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Quality wood floors are a perennial favorite for installation in home and business settings. Adding warmth, beauty and elegance to every room, quality wood floors can be a central feature for any interior design scheme. Yet choosing the right floor is not a simple matter – from selecting the wood to choosing a stain color and deciding on texture, there are a large number of decisions that go into designing and ordering the right wood floors for your space.
Here’s a brief introduction that provides insight into the ins and outs of working with quality wood floors, and delivers an overview of the flooring options available from Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, the premiere flooring company for one-of-a-kind wood floors.
Quality wood floors are typically made with floorboards cut from hardwood trees and adhered to a subsurface like plywood or concrete slab. The strength of the hardwood provides a durable surface that can last for years. While new flooring can be fashioned from a wide variety of hardwood species, the most common varieties include Oak, Maple, Cherry, Birch, Walnut, Hickory, Ash and other species.
Wide plank quality wood floors are surfaces that use hardwood floorboards which are usually between 8″ and 20″ wide. The exceptional width of the boards allows the grain and personality of the wood to be more fully revealed, and the smaller number of seams between floorboards makes for a more spacious, less busy feel in the room.
Laminate flooring is made with manufactured floorboards that feature a bottom layer of fiberboard and a top layer with an imprinted design that can resemble wood, tile or any other surface. Laminate flooring is more resistant to scratches, dents, stains and sunlight, helping this flooring option to maintain its original appearance longer. On the other hand, laminate boards will never be mistaken for real floors, and you can’t refinish a laminate floor to prolong its life. Laminate flooring options are more suitable for installation in basements and over concrete slab or radiant heating. Laminate flooring installation is easier than hardwood flooring installation, and lets homeowners avoid the mess of sanding, staining and sealing a new hardwood floor onsite.
When compared to carpet, the other most common flooring surface, quality wood floors offer many advantages.
With high-quality wood floors from Carlisle, it’s easy to customize your selection to meet your design specifications and achieve a one-of-a-kind look that adds elegance and visual interest to your room. You can customize Carlisle wood floors by:
Choosing a wood variety
From light Ash floors and dark Maple floors to the warmth of Red Oak or the lustrous chocolate hues of a Walnut floor, you’ll have a wide range of hardwood and Pine options to choose from at Carlisle. Each wood species has its own personality in terms of color variation and the way that grain patterns play across the wood.
Deciding on structure
Carlisle quality wood floors can be ordered unfinished or prefinished. Unfinished floors are sanded, stained and sealed after being installed in your home or business. In contrast, prefinished Oak flooring, for example, is delivered to your site having been already finished at our facility. Prefinished floors help to make flooring installation faster and let you avoid the mess and inconvenience of sanding, staining and finishing a floor on site. Carlisle also offers engineered flooring options, which are ideal for installation below grade in basements or over concrete slab and radiant heating.
Selecting a grade
Our proprietary grades make it easier to get the aesthetic you desire. Our Original Grade floorboards reveal more of the natural character from the tree, with more knots, color and grain variation. Our Heirloom Grade minimizes these variations for a more formal look, and our Signature Grade is the perfect balance of Original and Heirloom characteristics.
Picking a width
Depending on the wood species, Carlisle quality wood floors can be ordered with floorboards to 20″ in width. Choosing a consistent width delivers a more uniform appearance, while mixing widths makes for more visual interest.
Texturing the floorboards
Quality wood floors at Carlisle can be textured with a variety of methods designed to give new flooring the appearance of surfaces that have been lived on for generations. Techniques include methods to reproduce the saw marks from early mills and the hand-scraped edges of boards that craftsman once straightened by hand. Several techniques exclusive to Carlisle serve to recreate the worn and weathered look of floorboards that have been lived on and walked on for decades, adding immediate warmth and authenticity to any space.
Staining the wood
Unlike many flooring companies that offer only a limited selection of stain colors, Carlisle provides a nearly unlimited assortment of possibilities.
Installing a pattern
Choosing to install quality wood floors with a pattern like Chevron, Herringbone or Versailles adds additional elegance and visual interest.
Our flooring company offers high-quality wood floors in 10 hardwood varieties, 3 Pine styles and a variety of reclaimed flooring options.
Since 1966, Carlisle has represented the very best in wide plank quality wood floors. We create extraordinary works of art for businesses, boutiques, restaurants, museums and exceptional homes throughout the world. Every Carlisle floor is truly a one-of-a-kind expression of the owner’s sense of style and beauty.
We handcraft wood floors in an extraordinary variety of woods, colors, textures and grades, providing unsurpassed service and expert assistance at every step. With Carlisle, the process of designing quality wood floors is truly a fun and exciting experience.
Our flooring company embraces a forest-to-floor ethic that helps us preserve natural resources. You can rest assured that our commitment to our craft and to sustainable forestry enables us to create custom quality wood floors that will grace your home or business for years to come.
