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Premium White Pine pleases this customer; she puts the leftovers every where

Posted by Christine Halvorson

We got a nice note and some photos from customer Lyn Sturtevant to show us the end result after installing her 10-inch Premium White Pine floor. The floor was delivered prefinished with Plymouth Pumpkin stain. She worked with our design and sales consultant Crystal Knowles for about a year to get this project done. Lyn wrote:

Hi Crystal,

I am sending you pictures of my floor taken at Christmas time in my new kitchen. You will notice a little shelf in the bathroom….the back of it is made up of extra flooring!! Also the bead and board in the bathroom is from Carlisle too. I thought you would get a kick out of seeing it. My desk top is also made of extra flooring. Hope you like the pictures. Enjoy the day, Lyn

Posted on February 15, 2010 at 12:04 PM in Customer Stories • (0) Comments
Pre-finished glued directly to concrete, a winner for this golf club

Posted by Christine Halvorson
One of the most common questions we get at Carlisle is whether or not one can put wood floors right over concrete. The answer is yes.

Here’s a stunning example of using our Cherry floors glued directly to concrete. This project, which was 1,500 square feet of flooring, is a private country club, the Rennaisance Golf Club in Haverhill, Massachusetts. We worked with CBT Architects of Boston on this project. The boards were pre-finished with an Amber stain.

Posted on February 12, 2010 at 12:13 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Building & Contracting • (0) Comments
Antique Hickory and WOCA white oil create custom look for J. Crew stores

Posted by Christine Halvorson

We thought you might be interested in seeing this new photo of a J. Crew store in New York’s Upper East Side. Yes, those are lovely clothes and those displays are all sitting on a Carlisle floor. We’ve been working with J. Crew for some time now. You can see much more about this in an earlier blog entry here.

Carlisle’s wide plank floors now appear in a total of five J. Crew showrooms, with a few more store designs currently on the drawing boards. The look you see here—-with its silver-gray tones—was created with WOCA white oil applied to Antique Hickory. The floor here was placed in a classic Chevron design, one of many options when considering patterns and parquets.

Posted on February 9, 2010 at 11:30 AM in Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments
Monday Morning Mailbag: Family room in Maryland benefits from prefinished Antique Hickory

Posted by Christine Halvorson

Homeowner Bruce Silver sent along these photos of the floor just installed in the family room of his Maryland home. The floors are done in our prefinished Antique Hickory, in 3- to 8-inch widths. The final coating is Amber.

Here’s what Mr. Silver wrote to us when he sent the photos:

The whole family is really thrilled with the new family room Antique Hickory flooring. The wood itself is so rich and warm and full of character. The installation was expertly performed, right down to the specially crafted shoe molding Keith made from a couple of leftover planks.

Many thanks to Carlisle Wide Plank Flooring and to Valued Homes!

Got questions about Carlisle’s prefinished floors? Check them out here.

Posted on February 8, 2010 at 07:52 PM in Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments
Shuttercraft custom shutters for authentic renovations

Posted by Christine Halvorson

Carlisle floors are often being installed in old house renovations and for good reason. They can provide a timeless, authentic look that seems unattainable with other types of floors. Custom made wood shutters by family-run Shuttercraft, Inc in Connecticutt are used in old home renovations for the same reason. The company can customize its red cedar shutters for both interior and exterior use and deliver them either unfinished, primed, or fully painted. Shuttercraft shutters were used in four rooms of the White House to achieve an authentic look.

According to Colleen Murdock of Shuttercraft, many of her customers are renovating homes in historic districts and are trying to match the exterior look and color of shutters than might have been on these homes two centuries ago. An endless variety of cut-out patterns can be created as well. The photo below shows an old shutter with a cut-out that was matched to create an entirely new one.

Builders and contractors also come to Shuttercraft for customized shutters on new construction. The hinges and holdbacks can be customized and the shutter sized to fit non-standard windows and to be completely functional, not just decorative.

For more information, visit Shuttercraft, Inc online.

Posted on February 5, 2010 at 09:56 AM in Home Decor • Restoration Projects • (0) Comments