Surface Blog

Our custom beams will have you beaming

• Posted by
• Jane Eklund

We can floor you, but we can also make you beam.

Yep, the puns are intended. What they’re intended to do is draw attention to the fact that while flooring is our primary focus, we we have a couple of other offerings, too, including custom beams. Whether you want to use them as a design element or as a structural element in a timber-frame building, you’ll love our beams, which we can provide in virtually any of the woods we use in our floors. They come with a variety of surfaces, too: rough-sawn, hand-planed, spoke-shaven, or hand-hewn with an adze.

If you want a look that’s historical, consider our Reclaimed Beams, which have been recycled from old barns and buildings. Like our Reclaimed Wood Floors,, they have the Forest Stewardship Council’s 100% Post Consumer Antique Reclaimed Certification.

Here are some examples of the hand-crafted finishes we can provide for your custom beams. And click here to learn more about our beams! We’re sure they’ll have you beaming!

Rough-Sawn

Hand-Planed

Hand-Hewn

Reclaimed

Posted on Oct 13, 2011 AT 10:30 PM in Green Building • Home Building & Contracting • Beams • (3) Comments

Rustic, eco-friendly floors your grandfather would love—and you will, too!

• Posted by
• Jane Eklund

Looking for a rustic, authentic reclaimed floor that’ll lay the groundwork, so to speak, for an eye-catching room? Take a look at Carlisle’s Reclaimed Grandpa’s Flooring. It has a rich, mellow feel, it’s not afraid to show its age, and it’s environmentally sound: Like all of our Reclaimed Floors, Grandpa’s has earned 100% Post Consumer Antique Reclaimed Certification from the Forest Stewardship Council.

Grandpa’s Floors are made from Longleaf Heart Pine flooring that’s been reclaimed from the portions of old buildings that have taken the most wear and tear over the years: old floor boards or structural floor joists that we carefully clean, inspect, and preserve with minimal milling. The result is a “reborn” floor whose original primitive beauty was once covered up by ground-in dirt, debris, and years of abuse. The aged blend of rich pumpkin and deep charcoal color tones is amplified by the original stains, watermarks, and saw kerfs. It’s our most unique and rustic floor.

Have a look at some examples!

Grandpa’s Floor billiard room, Stoddard, New Hampshire

Grandpa’s Floor living room, Keene, New Hampshire

Grandpa’s Floor hallway, Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Posted on Oct 11, 2011 AT 10:34 PM in Green Building • Rustic • (2) Comments

Carlisle floors on the go in AETHERstream Shop-On-Wheels

• Posted by
• Jane Eklund

Now this is amazing. And amazingly cool. Aether Apparel has just unveiled AETHERstream, its newest concept store. AETHERstream is a shop on wheels, built inside a 34-foot-long PanAmerica Airstream Trailer. It comes complete with a Carlisle Reclaimed Oak floor in 11-inch face widths.

Created by Paris-based designer Thierry Gaugain, Aether’s Airstream is open at 8207 West 3rd Street in Los Angeles through October. Stop in between 11 a.m. and 7 p.m., any day of the week. East Coasters will have a chance to shop at the AETHERstream, too. It’ll move to New York for the months of November and December.

Here are a few photos. Click here to read the Por Homme blog entry on the Airstream, and see more amazing pictures

Posted on Oct 10, 2011 AT 10:30 PM in Commercial Projects • Green Building • Hardwood Flooring • News & Events • California • New York • Reclaimed Oak • (0) Comments

Rich, complex, and dynamic, Walnut floors make a statement

• Posted by
• Jane Eklund

There are so many things to love about Walnut. With its warm, dark chocolate color, rich maroon overtones and intricate swirling grain patterns, it’s a spectacular choice for a floor, whether it’s left natural or it’s stained.

Carlisle Walnut is particularly striking because of its exceptional lengths, widths and heartwood content: the result of ideal growing conditions in both Ohio and Kentucky, where Walnut is sustainably harvested. But don’t just take our word for it. Check out photos of our Walnut floors. Here are a few to pique your interest.

Walnut living room, Chicago

Walnut stairway, Revere, Massachusetts

Footworn Walnut with tile inlay, Southpoint, Florida

Walnut dining room, Piedmont, California

Walnut living room, La Canada, California

Posted on Oct 06, 2011 AT 10:00 PM in Hardwood Flooring • Walnut • (1) Comments

Wide Plank Floors shine in commercial settings—part 3

• Posted by
• Jane Eklund

Our great-looking, long-lasting, and high-quality floors are as ideal for commercial venues are they are for the home. Here’s the third installment of sample photos of Carlisle Wide Plank Floors in high-traffic settings, including a restaurant, a retail clothing store, and a museum of history. Enjoy! And read the earlier blog entries here and here.

Hit or Miss Eastern White Pine, Tucci Restaurant Bar, Lake Oswego, Oregon

Hit or Miss Eastern White Pine dining room, Tucci Restaurant

Chevron Hickory, J. Crew, New York City

Antique Oak Museum Hall, Sugarland, Texas

Herringbone Antique Oak Lecture Room, Sugarland, Texas

Posted on Oct 02, 2011 AT 10:47 PM in Green Building • Hardwood Flooring • (3) Comments