Wide Plank Reclaimed Wood Floors for Traditional Style

A Choice grade reclaimed heart pine floor is perfect for more traditional style homes.  The tight grain and warm colors compliment the more ornate wooden furniture, antique artwork and fixtures found in this home.  This wide plank random width floor was finished on-site with tung oil.  The exposed tavern grade beams, also cut from antique reclaimed heart pine, provide a perfect contrast the more formal floor by introducing even more character (knots, nail/bolt holes, color variation and checks) to this gorgeous home.  

Wide Plank Floors work well with Contemporary Style

The contemporary look utilizes a wide variety of design elements; ranging from creatively shaped and placed windows to furniture pieces made from wood, glass, metal and polymer products.  Wanting to keep a cleaner look, this customer selected our Colonial heart pine.  With high heart content and minimal knot content; our wide plank Colonial heart pine was the perfect selection for this contemporary style home.  Our wide plank heart pine is available both prefinished in hand-rubbed oil and unfinished.  Regardless of your style, “Authentic Pine Floors” are created by our craftsmen to suit your personal taste.  

Prefinished Wood Floors

We all cringe at that first big scratch in the new wood floor; mainly because of what it will take to fix.  With polyurethane, you are refinishing the entire floor just to fix that one small scratch. We have been working with Woca Oil for a numbers of years; seeing the interest in oil finishes rise each year.  While we’d love to take all the credit for our adoption of the oil finish; most of the input used in the decision came from you, our customers.  Pine is one of the few woods that look good with some natural wear & tear.  Using a finish that embraces that character rather than fighting to hide it just seems logical.  Oil finishes provide a warmer, more natural finish and eliminates the sheen of polyurethane.    An oil finish allows you to touch-up/maintain small areas as needed.  Oiled wood floors also should never be re-sanded or re-finished.  Treat your oiled pine floors like a piece of antique furniture.  Just apply more oil & embrace the character. 

Grandpa Mac

Well-polished with lots of character, just like Grandpa Mac; this new prefinished wood floor exemplifies a unique option for wood flooring.  Made from reclaimed pine, it is prefinished and available in widths up to 10 ½”.  The finishing is done by hand using a multi-stepped process that gives the floor a wonderful patina and emphasizes the natural character of the reclaimed wood.  As always, the finish we use contains zero VOC’s.  Give us a call to see samples of this great wood floor named after an awesome man.   

Ping pong anyone?

We just finished our gorgeous new showroom “table.”  Technically it is to be used for measuring plans but as you can see we’ve made a few modifications.  And yes, we are offering discounts for stopping by the gallery to give us a good game of ping pong!  We selected choice grade antique/reclaimed heart pine for the top.  The legs are poplar, reclaimed from the barrel rails in the Old Crow Distillery.  We left the legs “as is,” offering a fantastic contrast to the finished/formal look of the top.  We’ve had a few nice offers on this one but we’re just not ready to give up our daily ping pong game yet, but we’ll be happy to build one just for you!

Reclaimed Wood Compliments any Design Style

Reclaimed wood floors compliment any design style.  Our friends, Brett and Amy Tulacro with Tulacro Development in Bethesda, MD, recently completed a remodel of a Georgia Colonial style home and used our Old Dirty Goat reclaimed wood floors. 

Amy describes the house, “It has a retro feel with the floors but the style is definitely more clean and contemporary with an industrial edge. The floors really warm it up and I have to say that they inspired the entire project as we worked around the colors. The kitchen cabinets are cherry painted black and distressed so the warm cherry wood comes through which ties them into the floor. The hall walls were painted a warm white to showcase the floors and be a backdrop for them.  We LOVE them and want to thank you all so much for making them for us. They are truly amazing!!!”

Amy was a lot of fun to work with & I think she did an awesome job on this home.  The color variation & character of these wide plank reclaimed floors really look great. 

Wood Floor Finishes

There are tons of options out there for wood floor finishes but we are hooked on one we discovered a few years ago.  Would you finish your new floor with vegetable oil?  Sounds crazy right?  Not so crazy if you’re looking for a 0% VOC, natural-looking finish (low sheen) that is easy to touch-up and maintain.  Our Authentic Oil finish is based on vegetable oils with non-aromatic hardeners.  The natural oil finish penetrates the pores of the wood and literally seals the wood from within.  Unlike with polyurethane, small scratches and dents from regular wear and tear are far less noticeable with the low/natural sheen of a natural oil finish.  Instead of screening/sanding the entire floor just to fix a small area, you can touch-up only the areas where it is needed.  We use the natural oil finish on all our prefinished products which also makes a great option if you’re ready to refinish your existing floors.  If you are ready to stop worrying about your wood floors and start living on your floors, give us a call to discuss a natural oil finish.