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Elements Architecture offers Design and Remodeling Tips

• Posted by
• Shanon Sterrett

Wide Plank Specialist, Peter Switzer, has worked with Bill Scholtens of Elements Architecture, Inc in Chicao, Illinois have worked together now for over 5 years.  Two of the homes they have collaborated on have been published this year!

 

Renovation Styles Magazine, Winter 2011 ~ Disbrow Residence, Winnetka, Illinois

 * Learn how to work with an open floor plan

 * Learn how to create natural boundaries when you don't have walls

 * Why move when you make the space just the way you want it!

 * Follow Before and After Floor Plans!

 

 

Chicago Home & Garden, July/August 2011 ~ Emory Residence, Chicago, Illinois

 * Find out how Bill turned an iconic 19th century rowhouse into a 21st century home

 * Find out how you can "take back the light" and bring natural light into your home

 * Learnabout Green design tips and efforts toward LEED for Home: Platinum rating!

 * Explore the use of beautiful colors in every room

 

Posted on Nov 17, 2011 AT 02:18 AM in By State • Connecticut • Illinois • Carlisle Customers • Architect • Designer • Doing Business with Carlisle • Eyes On Carlisle • News & Events • Green Building • LEED • Hardwood Flooring • Walnut • Home Styles • Contemporary • Showrooms • Chicago, IL • Wide Plank Specialists • Peter Switzer • (0) Comments

Our custom beams will have you beaming

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• Jane Eklund

We can floor you, but we can also make you beam.

Yep, the puns are intended. What they’re intended to do is draw attention to the fact that while flooring is our primary focus, we we have a couple of other offerings, too, including custom beams. Whether you want to use them as a design element or as a structural element in a timber-frame building, you’ll love our beams, which we can provide in virtually any of the woods we use in our floors. They come with a variety of surfaces, too: rough-sawn, hand-planed, spoke-shaven, or hand-hewn with an adze.

If you want a look that’s historical, consider our Reclaimed Beams, which have been recycled from old barns and buildings. Like our Reclaimed Wood Floors,, they have the Forest Stewardship Council’s 100% Post Consumer Antique Reclaimed Certification.

Here are some examples of the hand-crafted finishes we can provide for your custom beams. And click here to learn more about our beams! We’re sure they’ll have you beaming!

Rough-Sawn

Hand-Planed

Hand-Hewn

Reclaimed

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 AT 10:30 PM in Green Building • Home Building & Contracting • Beams • (3) Comments

Rustic, eco-friendly floors your grandfather would love—and you will, too!

• Posted by
• Jane Eklund

Looking for a rustic, authentic reclaimed floor that’ll lay the groundwork, so to speak, for an eye-catching room? Take a look at Carlisle’s Reclaimed Grandpa’s Flooring. It has a rich, mellow feel, it’s not afraid to show its age, and it’s environmentally sound: Like all of our Reclaimed Floors, Grandpa’s has earned 100% Post Consumer Antique Reclaimed Certification from the Forest Stewardship Council.

Grandpa’s Floors are made from Longleaf Heart Pine flooring that’s been reclaimed from the portions of old buildings that have taken the most wear and tear over the years: old floor boards or structural floor joists that we carefully clean, inspect, and preserve with minimal milling. The result is a “reborn” floor whose original primitive beauty was once covered up by ground-in dirt, debris, and years of abuse. The aged blend of rich pumpkin and deep charcoal color tones is amplified by the original stains, watermarks, and saw kerfs. It’s our most unique and rustic floor.

Have a look at some examples!

Grandpa’s Floor billiard room, Stoddard, New Hampshire

Grandpa’s Floor living room, Keene, New Hampshire

Grandpa’s Floor hallway, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Posted on Oct 11, 2011 AT 10:34 PM in Green Building • Rustic • (2) Comments

Carlisle floors on the go in AETHERstream Shop-On-Wheels

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• Jane Eklund

Now this is amazing. And amazingly cool. Aether Apparel has just unveiled AETHERstream, its newest concept store. AETHERstream is a shop on wheels, built inside a 34-foot-long PanAmerica Airstream Trailer. It comes complete with a Carlisle Reclaimed Oak floor in 11-inch face widths.

Created by Paris-based designer Thierry Gaugain, Aether’s Airstream is open at 8207 West 3rd Street in Los Angeles through October. Stop in between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., any day of the week. East Coasters will have a chance to shop at the AETHERstream, too. It’ll move to New York for the months of November and December.

Here are a few photos. Click here to read the Por Homme blog entry on the Airstream, and see more amazing pictures

Posted on Oct 10, 2011 AT 10:30 PM in Commercial Projects • Green Building • Hardwood Flooring • News & Events • California • New York • Reclaimed Oak • (0) Comments

Wide Plank Floors shine in commercial settings—part 3

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• Jane Eklund

Our great-looking, long-lasting, and high-quality floors are as ideal for commercial venues are they are for the home. Here’s the third installment of sample photos of Carlisle Wide Plank Floors in high-traffic settings, including a restaurant, a retail clothing store, and a museum of history. Enjoy! And read the earlier blog entries here and here.

Hit or Miss Eastern White Pine, Tucci Restaurant Bar, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Hit or Miss Eastern White Pine dining room, Tucci Restaurant

Chevron Hickory, J. Crew, New York City

Antique Oak Museum Hall, Sugarland, Texas

Herringbone Antique Oak Lecture Room, Sugarland, Texas

Posted on Oct 02, 2011 AT 10:47 PM in Green Building • Hardwood Flooring • (3) Comments