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

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• 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?

Posted on Jun 29, 2009 AT 04:17 AM in (0) Comments

A floor to match the boards of an old ship

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• 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.

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Posted on Jun 22, 2009 AT 03:39 AM in Green Building • (0) Comments

Surface—A publication of Carlisle Wide Plank Floors

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• 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 Jun 17, 2009 AT 03:40 AM in News & Events • (2) Comments

Brown Maple holds up to wheelchair pressure in this home renovation

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• 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 Jun 15, 2009 AT 03:39 AM in (0) Comments

Inspired by installing a Carlisle floor, one man now uses them throughout his spec home

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• Christine Halvorson

Laura, from Carlisle’s Denver showroom, sent along these photos of a recently completed project featuring 7- to 12-inch Heart Pine.  Seth, a person who installed the floors at the Denver showroom, fell in love with our dark Heart Pine at the time.  When he ventured into designing and building a home to sell, he of course chose the Heart Pine, as you can see here in his kitchen (above) and dining room (below).  This past spring, when the house was complete, he put it on the mark and it sold within three weeks. Dare we say it was the floors that did it? Well, maybe…or Seth’s beautiful design and craftmanship throughout. Seth has a degree in architecture, owns a floor installation company and now is designing and building—as you can see.

Posted on Jun 10, 2009 AT 03:38 AM in (3) Comments