Game Room Flooring

Hardwood options for game room flooring

When you’re selecting a floor for your game room, the choice often comes down to carpet vs. hardwood or a tile floor vs. wood floor. Carpet provides a soft surface and tile offers great durability, but nothing beats a hardwood floor for visual appeal, authentic elegance and inviting warmth.

For game rooms in the basement, you can use engineered floors that are more resistant to higher levels of moisture and relative humidity. And for a truly stunning surface for your game room flooring, consider a wide plank floor. Made with solid or engineered floorboards that are much wider than standard commercial flooring, wide plank game room flooring can help create a surface that’s a true pleasure to look at and live on.

At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we offer lots of wide plank game room flooring options. From a wide choice of species to an unlimited selection of stains, you’ll find everything you need at Carlisle to create the perfect game room flooring for your home.

What’s the best type of game room flooring?

The best type of game room flooring is a matter of location, use and personal preference. While some prefer the soft feel of carpet and others appreciate the longevity of a tile floor, a hardwood floor in a game room offers a perfect balance of warmth, ease of maintenance, durability and longevity. For floors installed below grade, engineered hardwood floors can improve resistance to moisture and humidity.

What’s the best wood for game room flooring?

Because game room flooring can take a beating, some homeowners prefer denser woods like Hickory and Maple that won’t show scratches and dings as easily. Others prefer the rustic warmth and lived-in look of softer woods like Pine or Cherry.

A wide choice of wood for your game room flooring

When you choose game room flooring from Carlisle, you’ll have a large selection of hardwoods to work with.

• Ash is a dense hardwood with meandering grain that features colors ranging from cream to light blonde to rich nutty brown hues.
• Cherry offers a subtle grain structure with deep, glowing red color that will darken as the floor ages.
• Birch has planks that combine blonde outer edges and warm amber portions, with grain patterns that range from highly figured flames to subtle swirls.
• White Maple has strikingly beautiful grain patterns with cleaner and lighter hues for a more neutral finish.
• Brown Maple has a distinctive brown heartwood and striking variations in color and character, along with subtle and consistent grain patterns.
• Hickory is an incredibly dense wood with interesting grain patterns and hues that range from lighter blonde in the sapwood to cocoa brown and beige in the heartwood.
• Walnut is a dark wood with rich chocolate hues and complex grain patterns.
• Red Oak has a tight, consistent grain pattern with color that offers deep, salmon tones in the heartwood.
• White Oak is a dense wood with nutty, brown hues and dramatic grain patterns that range from simple and sleek lines to vibrant swirls.
• Rift & Quartersawn White Oak features straight parallel lines in the grain with vibrant ray flecks that radiate across each board.

We also offer options for unfinished Pine flooring, including Eastern White Pine and Heart Pine floors for exceptional wide plank knotty Pine flooring.

How to customize your game room flooring

When designing your game room or family room flooring, you’ll have a wide range of options at Carlisle for creating the perfect floor for your space.

A choice of woods

We offer a variety of hardwood, each with its own personality, grain patterns and different levels of density.

A selection of grades

Our proprietary grading system lets you choose floorboards that reveal more or less of the wood’s character. Our Heirloom Grade features boards with less variation and a more uniform look, delivering a more refined and formal feel. Our Original Grade shows more of the knots, mineral streaks, grain patterns and color variations that give the wood its personality.

Solid or engineered floorboards

Our hardwood floors can be installed with solid wood floorboards or floorboards made from engineered wood. Engineered floorboards are constructed with multiple layers of material that are glued together to form a core that is more durable and resistant to moisture and changes in relative humidity. Engineered floors are ideal for installation below grade, on concrete slabs and over radiant heating systems.

Unlimited colors

In addition to natural and amber finishes that preserve the color and personality of our wood, we offer stains in a virtually unlimited range of colors. Our Custom Color matching system makes it easy to create a stain to match the hue of almost any item you send or bring to us.

Texture and pattern

Texturing or distressing your floorboards can make a new floor look like an antique surface. And our wide plank specialists can help you explore the benefits of a Chevron vs. Herringbone pattern for your game room flooring, or help you create a custom pattern for a one-of-a-kind floor.

Come to Carlisle for the finest game room flooring

Carlisle woodworkers have been handcrafting the finest wide plank floors in the country for more than 50 years. Our team obsesses over every detail to ensure your floor will exceed your expectation and meet our exacting standards. We source our wide planks from the soundest and most reliable timber grown in American forests, and produce one-of-a-kind floors using time-honored woodworking techniques. Our design consultants work closely with you to define a vision for your floor that reflects your sense of style. And whether you choose your game room flooring from one of our curated collections or you custom design a surface that is uniquely yours, your Carlisle floor will be produced in exactly the same way: one plank at a time.