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When choosing flooring for a dining room, hardwood surfaces offer lots of benefits over alternative flooring options. A hardwood floor immediately adds elegance, warmth and beauty to any room. Hardwood dining room flooring options can support any decor, from formal and traditional to contemporary and casual to rustic and antique. Hardwood flooring is far easier to clean and maintain than carpet, and it will last much longer as well. And hardwood dining room flooring adds to the value of the home, since wood floors are among the most popular surfaces for prospective homebuyers.
You’ll find an amazing range of dining room flooring options at Carlisle Wide Plank Floors. As a leader in quality wood flooring for more than 50 years, we offer wide plank floors that are handcrafted one plank at a time to create stunning works of art in wood. Our design consultants can help you explore the personality of Cherry vs. Oak wood floors or the density of Birch vs. Maple surfaces. We can also walk you through your choices for color, wood grade, patterns, texture and solid vs. engineered floorboards. When you choose hardwood dining room flooring from Carlisle, you’ll be living on a one-of-a-kind surface that perfectly matches your vision for your home.
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ExploreChoosing the best type of flooring for a dining room is a matter of personal taste, type of decor and patterns of use. For example, families with young children and pets may want to avoid carpet, as spills and stains are far harder to clean up. Ceramic tile or porcelain tile is easier to maintain, but tile flooring may feel too cold to many homeowners. Hardwood surfaces are an excellent option for dining room flooring, as they can support both formal and casual interior designs and are easier to maintain than carpet. Hardwood flooring also adds warmth and visual appeal to any room.
Luxury vinyl can be an excellent flooring option for new floors in a dining room. Luxury vinyl flooring is a waterproof surface that can resemble a hardwood floor, but one that is stain-resistant and less expensive on average than hardwood. Luxury vinyl can be installed over concrete, radiant heating systems, and surfaces below grade – in other words, locations where hardwood floors may tend to cup or warp. Like a laminate floor (another type of flooring possibility for dining rooms), luxury vinyl is made with a backing layer. a design layer that can be imprinted with any image (such as real wood), and a wear layer that protects the image layer. Luxury vinyl planks resemble hardwood planks, while luxury vinyl tile (LVT) replicates the look of stone or ceramic tiles. Carlisle offers premium luxury vinyl flooring in the Torlys Everwood collection.
Wide plank flooring lends a stunning and distinctive appearance to any dining room, as well as living rooms, bedrooms and family rooms. In a wide plank hardwood floor, the floorboards may be 5" to 20" in width and up to 12' long. As a result, the grain, the natural hues and the personality of the hardwood are allowed to shine through far more than with standard commercial flooring, which is typically less than 3" wide and 4' long. Since there are fewer seams in the floor, a wide plank floor will appear far less busy and will help any room feel more spacious. Ultimately, wide plank dining room flooring makes a strong visual statement that will delight and astonish your family and your guests.
The choice of species for a dining room floor can be based on the appearance and personality of the wood as well as its durability. Denser woods like Hickory and Maple are more resistant to scratches and dents, making them somewhat more durable than softer hardwoods or pine floors. Cherry floors have lustrous red tones while Ash floors have cleaner, lighter and neutral hues that provide an open canvas on which to design a dining room interior.
Solid and engineered wood are both great flooring options for a dining room. Where solid floorboards are cut from a single piece of hardwood, engineered floorboards are made with multiple layers of material that are glued to a top layer of hardwood. Engineered boards are more resistant to moisture and changes in relative humidity – they tend to perform better than solid wood floors when used as bathroom, mud room or sunroom flooring, for example.
Prefinished dining room flooring is a surface that is sanded, stained and sealed at our manufacturing facility before it's shipped to your home. A prefinished floor can be immediately installed once it's delivered – you can completely skip the mess of sawdust and the odor of stains and sealants in your home.
Yes. Dining rooms are among the most popular places for parquet floors, since patterns add a sense of luxury and visual interest to any room. At Carlisle, you can work with a wide plank specialist to explore the differences in Herringbone vs. Chevron patterns, for example, or to design your own pattern for any wide plank surface.
Whether it's dining room, kitchen, living room or home office flooring, cleaning your wide plank wood floors is relatively quick and easy. Sweeping and vacuuming hardwood floors will help to keep them free of dirt and debris that can cause scratches when walked on. To remove stubborn dirt, we recommend lightly mopping with a mild solution of water and white vinegar – it's a green solution that is remarkably effective as well.
Carlisle customers know that the quality of our wide plank dining room flooring is matched only by the attentiveness of our customer service. From your first inquiry or visit to a showroom through the design, delivery and installation of your wood floor, our wide plank specialists will travel the entire journey with you, offering expert guidance and answers to all your questions. If you’re 100% sure about the hardwood floor you want, we’ll work to make sure you get everything you desire in your new floor. And if you’re just exploring all the possibilities, we’ll help you select the dining room flooring options – including the wood, grade, color and finish – that will create the perfect floor for your space.
From dining room flooring to hardwood flooring in the living room or bedroom, every Carlisle hardwood floor is a masterpiece that is the perfect reflection of the homeowner’s sense of style and beauty. Our artisan woodworkers tend to every detail as they craft each new floor with passion, pride and purpose. They know that your Carlisle floor is designed to bring warmth and beauty to your life at home, so every detail is important. Whether it’s a product from our curated collections or a custom-designed surface that matches your unique vision, your Carlisle wood floor will be produced one plank at a time to create a surface that becomes a defining feature of your home.
