Hardwood Floors magazine features Carlisle’s Walnut in a spectacular rural Wisconsin retreat

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Christine Halvorson

The December/January issue of Hardwood Floors (the magazine of the National Wood Flooring Association) features a whole lot of photos and a nice story about one of our customers and his labor of love building a retreat for his parents.

The new home was designed by Tom Jones, owner of Thomas R. Jones Design in Trabuco Canyon, California, for his parents, Ray and Janette, as their vacation home in the north woods of Wisconsin. Tom set out to design a retreat that capitalized on a long family history in that area of the country and on Tom’s own childhood memories and the family’s commitment to ecology and the study of the natural world.

The new retreat is in the deep woods of Wisconsin, just south of Lake Superior, where Tom spent special times while visiting the area from his childhood home in southern California. The Jones family had deep ties to the territory, just south of Lake Superior, and Tom set out to capture them all in one way or another in his design.

The home’s interior is all about stone and wood—and the wood on the floors is Carlisle’s own wide plank Walnut. The overall shape of the home calls to mind the big barns of Wisconsin’s farmland, with the wide plank floors of the interior enhancing that effect.

Here’s what designer and loyal son Tom had to say about the Walnut floor: “It has a rustic feel, but not too much. We really like the dark color of the walnut as well. It sort of grounded the space.”

Tom and his father had Terry Nelson, owner of Terry’s Installation Service in Hayward, Wisconsin, install the Carlisle floor. Nelson commented that he doesn’t see a lot of homes with walnut used for the main boards of the floor. Usually it’s ash, oak, maple or hickory, while walnut is often used as an accent in strips and borders.

“It’s not every day that you walk in around here and see—especially in wideplank—a walnut floor,” he says.

Nelson used a blind-nailing technique to attach the floor boards to a subfloor above radiant heating. He also used a urethane-based construction adhesive during installation. “The adhesive helps hold the wood flat—keeps it from cupping,” he said in this article. “If it does move, it helps it come back to where it’s supposed to be.”

You can read a lot more about this beautiful retreat and its construction by clicking through to the article itself here, in PDF format. It features some fabulous photography from Hardwood Floors.

Hardwood_Floors_Magazine_Article.pdf

See many more beautiful photos of this home at this company website of son Tom Jones.

As you can see, Carlisle floors presented no problem above radiant heat systems.

Many more examples of using Walnut in various rooms can be seen here.

Posted on Dec 29, 2009 AT 02:25 AM in Hardwood Flooring • Home Building & Contracting • (0) Comments

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