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Hardwood floors offer lots of advantages over carpet and tile when choosing flooring for your living room. The timeless beauty of hardwood living room flooring is undeniable – it’s why hardwood is the most sought-after type of flooring among homeowners and homebuyers. Compared to carpet, wood floors are easier to clean and to keep free of allergens like pollen and dust. Hardwood surfaces offer more warmth than tile floors and are easier on bare feet as well.
When choosing a type of hardwood for living room flooring, wide plank floorboards can help to create a stunning floor that will be the central design feature of any home. Wide plank floors use floorboards that are up to 20″ wide and 12′ long, creating far fewer seams in the floor for a calmer and more elegant look. Wide plank floorboards also let the color, grain and character of the wood shine through, giving the floor more personality.
When you’re ready to explore wide plank options for living room flooring, Carlisle design consultants are ready to help. Our specialists can walk you through all your options for types of wide plank floors – from solid Ash to engineered Oak to dirty top Pine flooring. Our team can help you determine the best wide plank treatment for living room flooring, kitchen floors, basement surfaces and wood stair treads. And we’ll show you all the possibilities for creating a one-of-a-kind surface that will astonish and delight you every time you enter the room.
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ExploreWhile the best flooring for a living room is a matter of personal taste, hardwood floors offer lots of advantages over other types of flooring. Wood floors are easy to clean and maintain, and they'll last much longer than carpet. Because they are prized by most homeowners and homebuyers, wood floors tend to add more value to a home. And hardwood living room flooring introduces a sense of timeless beauty to a space, increasing the visual appeal and elegance of your living room.
There's no hard and fast rule about whether floors in adjacent rooms should match or not. Using the same type of wood floors will provide a consistent appearance and a natural flow between rooms, while choosing different types of wood will help each room establish its own personality and decor.
Engineered floors are made with boards that feature a top layer of hardwood and multiple layers of a backing material that are glued together. This type of construction is more resistant to moisture and changes in relative humidity, making engineered floors ideal for bathrooms, mud rooms and sunroom flooring. Engineered floorboards are often used when installing living room flooring over radiant heating systems or on concrete slab.
Yes. Nearly all Carlisle floors can be ordered with a prefinished option. With prefinished Maple flooring, for example, your Maple floor will arrive at your home already sanded, stained and sealed, accelerating the installation and letting you avoid the mess and odor of finishing the floor on site.
Distressed floors are created by using techniques that texture new floorboards to give them the appearance of old or antique planks. Craftsmen may add saw marks or rough spots to the board to give them the appearance of planks that were produced at early sawmills. Or they may use wire brush techniques to wear away the grain, giving the boards the look of planks that have been walked on for generations. Distressed flooring adds an immediate sense of character, authenticity and heritage to a room at a fraction of the cost of salvaged hardwood flooring.
A hardwood floor is made with planks cut from solid hardwood. A laminate floor is made with a layer of synthetic material – usually melamine resin or fiber board – on which an image layer is glued. The image layer can reproduce the look of wood, stone, tile or any material. A clear protective layer covers the image layer to protect it from wear.
Designing beautiful living room flooring with Carlisle is simple, thanks to our knowledgeable wide plank specialists who can offer expert guidance at every point in the process. After extensive conversations to define your design vision for your space, our consultants will walk you through all the choices in wood, grade, structure, color, texture and pattern to help you choose a floor that will be a defining visual element of your home. Customers often remark that the process of designing and creating their hardwood floor was nearly as exciting and pleasurable as eventually living on it.
For more than 50 years, Carlisle woodworkers have been creating America’s highest-quality wood floors one plank at a time. Carlisle wide plank floors are handcrafted from the soundest and most reliable timber and the finest raw materials available. Our reputation as a leader in wide plank flooring is built on our unwavering attention to detail – from the nuance of a hand-textured board to our ability to perfectly match a shade of stain. We collaborate with every client to create a custom-made floor that perfectly reflects the homeowner’s sense of style and that will be a defining feature of the home for years to come.
As we source the timber for our hardwood floors, we work with a carefully selected group of growers and sawyers who uphold the highest standards of sustainability. Our forest-to-floor ethic enables us to preserve natural resources, strategically procuring timber from the best areas of the country while dramatically reducing waste by avoiding mass production and crafting one floor at a time.
