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• New Windsor, NY kitchen gets makeover with Carlisle’s Brown Maple

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  We got a nice note from James Rashford, who recently installed Carlisle’s Brown Maple floor in his kitchen in New Windsor, New York. The floors in the photos below are all 7-inch widths and they were prefinished in the Carlisle shops with a clear coating. Mr. Rashford has a few square feet of these boards left over and is now considering doing another room. Here’s what he wrote about his project:

  “I’m very happy with the product. Definitely different from anything I’ve seen in most folk’s houses. The finish is excellent…a little dangerous though (ie. slippery) in stocking feet. The grains provide a lot of visual character, even my wife is pleased.”

  You can see more detail about Carlisle’s Brown Maple options here.

  Posted on August 12, 2009 at 09:05 AM in DIY • (0) Comments

• DIY project in Pennsylvania is stunning with Carlisle’s Antique Heart Pine

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Homeowners in Pennsylvania who recently installed their Carlisle Antique Heart Pine floor themselves were kind enough to send us these “before” and “after” shots of their project. This kitchen remodeling project included 300 square feet of our floors, in a country grade and 5- to 10-inch widths. They finished it with our Gingerbread stain and completed the look with transparent Tung oil. The customers have also installed Eastern White Pine in another room in their house. Photos of that project to come!

  Posted on July 31, 2009 at 03:21 PM in DIY • (0) Comments

• Down in Louisiana, Carlisle’s Eastern White Pine is a hit

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Here’s a homeowner who has installed 10-inch wide Eastern White Pine with hit-or-miss miling. The floor is stained with Bradford Umber and finished with Tung oil. This was completely a do-it-yourself project. The installation and finishing were done by the customer. He’s so happy he may be doing a bedroom floor soon. He writes:

  “We get complements all the time. People love it and can’t get over the fact that I did it myself. It’s funny. Some people just go on and on about it. We’re very pleased.”

  Posted on July 27, 2009 at 02:54 PM in DIY • (0) Comments

• A do-it-yourself project: beautiful Ash floors before and after

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  We’re thrilled when clients are kind enough to send us photos when they complete a Carlisle flooring project by themselves. Back in April, Carlisle’s Lauren Fanti got photos from her client, JoAnn Johnson, after the Carlisle Premium Grade Ash floors had just been installed. JoAnn had applied the Bradford Umber stain and the Tung Oil finish herself. Now JoAnn and her family are fully using their rooms and their new floors. So, here they are again, this time completely lived in. Client JoAnn writes: “Love the floors, as does everyone who sees them.”
  

  Posted on July 9, 2009 at 01:36 PM in DIY • (0) Comments

• At Carlisle, we hate problems, but we like happy endings

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  This is one of those happy ending stories. A Carlisle customer, a homeowner in Pennsylvania, had completely stained and tung oiled his floor his new floor. Then, he called us here at Carlisle because he had a problem. A pretty big problem, as it turns out. His lovely new floor was dotted with fuzz embedded in the tung oil! The fuzz was coming from the lambswool applicator he had used to apply the oil. When Gary Ryer, our design and sales consultant in the Stoddard offices, heard this, he suggested to the customer that he try washing the lambswool applicator in a washing machine and letting it dry thoroughly to help get the loose lambswool out of the pad. Well, that made the problem even worse! The customer got even more fuzz in the finish. When all was said and done, we learned that the customer had spent just $4 on the lambswool applicator and that perhaps it was of very poor quality. Gary Ryer suggested he purchase a better applicator pad for about $7. Well, that did the trick very well—but only after the customer and his wife spent about 13 hours scrapping off the fuzzy spots, giving the finish a light sanding, cleaning the floor and then applying the tung oil again with the good pad. The customer was quite reasonable about all this and says he really could see the difference in the two products! Happy ending and a nice looking floor. Here are the before and after pictures of this project.
  

  Posted on July 1, 2009 at 02:03 PM in DIY • (0) Comments

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