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The beauty of bedroom hardwood flooring
When it comes to your bedroom floors, there’s nothing quite like the beauty of hardwood. While some prefer carpet for its softer surface and sound-dampening qualities, bedroom hardwood flooring brings a level of elegance and visual appeal that no other surface can provide. Wooden floors are much easier to keep clean as well – carpet will begin to show its age quite quickly and is more difficult to keep clear of allergens, pollen and dust. And bedroom hardwood flooring tends to add to a home’s overall value, since wood floors are the most prized surface for prospective homebuyers.
Carlisle Wide Plank Floors offers a broad selection of bedroom hardwood flooring. Our design consultants can walk you through the benefits of all types of flooring, including Birch vs. Oak or Oak vs. Maple wide plank floors, as well as solid vs. engineered floorboards and engineered vs. laminate flooring. We can help explore the possibilities of stain colors and outline the benefits of wood floors over vinyl flooring or tile floors. We can help you decide whether the hardwood flooring in the living room should match or contrast with your dining room, bedroom or nursery flooring. And ultimately, we can help you design a wide plank wooden floor that will be the perfect reflection of your sense of style.
Types of flooring for bedrooms
At Carlisle, we offer varieties of hardwood that bring warmth, beauty and elegance to any master bedroom, child’s bedroom or guest bedroom.
- Ash floors are highly dense and feature meandering grain with hues that range from cream to light blonde to rich nutty brown hues.
- Birch floors have varying grain patterns that range from highly figured flames to subtle swirls, with planks that offer intriguing combinations of color tones.
- Brown Maple floors feature subtle and consistent grain patterns with occasional swirls and planks that have rich, brown streaks along with striking variations in color and character.
- Cherry floors have subtle but distinctive flowing grain patterns and deep, glowing red hues that will darken as the floor ages.
- Hickory, one of the strongest of the hardwoods, features interesting grain patterns, lighter blonde sapwood and heartwood with rich cocoa browns and beiges.
- Red Oak floors have deep, salmon tones in the heartwood with tight, consistent grain patterns.
- Walnut offers rich mocha hues with surprising auburn undertones and complex grain patterns.
- White Maple has strikingly beautiful but subtle grain patterns and clean, lighter hues that offer a more neutral finish.
- White Oak has nutty brown, cocoa hues and dramatic grain patterns that range from simple and sleek lines to vibrant swirls.
- Rift & Quartersawn White Oak floorboards are fashioned with a special cutting technique that produces straight parallel lines in the grain with vibrant ray flecks radiating across each board.
Carlisle also offers many types of flooring options, including engineered and laminate flooring, to provide homeowners with a large range of choices to meet any budget and serve the needs of any interior design.
Frequently Asked Questions
What's the best flooring surface for bedrooms?
For most homeowners, the best flooring options for the bedroom come down to carpet or hardwood floors. Carpet offers a softer surface underfoot and has sound-dampening qualities, but hardwood will last longer and is easier to keep clean. Some homeowners prefer carpet in a child's bedroom but will opt for hardwood in the master bedroom, using area rugs to achieve a softer feel underfoot.
What is the best hardwood flooring for bedrooms?
Selecting the best flooring for a master bedroom or child's bedroom is a personal choice that typically comes down to the density and personality of the wood. Species like Hickory and Maple are among the most common flooring choices, as they are more resistant to scratches and dents than softer woods like Walnut and Cherry. Woods like Ash and White Maple offer lighter hues, while White Oak and Birch have slightly darker tones.
Can bedroom hardwood flooring be made with distressed wood?
Yes. Distressing a wood floor gives new floorboards the appearance of planks that were sawn and milled more than a century ago and that have been lived on for generations. Distressed floors instantly add a sense of warmth, heritage and personality to the interior design in any master bedroom, living room or dining room.
Why choose prefinished bedroom hardwood flooring?
Many homeowners prefer prefinished products when it comes to choosing a bedroom floor. When you choose a prefinished bedroom flooring option, your floor will be finished and sealed in our manufacturing facility before it's delivered to your home for installation. Because your bedroom hardwood flooring won't need to be sanded, stained or sealed on site, you won't need to go to the work of protecting your bedroom and closets from the mess of sawdust or the odor of stains and sealants.
What's the best low maintenance flooring?
When it comes to maintaining a wood floor vs. carpet, hardwood flooring wins every time. Wood floors can be easily swept and vacuumed to keep them free of dirt, allergens and debris. Cleaning spills and stains from wood floors is far simpler than removing them from a carpeted surface. And while tile flooring and vinyl flooring offer some of the same ease of maintenance, these surfaces don't provide the sense of warmth that many homeowners prefer in a bedroom floor.
Can bedroom hardwood flooring be installed with a pattern?
Yes. Patterned floors add a sense of elegance and visual appeal in any room, bedrooms included. Your Carlisle wide plank specialist can walk you through the differences between Herringbone vs. Chevron patterns, for example, or help you create a custom pattern for a one-of-a-kind bedroom floor.
Can a bedroom floor be made from engineered or laminate surface?
Yes. Engineered and laminate floors are ideal bedroom flooring options for rooms that are below grade, or where flooring is installed over a concrete subfloor or radiant heat system.
What makes Carlisle #1 in bedroom hardwood flooring?
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we specialize in creating masterpieces in wood that are the perfect reflection of your sense of style and beauty. Every floor we create is handcrafted with unmatched passion and purpose. Our artisan woodworkers take great pride in using time-honored processes and in their attention to detail, from the nuance of a hand-textured floorboard to expertly matching the exact shade of a stain. With extraordinary craftsmanship that is equally at home with rustic themes and fashion-forward interior design styles, we produce bedroom flooring options and other flooring choices that become the defining feature of any home – surfaces that will astonish and delight you for years to come.
Carlisle wide plank floors are produced with a commitment to sustainable forestry practices. By working with timber growers and sawyers who share our forest-to-floor ethic, we are able to preserve natural resources while sourcing the finest timber from American forests to ensure the beauty and quality of every Carlisle floor.