Tuesday, May 29, 2012

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.  

Tuesday, May 22, 2012

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.  

Wednesday, May 16, 2012

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.