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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

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

Boston Magazine Features Carlisle Pre-Finished Walnut Floors and Tom Murdough of Murdough Design

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• Shanon Sterrett

This beautiful home designed by and for the family of Tom Murdough of Murdough Design is featured in the Fall 2011 Boston Design magazine, “Doing Wright” by Marni Elyse Katz!  We worked with designer Tom and builder Wood & Clay Builders to design this gorgeous Wide Plank Pre-Finished Walnut floor for an equally gorgeous home featuring in-floor radiant heat and conveniently located for family retreats on Squam Lake.

Posted on Feb 16, 2012 AT 11:15 PM in By Room • Kitchens • By State • New Hampshire • Carlisle Customers • Builder • Designer • Doing Business with Carlisle • Shipping & Delivery • Eyes On Carlisle • News & Events • Floors meant for Families • Hardwood Flooring • Walnut • Install & Finish: Stories/Information • Radiant Heat • Pre-Finished • waterfront • (3) Comments