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Design Tips fromMonica MacKenzie Designs and This Old House on Historic Home Renovations

• Posted by
• Shanon Sterrett

This Old House magazine and television series has always been a great source for home renovation and resoration advice when it comes to old homes. 

Recently Monica MacKenzie, interior designer and general contractor from Hingham, MA was featured on This Old House, for her work at the historic Benjamin King House.  She called to share the good exciting news that among other amazing architectural details, Carlisle Wide Plank Long Leaf Heart Pine Floors were chosen for the new kitchen addition! 

Open the video and click on can watch the entire video but you will find the Monica MacKenzie series if you click on "Segment 4".  Gather some great ideas for your historic home renovation. (photo from http://www.thisoldhouse.com/toh/tv/video/0,,20552167,00.html)

Posted on Apr 09, 2012 AT 12:46 PM in Accessories • Beams • By Room • Kitchens • By State • Massachusetts • Carlisle Customers • Builder • Designer • Eyes On Carlisle • News & Events • Floors meant for Families • Home Building & Contracting • Home Styles • Restoration • Install & Finish: Stories/Information • Pine Flooring • Eastern White Pine • Reclaimed Flooring • Reclaimed Heart Pine • Residential • Restoration Projects • Showrooms • Stoddard, NH • Video Library • Wide Plank Specialists • Lynne Rafuse • (0) Comments

Get the Most Value When Remodeling Your Kitchen Part III - Choosing Kitchen Components

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• Patrick Kennedy

In the first two articles of, Get the Most Value When Remodeling Your Kitchen, we covered two main points, how to gaint he most value from your remodel investment, and important considerations for your floor plan you remodel. 

In this final segment, we will discuss the next consideration – Choosing Kitchen Components - determining the price-quality category of the kitchen components – cabinetry, appliances, plumbing fixtures, counter tops, tiles, flooring, lighting and all the individual items that create your kitchen.

Posted on Mar 30, 2012 AT 09:52 AM in By Room • Kitchens • By State • Pennsylvania • Carlisle Customers • Home Building & Contracting • (0) Comments

Hickory Floors shine in new Vail, Colorado Home

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• Shanon Sterrett

Kevin Crowder of our Denver, Colorado showroom recently received photos from a happy customer in Vail, Colorado.  They had purchased All 10" Wide Heirloom Grade Wide Plank Hickory floors. 

Since Hickory is a naturally lighter wood and the customer  wanted a darker finish Kevin worked with them to customize a stain to achieve just the right look!

Carlisle made it easy for the customer to achieve the look they wanted by referring them to a Preferred Installer.  Matt Farhm of Farhm Floors installed, stained and finished the floors on site!

 

Posted on Mar 06, 2012 AT 12:54 AM in By State • Colorado • Carlisle Customers • Homeowners • Doing Business with Carlisle • Hardwood Flooring • Hickory • Home Building & Contracting • Install & Finish: Stories/Information • Residential • Showrooms • Denver, CO • Wide Plank Specialists • Kevin Crowder • (0) Comments

Get the Most Value When Remodeling Your Kitchen-Part 2

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• Patrick Kennedy

In the first article, Getting the Most Value When Remodeling Your Kitchen – Part 1, we learned that to gain the most value from your investment you should expect to invest between 10-20% of the value of your home in your kitchen. In this segment we’ll discuss the next critical consideration – your kitchen floor plan.

Posted on Feb 28, 2012 AT 08:39 AM in By Room • Kitchens • Eyes On Carlisle • News & Events • Home Building & Contracting • Planning for your New Floors • (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