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• Choosing a Carlisle floor to go with your cabinets

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

   

  Earlier here on "Surface," we talked about how we partner with Crown Point Cabinetry, a company in our very own homestate of New Hampshire, in providing reclaimed woods they use to make some of their cabinets.  You can see these antique woods in action in cabinets here.  Talking with the Crown Point gang got us to thinking how cabinets and floors are inter-related, or not.  Here's our design and sales consultant, Lynn Rafuse, on choosing cabinets to go with floors, and vice versa.

  Q:  In a major kitchen remodel or new construction, would you decide the floors or the cabinets first?

  Lynne: When customers come to us, we always tell them that if it's at all possible, they want to choose their floors first. Of course, with some remodels or small projects, that's just not possible. Or, they may be totally in love with their cabinets, but need new floors. But when possible, it's best to go "floors first" because the floors are the largest "backdrop" in the space and the one most likely to remain longer than any other. It's one of the biggest surfaces in your home. Almost everything else is more "changeable."

  Q: So, after that's decided, what are the other considerations when matching cabinets to floors and floors to cabinets?

  Lynn: Of course, it's the style of their home. Is it a timberframe, an 1800s farmhouse in New England or a modern high rise in Chicago . This will somewhat narrow down the flooring choices (though these days, almost "anything goes" in décor; see below). Then there are considerations

  Posted on March 16, 2009 at 01:33 PM in Green Building • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Carlisle: Proud to partner with Crown Point Cabinetry

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Many of you know that Carlisle collaborates with Crown Point Cabinetry--just up the road apiece from our Stoddard, NH headquarters, in Claremont, NH--to use our reclaimed wood in their lovely cabinets. In fact, they love to write about cabinets as much as we love to write about floors, and they do so over in their blog Wood Shavings. 

  Crown Point also helps Carlisle when we need to showcase our floors in a real setting involving a kitchen. For example, Crown Point Cabinetry is used in each of our Design Centers, pictured below. In the Los Angeles and Chicago centers, the cabinetry shown is Crown Point using our Antique Chestnut wood, and in Washington D.C., we've used another in Crown Point's line of premium custom cabinetry options.

  Take a look below and we hope someday you'll have a chance to visit us in our Design Centers. We also partner with Crown Point in creating our trade show booths. More on that in a few days.  

  Below, in order, are the Carlisle Los Angeles Design Center, the Washington D.C. Design Center and the Chicago Design Center--all using Crown Point cabinets.

   

  Got questions? Feel free to drop in here with your comments or questions by clicking onto "View or post your comments here" below.

  Posted on March 3, 2009 at 08:16 AM in Green Building • Home Decor • (1) Comments

• Carlisle reclaimed floors are part of the total “green” scene of LEED Platinum home in L.A.

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

   

  Dan O'Neil, our Flooring Design & Sales Consultant in the West Hollywood Design Center, sent us news of Carlisle's participation in the first conventionally constructed home in Los Angeles that is Platinum LEED Certified.

  The house, a custom 1920s Spanish style home, was designed to meet the highest level of LEED certification while still showcasing the fact that "green" building can be architecturally interesting in addition to technologically innovative.

  The floors Carlisle installed were all reclaimed Antique Oak with random widths from 3" to 9 " and the planks had been recovered from an old barn. 

  Richard Byrd, the developer of the house and CEO of Byrd Development, Inc. in Los Angeles, used Carlisle floors for all the wood floors in the house. Carlisle's Dan says he had met Byrd at last year's Super Bowl game and later Byrd's assistant tracked down Carlisle asa company that could supply the reclaimed wood floors they wanted for the house project. See more photos of the entire house, including more Carlisle floors, here.

  Construction of the house was featured on the Planet Green channel's show "Alter Eco," and our very own Dan O'Neil says he got to be on the set every now and then as well. (Sorry, he doesn't show up in this video.)

  A fundraising tour and party was held in December at the home to benefit the nonprofit environmental organization Global Green. 

  Here's Byrd giving a video tour of the house. He's moving pretty fast but you can catch a glimpse of those Carlisle floors all along the way.

  This is the first time Byrd had used Carlisle floors in one of his projects. Byrd said, "It was one of the sustainable products that didn't compromise quality, design or performance. I have found a lot of green products do not have the resiliency that traditional products have. Carlisle is not one of them."

  Posted on February 25, 2009 at 02:14 PM in Green Building • (0) Comments

• Tender Restaurant at the Luxor Hotel!

  Posted by Megan Sprague

  Tender is the new steakhouse at the Luxor Hotel in Las Vegas! Carlisle worked with the designers on the project. Here's what Jason Wolfe, Carlisle sales person from the West Hollywood office, had to say about his participation in the project. 

  "We all decided that to complete the restaurant’s masculine look would be to use our 400 year old Original Gray Exterior Barn Siding, random widths of 5-12” wide and very long boards (nothing shorter than about 10’).   The design team is based out here in Los Angeles (great ladies!) and my builder is located in Vegas. Pretty cool project… in a wicked cool setting."

  Here's one of Tender's ads

  

  Posted on November 5, 2008 at 11:39 AM in Customer Stories • Green Building • (0) Comments

• Customer Letter and FSC Antique Oak!

  Posted by Megan Sprague

  Here's a nice letter and photos that we received from client's of ours. They purchased our FSC Antique Oak floors and beams. 
  

  Hello,
  Wanted to let you know our room is done and came out really nice.  Attached are some pictures of the room prior to the furniture coming in. I installed some puck lights in the beams so light is cast onto the ceiling when activated.  One question my wife had is what do you recommend for general cleaning of the floors.  Any product that you recommend would be appreciated.  Thanks again for all your help in the entire process.  We are very pleased.
   
  Todd and Gina Neddermann

  P.S...We recommend weekly vacuuming (or sweeping) and a capfull of white vinegar to warm water for damp mopping!
  

   

  
   
  
   
  
   
  
   
  

  Posted on November 3, 2008 at 08:36 AM in Customer Stories • Green Building • (0) Comments

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