Carlisle’s foot-worn distressed Walnut wide planks goes sky high in Chicago’s Hancock Tower

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Christine Halvorson

Our Sales and Design consultant Gary Ryer sent along this photo as a kind of “sneak peak” into an upcoming magazine spread that will include this above-the-clouds flooring project. We’re talking the 92nd floor of Chicago’s Hancock Tower.

It may be our wide plank Walnut that already has a lot of old-world character to it, but this apartment still manages to pull off a pretty swank metro feel to it, don’t you think? (That’s not surprising to us, but we get a lot of questions about putting wood floors in modern buildings.)

The floor shown here is an 8-inch, select grade Walnut, that has been “distressed” with a foot-worn feel. The boards were then finished with a clear matte finish that was applied after installation.
We’re pretty excited about the project and, apparently, so was the owner—he’s already ordered another 3,000 square feet for a couple more units he bought next door to this one!

Here’s another example of a footworn Walnut, using a fancy tile inlay technique and more about the footworn distressed style.

And another way you can see how the traditional and the modern can blend pretty well in a variety of settings.

Posted on Dec 29, 2009 AT 01:31 PM in Hardwood Flooring • (0) Comments

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