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

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• 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

Carlisle Preferred Installers to the Rescue ~ New Foundland, Canada

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• Shanon Sterrett

Carlisle Wide Plank Specialists work with clients everyday to design beautiful floors but we realize that the end result will only be as good as the professional who installs it.  We recently had customer experience the drama and disappointment of working with an inexperienced installer.  Carlisle prides itself on having great relationships with all our customers so when The Fehrs in New Foundland needed help they called us right away and we called in our team of experienced Carlisle Preferred Installers. 

Find out how a Carlisle Preferred Installer helped out tThe Feht Family and how a preferred installer can help your project.

Posted on Apr 05, 2012 AT 11:19 PM in Carlisle around the World • North America • Carlisle Customers • Homeowners • Carlisle Master Craftsman • Doing Business with Carlisle • Hardwood Flooring • White Maple • Home Styles • Contemporary • waterfront • Install & Finish: Stories/Information • Preferred Installers to the Rescue • Residential • Wide Plank Specialists • Scott Ogden • (0) Comments

Carlisle “wins over” Skeptical Maine Builder

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• Shanon Sterrett

Wondering why Carlisle Pine floors appeal to homeowners and profesionals over other suppliers? Well here's a great story to fill you in.

Glen Ranager, veteran Carlisle Wide Plank Specialist, shared a great story with us today from a skeptical builder in Maine who worked with a Carlisle customer about a year ago.  At the time, the builder had discouraged his customer from Pine, but also from the wider planks.

Being from Maine, the proclaimed Eastern White Pine state, he has long had issues with the qaulity of the White pine flooring available to him.  The flooring he got locally was never dried right, it was milled poorly or he had stability problems.  All of these can lead to big problems with installation, finish, and performance. 

But thanks to a determined Boston homeowner who just had to have Wide Plank Eastern White Pine floors in his Maine lake house, we won him over and he called us back to get more flooring!  

 

 

Posted on Mar 15, 2012 AT 10:24 AM in By State • Maine • Carlisle Customers • Builder • Homeowners • Doing Business with Carlisle • Home Styles • waterfront • Log Home • Install & Finish: Stories/Information • Pine Flooring • Eastern White Pine • Residential • Showrooms • Stoddard, NH • Wide Plank Specialists • Glen Ranagan • (0) Comments

A new look “drifts” into Carlisle’s NH Showroom

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• Shanon Sterrett

The term "Driftwood" has been heard throughout the design community for many years now, and conures up images of the weathered grey appearance that is the hallmark of ocean front homes, wood remnants found along the beach, lobster traps and the like.  Today, design professionals want to replicate this look for their clients, but who wants to wait for years to do this?

Our Stoddard, NH showroom was ready for a makeover so what better way to test out this look!  So our expert finishers at Carlisle created a perfect treatment to achieve the driftwood look on 10-15" Wide Red Oak planks installed in our showroom.

Are you looking for this for your project?  Check out our photos and tips to create your look!

 

Posted on Mar 08, 2012 AT 03:32 PM in By State • New Hampshire • Commercial Projects • Eyes On Carlisle • Home Styles • waterfront • Showrooms • Stoddard, NH • (0) Comments

A little convincing…and a beautiful Wide Plank White Pine Floor

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• Shanon Sterrett

  Beth Bromage and her husband write to us about the installation of our Wide Plank Eastern White Pine flooring, a floor they designed with Wide Plank Specialist Lynne Rafuse almost 4 years ago.  Although these were the floors of her dreams, she admits that it took some convincing of her husband to accept it, after all this floor is known for its softness, even the installer was a bit skeptical.  So much so that about three years after he installed the floor he knocked on the door to see if they were still “holding up”. 

I’d say they “held up” got even better with time wtih age.  This floor now almost 4 years old gave Beth “another layer of character” to her home, and just the look she wanted.

Posted on Feb 27, 2012 AT 02:16 PM in By State • Pennsylvania • Doing Business with Carlisle • Home Styles • Colonial • Country • Pine Flooring • Eastern White Pine • Planning for your New Floors • Testimonial • Wide Plank Specialists • Lynne Rafuse • (0) Comments