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• Antique Oak “shorts” were the answer to a complete renovation on a tight budget

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Laura Leier, our sales and design consultant based in Carlisle’s Denver design center, worked with customer Michael Wright who was doing a complete makeover of his home in Lafayette, Colorado. He needed new floors throughout his main level, stairs, upper hallway and a master bedroom and he needed done within his tight budget. Laura came up with a great solution with Carlisle’s Antique Oak “shorts” in widths of 3 to 7 inches. “Shorts” are just boards that a less than our usual eight feet length. In this case, customer Wright used boards that averaged 4 feet each. Then he used a Tung oil finish. Reports are that he was very happy with the results. What do you think?

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  Posted on June 29, 2009 at 02:47 PM in (0) Comments

• A floor to match the boards of an old ship

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  

  Sam Lindstrom, a homeowner and customer from Lakewood, Washington, installed his own Carlisle floor recently, with the help of his uncle.  He was kind enough to send along these "before and after" photos of the project, showing his once-tiled floors now turned into a beautiful Antique Oak. (“Before” is above and “After” is below.) We think the makeover works beautifully, don’t you?

  Sam came to Carlisle for his floors back in December and began the installation in February or March of this year. He wanted the Antique Oak to match an existing floor in the circa-1949 house that a previous owner had installed. That floor actually came from an old ship! The previous owner had taken the ship’s boards and had them cut into flooring. Reclaimed wood! We like that here at Carlisle.

  Here’s how we describe our Antique Oak:

  Taken from old timbers found primarily in barns along the Ohio River Valley, our Antique Oak flooring has an extremely fine and figured grain structure, referred to as “tigering.” This handsome Oak wood radiates warm and “nutty” English brown tones, giving each Antique Oak floor a distinguished Old World look. You can almost feel the events witnessed by this Antique Oak. It exhibits rift grain, occasional knots and nail holes, while retaining the rigid strength of new oak.

  Got a question for us? Write us here by clicking onto “comments” just below.
  

  Posted on June 22, 2009 at 02:09 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• Surface—A publication of Carlisle Wide Plank Floors

  Posted by Chad Cassin

  Carlisle Wide Plank Floors Newsletter

  Surface 2009
  Fall Vol. 3 Issue 1

  Surface 2008
  Summer Vol. 2 Issue 2
  Winter Vol. 2 Issue 1

  Surface 2007
  Fall 2007 Vol. 1 Issue 2
  Summer 2007 Vol. 1 Issue 1

  Posted on June 17, 2009 at 02:10 PM in News & Events • (0) Comments

• Brown Maple holds up to wheelchair pressure in this home renovation

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  

  Some times you need a really hard floor--like when wheelchairs are involved.  For this home in Cumberland, Rhode Island, the design firm Inclusion by Design, used Carlisle's 8-inch Brown Maple boards, which were finished at the home site with a Gingerbread stain and tung oil.   Inclusion by Design, based in Providence, Rhode Island, specializes in making homes and businesses accessible to people with disabilities and they take on some projects where renovations need to be made because of new, limited mobility. The Carlisle Mill in Swanzey, New Hampshire handled making this floor with the design work of Crystal Knowles in our Stoddard, New Hampshire offices. The Brown Maple is a great option for those who like the look of an older pine, but need to have a much harder floor.

  

  Posted on June 15, 2009 at 02:09 PM in Customer Stories • (0) Comments

• The Love of Wood

  Posted by Chad Cassin

  Posted on June 13, 2009 at 09:28 PM in Video Library • (0) Comments

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