Medium Hardwood Floors

The versatility of medium hardwood floors

Medium-toned hardwood floors are perhaps the most versatile of surfaces. With hues that range from nutty brown to warm amber to salmon tones, medium hardwood floors can work with almost any style of design from contemporary and modern to rustic and traditional.

Medium hardwood floors will hide scuff marks and debris more easily than dark or medium dark hardwood floors. Consequently, they’re perfect for higher traffic areas where dust, dirt and pet hair may accumulate. When comparing medium and light hardwood floors – Hickory vs. Maple for example – medium floors offer a more neutral surface, making it easy to pair them with furnishings and decor.

At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, you’ll find a nice selection of medium hardwood floors. Our design consultants will help you explore all your options for customizing your floors. We’ll explain the benefits of Red Oak vs. Maple or Hickory vs. Oak flooring. We’ll show you all the possibilities for the grade and widths of your planks as well as the color of your stain and the texture of your floor. With a wide plank medium hardwood floor from Carlisle, you’ll have a surface that will set the stage for a home life full of beauty and elegance.

What are medium hardwood floors?

Medium hardwood floors are surfaces made from planks with hues that are in the medium range of hardwood colors.

What color is medium wood flooring?

The color of medium wood floors typically runs from light brown or amber to pinkish red or pumpkin.

Can you have different colors of floors in one house?

Yes. You can use contrasting hues to create visual interest and to give each room its own design scheme. On the other hand, matching hardwood floors provide a more cohesive look and a stronger sense of flow throughout a house.

Medium hardwood floors from Carlisle

At Carlisle, you’ll find a variety of choices in medium hardwood floors.

• Birch is a captivating hardwood known for its varying grain patterns – from subtle swirls to flame-like effects that seem to dance across each board. Birch has an intriguing combination of blonde outer edges, warm amber portions and rich reddish-brown in the heartwood.
• Cherry is hardwood that only gets better with time. With subtle but distinctive flowing grain patterns and lustrous red tones, Cherry is a favorite of homeowners seeking a traditional look as well as those interested in more modern options.
• Hickory offers cocoa brown and beige hues in the heartwood with lighter blonde colors in the sapwood. A highly durable floor, Hickory boasts interesting grain patterns that make it ideal for everything from modern bungalows to rustic retreats.
• Red Oak is prized for its deep, salmon tones in the heartwood and for its tight grain structure that enables woodworkers to create boards of remarkable widths and lengths.
• White Oak is the ideal floor for almost any kind of design scheme – from casual to formal to contemporary. Featuring dramatic grain patterns and nutty brown tones, White Oak has dense fibers that make it an exceptionally durable floor.
• Rift and Quartersawn White Oak is made with a cutting technique that produces straight parallel lines in the grain with vibrant ray flecks that radiate across each board.

In addition to medium hardwood floors, we offer light and dark hardwood varieties as well as several Pine and reclaimed options.

• Ash is a lighter wood that offers color variations from cream to light blonde to rich nutty brown hues when finished naturally. Due to its lack of tannins, Ash takes stain very easily and can be colored for dramatic results in a range of settings.
• Brown Maple is known for its aesthetic beauty as well as its hardness and durability. With striking variations in color and character and subtle and consistent grain patterns, Brown Maple is a hardwood that is equally at home in traditional and modern decor.
• White Maple is prized for its lighter hues, natural color tones and neutral palette. White Maple has clear, hard flowing grain with occasional swirls that help to make exceptionally beautiful floors.
• Walnut is a dark and strikingly beautiful hardwood with chocolate hues that are lighter in the sapwood and darker in the heartwood. Featuring complex grain patterns, Walnut is suitable for any interior design – from rustic to formal to contemporary and everything in between.
• Eastern White Pine offers floorboards with smooth grain, beautiful knots and lighter colors. Eastern White Pine works with design schemes that range from traditional colonial homes to contemporary urban lofts.
• Heart Pine offers alluring grain lines, beautiful knots and a density that rivals Red Oak.
• Hit or Miss Pine floors are made with new boards that reproduce saw marks from planks once cut at riverside sawmills.

Design your medium hardwood floors with help from Carlisle

When you come to Carlisle for medium hardwood floors, our customer service will amaze you just as much as our wide plank surfaces. From your initial contact with a design consultant through the delivery and installation of your Carlisle floor, our remarkable wide plank specialists will answer every question, provide expert guidance and lead you through the process of creating an extraordinary floor. If you know exactly what you’re looking for in medium floors, we’ll do everything to help you achieve your vision. And if you’re just exploring your wide plank flooring options, we’ll introduce you to all your options for wood, grade, texture, pattern and finishes to create a surface that will delight and thrill you every time you enter the room.

What makes Carlisle #1 in medium hardwood floors?

Carlisle has been a leader in wide plank floors for more than 50 years, handcrafting the finest wood surfaces in the country one plank at a time. Relying on time-honored processes and sourcing the finest raw materials from American forests, our artisan craftsman hand-produce surfaces that are the perfect reflection of each homeowner’s sense of style and beauty. Our forest-to-floor ethic means we can harvest the most beautiful and reliable timber from American forests while preserving natural resources and reducing the amount of waste in our production process. When you choose medium hardwood floors from Carlisle, you can have confidence that your floor will be a masterpiece in wood that will become the defining feature of your home.