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Design Tips to Give Your Wood Floor a Little “Character”
Wood floors make a stunning addition to any home or apartment. Installing a new wood floor is a major step toward beautifying your home and can be done in pretty much any room of the house. When it comes to interior design, the sky is the limit and there are plenty of ways you can […]
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A Wood Floor For Any Interior Design: Art Déco
Wide plank wood floors go with any style home.
From plush Beverly Hills mansions to rustic seaside bungalos in the Florida Key's, we've seen it all, and designed wood floors for it all too. Today, we're starting a new series on our blog that will show you just how versatile our floor…
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Key Ingredients to the Best Wood Floor Design
At Carlisle we give the term “wide” a whole new meaning.
But, the trend of using “wide” plank boards started long before Carlisle, when early colonists, along the Eastern Seaboard, would install wide eastern white pine floors up to 30” wide in their homes &nda…
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Wide Plank Pine Floors Stand The Test Of Time With Style
White Pine is America’s oldest wood flooring material. In both old and new homes alike, traditional wide plank pine floors continually draw admiring glances with a blend of imposing grains and subtle knots that creates an unmatched warmth and beauty which lasts through the years. Surprised?…
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Shades of Gray — The Hot “New” Neutral
According to the World Floor Covering Association, “gray tones are now one of the hottest options in hardwood flooring.”
Sleek and stylish, grays have become so popular over the last few years because they accentuate the grain and texture of a wood floor while not fighting with other…
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Flooring 101: Choosing the Right Width for your Wood Floor
We are continuing our flooring 101 series this week and discussing one of the most important aspects of your wood floor design – the width of the planks.
This is an important design feature that will determine how beautiful your floor will turn out, and you'll find that you don’t…
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Renovation Resolutions Part 4 – Brighten up your Colors
Today we're continuing our weekly focus on Renovation Resolutions for 2014!
And it's time to think color! In fact 2014 seems to be the year of color. Check out our spotlight on three popular colors that you might be seeing more of in 2014!
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Design Ideas for Stairs to Match your Custom Hardwood Floors
After you’ve spent countless month picking out your new hardwood floor, it’s time to start thinking about the hardwood stairs that you are going to be install.
After all, the wood floors are the foundation for the overall design, and you want them to be as warm and inviting a…
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Fashionable Flooring Ideas: Wood Floor Patterns
When it comes to selecting wood flooring for a residential or commercial interior you want to be fashionable!
One of the best ways to do this is by selecting a stylish wood floor that complements and elevates the overall design creating a more classy and timeless look.
A pattern wood floor…
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5 Common Misconceptions about Wide Plank Floors – Part 2
In Part I of our Series :”Diffusing 5 Common Misconceptions” we addressed two important topics – using wide plank boards over 5″ wide, and using non-quartersawn wood to build wide plank wood floors.
Today we are going to focus on three common installation scenarios where you may be t…
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“A Carlisle Floor is Well Worth the Wait”
Heart Pine Floors make for happy customers in Waltham, MA. We received a nice letter from a customer today raving about her Carlisle experience and the final results – her beautiful Wide Plank Heart Pine flooring!
After waiting for years to put her daughters through college, and wor…