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Barrineau Residence ~ Beautiful Heart Pine Floors from a DIY

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• Shanon Sterrett

We heard from a nice customer on our new Facebook page,  about some new Long Leaf Heart Pine Floors that she installed in her home.   When we saw her post we emailed her for some pictures and she was so nice to send them along!

Kristin and her husband worked with Wide Plank Specialist Lynne Rafuse to design some beautiful Long Leaf Heart PIne flooring for their home.   They were going for a rustic cabin look and Kristin said that the Heart Pine floors were a perfect fit.  Since Heart Pine is naturally a light floor, she worked with Lynne to select our Gingerbread stain, which when applied, would give the floor an older, and aged look.  

Kristin also reports that this project was a succesful DIY project!  Believe it or not about 25% of all Carlisle floors are installed by a Do-It-Yourself customer!

Check out these photos and learn why Long Leaf Heart Pine Floors might be right for you!

Posted on Apr 13, 2012 AT 01:15 PM in By Room • Kitchens • By State • Massachusetts • Carlisle Customers • Homeowners • Doing Business with Carlisle • Pine Flooring • Heart Pine • Wide Plank Specialists • Lynne Rafuse • (0) Comments

Carlisle Preferred Installers to the Rescue ~ Maryland

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• Shanon Sterrett

We recently told you about a customer in Newfoundland, Canada that experienced the frustration of an inferior installation and the help provided by a Carlisle Preferred Installer.  While we never wish this on any customer when we hear from customers with these stories we offer to help to however we can and when the Love Family in Maryland contacted Wide Plank Specialist Adam Whitney, of our Washington, DC showroom for help he knew right where to turn ~ Bob Humphries at Majestic Wood Floors helped the Love's repair and complete the Wide Plank Eastern White Pine Floors they so desired for their home.

Read more about the project and how a Carlisle Preferred Installer can help your project turn out just the way you want it!

 

Posted on Apr 13, 2012 AT 08:44 AM in By State • Maryland • Carlisle Customers • Homeowners • Carlisle Master Craftsman • Pine Flooring • Eastern White Pine • Preferred Installers to the Rescue • Residential • Showrooms • Washington, DC • Testimonial • Wide Plank Specialists • Adam Whitney • (0) Comments

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 “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 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