“Select” grade Hickory yields stunning floor in Ontario

A client of ours up in Ontario, Canada—Al Brouwer, president of Brouwer Construction—had these select grade Hickory floors installed in a new home he built up there. “Select grade” means that the boards were gone through again and again to get the most heart wood, which is the very center of the tree, included in each board. The heart wood ensures that each board contains the most dense and most beautiful vertical grain, and it will have maximum stability—it won’t cup or twist.

Then Mr. Brouwer took that select customization a bit further and he had us apply one or our handmade finishes to it. In this case he chose handscraped edges.

The floor boards are 6- to 10-inch wide and were finished on-site with Tung Oil. Mr. Brouwer wrote to report that the floors turned out to be the amber color he was seeking. He said at first he didn’t like the lustre—the level of shine—the floor ended up with, but once putting the furniture in place, the lustre toned down to a level he liked.

The process of choosing the wood for your floor, and then all the customizations that are possible with that particular wood, can seem overwhelmingly to folks when they first start thinking of installing wide plank floors in their home. We’ve tried to help each of our customers through the step-by-step process involved with a bit of an introduction here in We Make Buying Easy.

Posted on January 6, 2010 at 03:13 PM in Home Building & Contracting • (0) Comments

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