consultants will work with you to explore all your options for creating a one-of-a-kind floor – from helping you choose the best wood for medium dark hardwood floors to exploring trends like diagonal hardwood flooring.
Read on for answers to all your questions about American Cherry wood flooring and to learn more about the beauty of wide plank floors.
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ExploreCherry wood flooring has rich, deep, red tones with subtle grain structure. The color of a cherry floor will darken over a time to a rich, burnished auburn color.
The biggest reason to choose Cherry vs. Oak or other hardwoods is for its beautiful, red tones. Cherry is considerably softer than many other hardwoods, a big consideration when comparing Maple vs. Cherry floors, for example. Cherry has a rating of 995 on the Janka wood hardness chart, while White Oak rates at 1360 and Maple at 1450.
Yes. Carlisle offers a range of distressing or texturing techniques that can make a new cherry floor look like one that has been lived on for generations. A hand-scraped hardwood floor, for example, recreates the gently rounded edges of boards that were once planed by hand. Hit or Miss marks reproduce the saw marks that were often left on planks cut at early sawmills. And Brushed or Timeworn techniques use wire brushes to reproduce the worn look of floors that are more than a century old.
Yes. Prefinished cherry floors are sanded, stained and sealed in the ideal conditions of our manufacturing facility and shipped to your location ready for installation. Our Carlisle Custom Coat® process enhances the rich character and beauty of a prefinished wood floor by combining time-honored techniques with modern technology.
Engineered Cherry floors are ideal for installation below grade, on concrete slabs or over radiant heat – situations where larger-than-normal changes in humidity might cause greater movement in a solid hardwood floor. Carlisle engineered Cherry floors are made with a thick veneer of American Cherry wood flooring that is glued to multiple layers of plywood substrate to create a floorboard that is more resistant to changes in moisture.
Whether you want a look that’s sleek, chic, or unique, we can provide a floor that fits your individual style.
The only thing that’s more impressive than our American Cherry wood flooring is the quality of our customer experience. From your first phone call or visit to a showroom through the design, production and installation of your floor, our design team will be right there to answer every question and attend to every detail. Your wide plank specialist will guide you through every option – from choice of wood and width of planks to color, texture and installation options. With Carlisle, you can be sure that your floor will be the perfect expression of your sense of style and beauty, and a welcome reminder of where you are – each and every time you return home.
When you come to Carlisle, you’ll be designing your American Cherry wood flooring with a company that has been a leader in wide plank floors for more than 50 years. The exceptional quality of our floors is made possible by expert woodworkers who spare no detail to make sure that every plank, every stain and every hand-scraped edge is perfectly rendered. With a Carlisle floor beneath your feet, you’ll have a surface that you will cherish for generations to come.
