Carlisle reclaimed floors are part of the total “green” scene of LEED Platinum home in L.A.
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Dan O’Neil, our Flooring Design & Sales Consultant in the West Hollywood Design Center, sent us news of Carlisle’s participation in the first conventionally constructed home in Los Angeles that is Platinum LEED Certified
The house, a custom 1920s Spanish style home, was designed to meet the highest level of LEED certification while still showcasing the fact that “green” building can be architecturally interesting in addition to technologically innovative.
The floors Carlisle installed were all reclaimed Antique Oak with random widths from 3” to 9 ” and the planks had been recovered from an old barn.
Richard Byrd, the developer of the house and CEO of Byrd Development, Inc. in Los Angeles, used Carlisle floors for all the wood floors in the house. Carlisle’s Dan says he had met Byrd at last year’s Super Bowl game and later Byrd’s assistant tracked down Carlisle asa company that could supply the reclaimed wood floors they wanted for the house project. See more photos of the entire house, including more Carlisle floors, here.
Construction of the house was featured on the Planet Green channel’s show “Alter Eco,” and our very own Dan O’Neil says he got to be on the set every now and then as well. (Sorry, he doesn’t show up in this video.)
A fundraising tour and party was held in December at the home to benefit the nonprofit environmental organization Global Green.
Here’s Byrd giving a video tour of the house. He’s moving pretty fast but you can catch a glimpse of those Carlisle floors all along the way.
This is the first time Byrd had used Carlisle floors in one of his projects. Byrd said, “It was one of the sustainable products that didn’t compromise quality, design or performance. I have found a lot of green products do not have the resiliency that traditional products have. Carlisle is not one of them.”
Posted on Feb 25, 2009 AT 03:43 AM in Green Building • (0) Comments
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