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• Think modern and traditional don’t blend? Think again

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  
  You probably couldn’t get more up-to-the-minute modern than this architect’s home, wouldn’t you agree? Yet, when it came time to choosing the floors to go under that ultra-modern furniture, this customer chose our Reclaimed Oak. According to our Dan O’Neill, who works out of Carlisle’s Carlifornia design studios, a thoroughly modern customer will often choose something like a stained concrete, or a tile, or even a mass-produced engineered flooring option. None of those would have worked here, Dan points out. The whole feel would have turned cold, he suggests. Wood that’s likely more than 100 years old really warms up the place, don’t you think?

  Learn more about our FSC Reclaimed Floor options

  Posted on August 23, 2010 at 03:06 PM in Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Not your average floor staining project

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  We just loved this innovation in floor staining, used on one of Carlisle’s White Oak floors, done in 6-inch wide planks. The floors were rift and quartered as well. This is the floor in a home builder’s own home, and the lovely pattern on the floor was created by Bill Corcoran of Neighborhood Hardwood Floors in nearby Nashua, New Hampshire.

  What do you think? So far these boards don’t have a finish on them. We’ll show you those photos a little later.

  Posted on August 10, 2010 at 03:04 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Pine mixed well with contemporary styling on the prairie

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  A homeowner in Portage, Wisconsin combined a contemporary Prairie-style designed home with original grade Eastern White Pine and the results are stunning.

  The six-inch wide planks ran right to the floor to ceiling windows. For the outside decking, the same width planks were used and aligned, thus giving the floor a continuous look right to the outside.

  The house used 1,500 square feet of the pine, done in Oatmeal Stout stain and finished with Tung oil.

  Here are photos of the whole stunning building project, courtesy of the builder.

  Posted on August 4, 2010 at 04:25 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• A perfect dovetail fit

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  When Donna Carrigan of Damariscotta, Maine, started Dovetail Designs in 2002, she had already been successfully designing kitchens and baths for over a dozen years, and she had dealt with many different companies and product lines.

  

  A Certified Master Kitchen & Bath Designer, Donna has done many medium- to high-end projects throughout Maine and even as far away as Florida. These projects often involve flooring decisions, and she is always happy to recommend Carlisle. When first introduced to Carlisle at a trade show, she was immediately impressed and soon chose to work with us on installing a new kitchen floor in her in-home showroom.

  “The room was a real challenge: an uneven concrete floor with base cabinets already in place and nothing was level,” notes Donna. “Yet Carlisle worked with a professional installer and it wound up going down amazingly fast. I had selected the sustainably grown Eastern White Pine in 13- to 20-inch widths, with antique cut nails because many of the homes I get involved with are of that historic period. Then I applied the Indian Summer stain with Antique Satin Tung Oil finish myself.”

  “I vowed when I started out, I was only going to work with the best of the best,” says Donna. “In addition to Carlisle’s great reputation and knowledge, their customer service is incredible. And I have not seen any other product that offers such consistent quality, beautifully finished and incredibly wide boards. Customers walk into my kitchen, look at the floor and say they had no idea the building was so old! Yet you can achieve a lot of different looks – from antique to modern – depending on your goal.”

  Dovetail and Carlisle. A perfect fit in more ways than one.

  Posted on June 29, 2010 at 05:47 PM in Home Building & Contracting • Home Decor • (0) Comments

• Really high expectations met with Hancock Center project in Chicago

  Posted by Christine Halvorson

  Getting 2,000 square feet of Walnut to the 92nd floor was definitely a tall order.

  Hagerty Construction, Inc. has historically been involved in several condominium renovations in Chicago’s towering John Hancock Center, but surely none represented a taller order than this one on the 92nd floor.

  To complement the killer view, Interior Designer Kara Mann specified a wide plank distressed Walnut floor, which eventually led Pat Hagerty to contact Carlisle.

  “We had checked a few local retailers, but either the products they offered or their pricing didn’t meet our needs. I went to the Carlisle website and the samples they sent were just what we were looking for. We specified unfinished Walnut in 8-inch widths that had received a surface treatment they call footworn.

  So how do you get 2,000 square feet of hardwood flooring up 92 stories?

  

  “Carlisle was very helpful because we needed maximum lengths of 10 feet in order to get the boards in the elevators. So we asked for 3 to 10 foot lengths, which they provided. The actual installation was a nail-down over concrete. We first put down a sound barrier, then used a layer of 3/4-inch plywood and nailed the flooring over that.”

  Of particular interest was the custom finish. The interior designer wanted a natural, unfinished look, but clear coats still darkened the wood. The final result was achieved after much trial and error with the application of a custom-mixed, subtle whitewash stain, which slightly lightened the Walnut while at the same time allowing the coloration and grains to fully show through. This was then topped with a clear matte finish that brought the wood back to its normal unfinished coloration.

  “Everyone was pleased with the results,” notes Pat. “In fact, the homeowner liked it so much he had some installed on the ceiling of his entryway.”

  

  Posted on June 15, 2010 at 04:47 PM in Home Building & Contracting • Home Decor • (0) Comments

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