Random Width Flooring

Your guide to random width flooring

Many homeowners prefer the look and feel of random width flooring. The idea of installing hardwood floors with planks of varying width comes from some of the first floors created in America – the earliest settlers used boards at whatever width a tree produced.

Random width flooring can work with any décor from traditional and rustic to modern and fashion-forward. With planks of varying widths, you create a floor with more visual interest and a more casual feel.

At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we offer wood flooring made from a variety of hardwood and Pine, with up to 20″ width planks. Our wide plank specialists can help you explore all your options for wood – from Hickory to Oak to Cherry – as well as texture, structure and color. With random width flooring from Carlisle for your living room, dining room or home office flooring, you’ll have a wide plank surface that will become a stunning and central design element of your space.

Choosing the wood for your random width flooring

At Carlisle, we offer a variety of hardwood flooring. Depending on the species, you can order wide plank floors from Carlisle with 4″ to 20″ width planks.

• Ash is prized for its interesting grain patterns and striking hues which tend to have a more neutral and natural feel. Ash stains easily and is a dense and durable hardwood.
• Birch is a favorite of Carlisle craftsman and is renowned for its intriguing hues that range from rich reddish-brown in the heartwood to blonde outer edges and warm amber as well. Birch offers varying grain patterns that run from subtle swirls to flame-like effects, adding personality to a floor without feeling overly rustic.
• Cherry is known for its rich red tones that grow deeper and darker over time. With a subtle but distinctive flowing grain pattern, Cherry offers an inviting warmth that makes it ideal for both traditional and modern designs.
• Hickory wood floors are extremely tough and durable and feature color tones that run from cocoa brown and beige in the heartwood to lighter blonde in the sapwood. The highly interesting patterns in a Hickory floor can be tamed with stain to provide a subtle overall color palette for more contemporary styles.
• Brown Maple is known both for its beauty and durability. With subtle and consistent grain patterns and distinctive brown heartwood, Brown Maple offers striking variations in color and character. It’s often treated with a natural finish to let the raw beauty of this exceptional hardwood shine.
• White Maple hardwood floors feature cleaner and lighter hues that are reminiscent of flowing water. With clear, hard flowing grain and occasional swirls, White Maple is in high demand as a more neutral floor that can pair easily with both traditional and contemporary designs.
• Walnut is renowned for its rich mocha-chocolate hues with surprising auburn undertones. Walnut features lighter-colored sapwood and darker heartwood with complex grain patterns that make it one of the most attractive woods available.
• Red Oak offers a near perfect balance of beauty, durability and stability. Prized for its pinkish undertones, Red Oak has a tight and consistent grain structure that enables woodworkers to craft exceptionally wide and long floorboards.
• White Oak has dense fibers that make for an exceptionally durable floor that can complement any interior design. Featuring nutty brown and cocoa hues, White Oak offers dramatic grain patterns that run from simple and sleek to intricate swirls.
• Rift and Quartersawn White Oak planks are cut with a special technique that produces straight parallel lines in the grain with vibrant ray flecks that radiate across the board.
• Eastern White Pine is a lighter softwood with dense, signature grain and subtle knots. One of America’s most time-honored woods, unfinished White Pine flooring is right at home in everything from colonial homes to contemporary urban lofts.
• Heart Pine is cut from the heart of the log to produce floorboards that are as hard as Oak. Heart Pine offers hues that range from pumpkin and amber to darker, more modern colors.
• Hit or Miss Pine floors are popular with enthusiasts who love antique hardwood floors. These wood floors feature new planks that are treated to look like boards that were cut at early sawmills, where machinery would skip across the boards and randomly leave saw marks.

Why Carlisle is #1 in random width flooring

What makes Carlisle the most trusted source for random width flooring in America for businesses and homeowners? The short answer: quality and selection. For more than 50 years, our artisan craftsmen have used time-honored techniques and the finest raw materials available to continually produce one-of-a-kind hardwood flooring masterpieces. Embracing the highest levels of craftsmanship and providing extraordinary customer service, we obsess over every detail of your floor to ensure it meets your highest expectations and our exacting standards.

From a variety of hardwoods to floorboards that range from 4″ to 20″ in width, you’ll have lots of choices as you design your random width flooring at Carlisle. Throughout the process, our highly knowledgeable design consultants will work with you to ensure that every aspect of your floor perfectly reflects your sense of style and meets the needs of your design.