Wood Stair Treads

Choosing the right wood stair treads

As you’re designing the wood floors for your home, selecting the wood stair treads may seem like an afterthought. But the wood, color, texture and width of the wood in your stair treads will have a big impact on the visual appeal of your interior. And you’ll want your stairs to complement your hardwood floors in color tone and personality.

When selecting wood stair treads, you can match your hardwood floors by choosing treads made from the same hardwood and finishing them with the same color. Or you can make your treads stand out by selecting a color tone that complements rather than matches your hardwood floors exactly.

When installing your wood stair treads, it’s important to ensure that the wood grain in the treads matches the grain direction in the floor. This creates a pleasing, continuous appearance between the floor and the stairway passage.

When choosing color, you want to think both about the stair tread and the riser – the wood that runs vertically from one step to another. Painting or staining the riser with a lighter color can help to make the wood stair tread standout visually.

At Carlisle, you’ll find a wealth of options for wood stair treads to match your wide plank floors. Our design consultants will help you explore the benefits of different woods, including the durability of Pine vs. Oak, the hues of Oak vs. Ash, and the stability of Hickory vs. Walnut. While helping you decide on a texture for your Black Walnut stair treads or stain color for your White Oak stair treads, our wide plank specialists will answer every question and provide expert guidance to help you design a truly stunning stairway.

Lots of options for your wood stair treads

Carlisle, we offer a large assortment of wood species for stair treads and wide plank floors. Choose from a variety of hardwood flooring.

• Ash is an amazingly dense and durable hardwood with meandering grain and color variations from cream to light blonde to rich nutty brown.
• Birch offers intriguing combinations of color tones and varying grain patterns that run from subtle swirls to flame-like effects.
• Cherry is one of the world’s favorite hardwoods, producing boards with deep, red tones and subtle grain structure.
• Hickory is one of the toughest hardwoods and features a color palette that ranges from lighter blonde sapwood to rich cocoa browns and beiges.
• Brown Maple boasts rich hues of gold, brown and amber with subtle and consistent grain patterns. Brown Maple is known for its hardness and durability.
• White Maple offers a palette with cleaner and lighter color tones for a more neutral floor. White Maple is one of the most stable hardwoods and features clear, hard flowing grain with occasional swirls.
• Walnut is a sumptuous wood with chocolate hues that are lighter in the sapwood and darker in the heartwood. Featuring complex grain patterns, Walnut makes for a spectacular floor with or without stain.
• Red Oak has pinkish salmon tones in the heartwood and tight, consistent grain that produces boards of exceptional widths and lengths.
• White Oak is a hard and resilient wood with dramatic grain patterns and hues of nutty brown. White Oak is highly popular for its ability to take stain well and to serve the needs of any design scheme.
• Rift and Quartersawn White Oak is cut with techniques that produce straight parallel lines running the length of the plank for strikingly beautiful hardwood floors.
• Eastern White Pine is a classic option that features dense, signature grain with subtle knots and lighter hues.
• Heart Pine is known both for its durability and its warm hues that range from pumpkin to amber to darker, more modern hues.
• Hit or Miss Pine planks are made with new timbers that are treated to look like boards milled at early watermills and sawmills, where saws would often skip across the board and leave random saw marks.

Why Carlisle wood stair treads are #1

Carlisle craftsmen have been producing the finest wide plank floors in America for more than half a century. Using time-honored processes and working with the most reliable timber from America’s finest forests, we fashion extraordinary, one-of-a-kind floors designed to perfectly reflect the sense of style and aesthetic of the homeowners who commission them.

When you choose Carlisle wood stair treads and floors, you’ll work with a wide plank specialist who will help you navigate the process of designing the perfect surfaces for your space. Offering knowledgeable guidance and expert assistance, our specialists make the process of designing a floor nearly as exciting as living on it. From your choice of wood and grade to the color, texture and finish of your floor, we’ll walk you through every option to create a masterpiece in wood that will be a defining feature of your home.