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• On Broadway, our Carlisle crews have beautified J. Crew’s decor

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  
  

  
  

  Carlisle has now had its floors installed in a number of J.Crew retail stores around the country and the photos below show the latest project, this time on Broadway in Manhattan. The floors and dressing rooms, plus the cabinetry, were all done in custom-graded milled barn wood. These boards were reclaimed by Carlisle from an old building. For just the perfect look, the old barn boards were sorted to use just the medium- to dark-toned ones, and they were also re-milled to remove any of the original saw marks from when the boards were first made into a building. For this Manhatten project, the boards were then given an Extra White Woca Oil finish.

  According to Peter Switzer in our Stoddard, New Hampshire offices, Carlilse has been working with the J.Crew stores for some time. Our floors can be seen in their Hampton, New York location, plus three others in New York City, with a fourth one soon to follow. (We’ll be sure to let you know when.) Our floors are also in J. Crew’s Malibou, California location. Here’s a peak at the J.Crew Women’s Store we did on Madison Avenue in New York—complete with Hickory in a herringbone pattern.

  Posted on July 10, 2009 at 01:16 PM in Green Building • (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.

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

• Really “green” home part of Portsmouth sustainability festival tour

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  

  Back on March 25, we told you about Cheryl Parker and Marc Batcheldor and how they are building one of the greenest homes in the country, over in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, not so far from our Carlisle headquarters. We're quite proud to be part of this project, which is now about to be revealed to the public in the Portsmouth Sustainability Tour. Cheryl and Marc's house is featured on the May 16 "Sustainability at Home"  tour featuring homes and organizations that are demonstrating sustainable building materials or other energy saving practices. Their home appears on this map as #7: The Zero Net Energy Home! Cheryl and Marc intend that their home will achieve platinum level LEED certification and their zero net energy designation means they will produce as much energy as they use. Their home is a 1,350-square-foot passive solar that they designed and engineered themselves. Each material they used in their home was considered for where it was manufactured, its chemical content and its sustainability--and that's why they chose Carlisle Wide Plank Antique Heart Pine, crafted in 4-inch to 10-inch random widths. March and Cheryl installed the floor themselves.

  If you're in the Portsmouth, New Hampshire neighborhood on May 16, why not drop in to the Sustainability at Home tour and see Marc and Cheryl's home up close?

  Posted on May 11, 2009 at 01:57 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• Carlisle adds new floors to Vermont’s historic Hermitage Inn

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

   

  
  
   

   

  We were quite honored to have supplied the floors for the Hermitage Inn in West Dover, Vermont recently. The top photo shows the dining room of the inn, and the bottom shows the pub area.

  The inn was looking for a floor that was historically accurate to the time period -- the structure dates back to the 1840s--and that was sustainably harvested to be in step with the inn's Green Initiative.  As Glen Renagan, our sales and design consultant, says, we were able to meet the inn's needs on both counts.  We did about 2500 square feet of the restoration project in Carlisle's 10 to 17-inch Old Growth Eastern White Pine and another 2,500 square feet was in the 8 to 12-inch Old Growth Heart Pine. Read more about how Carlisle's floors are sustainably grown.

  Posted on April 29, 2009 at 01:41 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• Come Earth Day, come over to Newburyport to meet Carlisle and Jewett Farms Studio

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  We're pretty excited to be partnering with Jewett Farms & Company and Jewett Farms Studio, a hand-crafted design studio based in Newburyport, Massachusetts, for an "Earth Fest" event that links great green companies and products with great green eats.  The trip to Newburyport is worth it at any time--it's such a fun, port city--so this event is bound to be icing on the cake.  From April 24 to 26, Jewett Farm is hosting an open house with a green theme.  Visitors can stroll through the studios to get ideas on period kitchen redesigns or custom office cabinetry (see here for just a sample), all the while being awed by the Carlisle floors underfoot. Jewett's products, like ours, are made form sustainably grown wood. We've partnered with Jewett since 2008 because the craftsmen there show the same attention to craft and detail as we try to maintain in our products.

  The Earth Fest events at Jewett will feature appetizers and drinks on Friday and Saturday evening, brunch and drinks on Saturday morning, and brunch and drinks on Sunday morning. The food will be prepared by one of the best restaurants around and will be all natural.  All the events are open to the public, but attendees should RSVP to .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address). 

  You might want to check out the Eco Collaborative, the Newburyport-based organization behind the Earth Fest celebrations that weekend.

   

  Posted on March 30, 2009 at 01:20 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

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