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When you’re choosing flooring for a nursery, the selection most often comes down to carpet vs. hardwood. Carpet may seem like the obvious choice – it’s a softer surface that will cushion falls and minimize bumps. But carpet is hard to clean and even harder to protect against dust mites, pollen and other allergens. That’s where hardwood nursery flooring has a clear advantage.
A hardwood floor in the nursery makes cleaning a breeze. Area rugs can provide cozy places to play and curl up. And hardwood has a timeless beauty that is always in style, bringing greater beauty and elegance to the nursery while adding value to your home. A wide plank hardwood floor adds even greater visual appeal and provides a stunning surface on which your children can grow and thrive.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, you can design your nursery flooring with the finest wide plank floors in America. Our design consultants can assist in choosing the perfect wood for your nursery flooring as well as family room flooring and bedroom hardwood flooring. We’ll help you explore the benefits of White Oak vs. French Oak, for example, and walk you through all your options for color, texture and pattern. With a wide plank Carlisle floor in the nursery, you can be sure you’ll have a floor your family will treasure for years to come.
Nursery flooring must be durable, easy to clean and safe for little ones to walk and play on. While carpeting offers a soft surface that can protect children from falls, it is hard to clean and will show it’s wear much faster than other surfaces. For these reasons, many parents prefer nursery flooring that’s made of hardwood and accented with area rugs.
Yes. Hardwood is quite easy to clean and keep free of dust mites, dirt, pollen and other allergens. Wool rugs, rubber tiles or cotton mats can provide soft areas in the room.
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ExploreInstalling a wide plank floor from Carlisle in your nursery is not that different from installing a standard commercial floor. It may take less time, as wider and longer planks means fewer boards overall. (It’s one of the reasons many installers prefer working with Carlisle floors.) Your nursery flooring can be installed with a variety of industry-accepted methods – a combination of nails, staples and/or glue, or direct glue down installation. The best installation method for your floor depends on the subsurface and the conditions in your nursery.
For an even faster installation, you can consider prefinished nursery flooring from Carlisle. A prefinished floor is sanded, stained and sealed at our facility before it’s shipped to your home. That means you’ll be able to avoid the sawdust from sanding, the noxious odors from staining and sealing, and the inconvenience that’s usually associated with finishing a floor on site.
At Carlisle, you’ll have many ways to customize your nursery flooring or bedroom flooring to create a surface that is uniquely yours.
Your first choice when designing a Carlisle floor is the type of wood to use. We offer a wide variety of wood choices to start the foundation of your design and within each species you can choose different grades of wood as well – our Original Grade shows more knots, variation and personality in the wood, while our Heirloom Grade features fewer variations for a more consistent appearance. We also offer a Signature Blend that is a balance of these two.
You have a choice of solid wood or engineered floorboards. Solid planks are cut from a single piece of timber, while engineered boards are made by gluing multiple layers of material to a veneer of hardwood. Structuring the floorboard in this way makes it more resistant to moisture and to higher levels of relative humidity.
The width of your floorboards will have a big impact on the way you experience your floor. The wider the floorboards, the more expansive the room will seem. Choosing consistent widths gives a floor a more formal appearance, while random or varying widths helps to create more visual interest.
Carlisle craftsmen can texture your nursery flooring to create a vintage look using new floorboards. From adding saw marks and imperfections to wearing down the softer grains with a wire brush or scraping the edges of the boards by hand, our texturing methods can give your nursery flooring added character and authenticity.
At Carlisle, we offer a virtually unlimited number of options for stain colors, along with natural finishes that preserve the color and personality of the original hardwood or pine. And our design consultants can help you explore the benefits and details of a Chevron vs. Herringbone pattern for your floor, or help you design a pattern that is all your own.
When you come to Carlisle for nursery flooring, you know you’ll be working with the best flooring products in the industry. For more than 50 years, we’ve been handcrafting the finest wide plank floors in America, with each surface reflecting the natural beauty of the highest quality raw materials available. Our artisan woodworkers take great pride in using time-honored processes to produce floors of extraordinary quality and durability. They know that every detail matters – from the way the personality of the wood is revealed in each plank to the nuance of a hand-scraped edge. We fashion every Carlisle floor to be the perfect reflection of the homeowner’s sense of style and beauty. That’s why nursery flooring from Carlisle will be a centerpiece of your home that will continue to delight and astonish you for years to come.
