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Meet Carlisle folks at the Residential Design and Construction Show in Boston?

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• Christine Halvorson

 Anybody in the greater Boston area should be sure to come on down to the Seaport World Trade Center there April 1 or 2 and talk floors with us!  Public hours are 4 to 8 p.m., April 1 and 4 to 7 p.m. April 2.  Carlisle folks will be in booth #353.  Once again, we partner with our friends at Crown Point Cabinetry in providing floors for their booths and they provide cabinets for ours. You can read more about what happens at this really big show here. Homebuilder? Remodeler? This show is for you. You can meet and greet the folks who can help with your projects and get their industry-insider perspectives.  It’s not just exhibits, but workshops and special events. Some of those events are listed here. Admission is free, you’re in the happenin’ town of Boston and it’s springtime! What more could anyone ask?

Posted on Mar 22, 2009 AT 11:13 PM in News & Events • (0) Comments

Sometimes Carlisle floor projects evolve along the way

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• Christine Halvorson

Adam, from our Stoddard sales offices, sent along these photos one of his clients had sent of their project to install pre-finished floors in their kitchen.  The floor was all 8-inch nominal widths, with a 50/50 mixture of our Two Grades.  It was finished with Residential Amber Coat, with no eased edge or end-matching applied. The clients were Rona and Steven Goldfarb of West Orange, New Jersey, who had begun talking with Carlisle about their kitchen renovation last February.  Adam reports they first were interested in the Chestnut chevron pattern, but as they talked, the project evolved into what you see in these photos.  (Adam points out the Goldfarbs were some of the nicest people he’s ever worked with!) The floor was milled down at our mill in Swanzey, New Hampshire, and Adam sends a shout-out to them for doing such a great job. 

Posted on Mar 19, 2009 AT 08:59 PM in Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments

Heading to New York, by chance? See Carlisle at Architechtural Digest Home Design Show

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• Christine Halvorson

We’ll be in New York at the end of March and we hope to see you there. You can see our floors in our booth, but you can also see them on display with Crown Point Cabinets at the show.

Here are all the details:

Architectural Digest Home Design Show
Pier 94 - 12th Ave at 55th Street
New York City, NY
Booth # 960

Exhibit Hours
Friday, March 27 - Sunday, March 29
10:00am-6:00pm

You can order tickets on-line if you like. Members of the trades are admitted free with proper credentials, as are students of design.

Posted on Mar 17, 2009 AT 11:05 PM in News & Events • (0) Comments

Choosing a Carlisle floor to go with your cabinets

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• Christine Halvorson

Earlier here on “Surface,” we talked about how we partner with Crown Point Cabinetry, a company in our very own homestate of New Hampshire, in providing reclaimed woods they use to make some of their cabinets.  You can see these antique woods in action in cabinets here.  Talking with the Crown Point gang got us to thinking how cabinets and floors are inter-related, or not.  Here’s our design and sales consultant, Lynn Rafuse, on choosing cabinets to go with floors, and vice versa.

Q:  In a major kitchen remodel or new construction, would you decide the floors or the cabinets first?

Lynne: When customers come to us, we always tell them that if it’s at all possible, they want to choose their floors first. Of course, with some remodels or small projects, that’s just not possible. Or, they may be totally in love with their cabinets, but need new floors. But when possible, it’s best to go “floors first” because the floors are the largest “backdrop” in the space and the one most likely to remain longer than any other. It’s one of the biggest surfaces in your home. Almost everything else is more “changeable.”

Q: So, after that’s decided, what are the other considerations when matching cabinets to floors and floors to cabinets?

Lynn: Of course, it’s the style of their home. Is it a timberframe, an 1800s farmhouse in New England or a modern high rise in Chicago . This will somewhat narrow down the flooring choices (though these days, almost “anything goes” in décor; see below). Then there are considerations

Posted on Mar 16, 2009 AT 03:03 AM in Green Building • (0) Comments

Premium White Cherry really stands out in Pennsylvania home

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• Christine Halvorson

We just got these photos sent to us from McCloskey Builders, who were working with one of our Carlisle customers down in Pennsylvania.  The floor is our Premuim Cherry pre-finished with a Gingerbread stain.  Our sales rep, Lauren Power here in the Stoddard offices, helped with this project. Doesn’t it look gorgeous? We mean, the floor is fanastic, of course, but look at that house! (We just had to show you a glimpse of the exterior, even though we can’t take credit for any of it.)

Posted on Mar 11, 2009 AT 11:53 PM in (0) Comments