Wine Cellar Flooring

Choosing hardwood wine cellar flooring

Wood floors are the most popular type of wine cellar flooring, adding warmth and timeless beauty to any interior space. But installing wood floors below grade – where most wine cellars are located – can be problematic. The higher levels of humidity in a cellar are not generally helpful for wood floors, and solid wood floorboards can swell and warp under these conditions. That’s why, when hardwood floors are key to your vision for your wine cellar flooring, engineered floor boards are the way to go.

Engineered floors are made with boards where multiple layers of material are glued together. The top layer is a veneer of hardwood, while the backing layers may be made of plywood, fiber board or solid wood. The result is a floorboard that’s much more resistant to moisture and changes in relative humidity.

When you want the finest wood floors for your wine cellar flooring, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors offers a superior selection of engineered floors. Wide plank floors provide a more distinctive and elegant look, raising the aesthetic appeal of your wine cellar flooring. Our wide plank specialists can walk you through all your options the perfect floor for your wine cellar. From exploring the benefits of White Oak vs. French Oak floors, solid vs. engineered floorboards and Herringbone vs. Chevron patterns, our team will help you design wine cellar flooring that will astonish and delight every visitor to your cellar.

What’s the best flooring for a wine cellar?

The best floor for your wine cellar is a matter of personal preference. When comparing tile vs. hardwood flooring, many homeowners feel hardwood has a warmer and more inviting feel that is ideal for the ambience in a wine cellar. And when considering a vinyl vs. wood floor, hardwood lasts longer and is easier to repair or refinish than vinyl – critical points when installing wine cellar flooring.

Why is engineered wood preferred for wine cellar flooring?

Wine cellars are typically located below grade, where temperatures are desirable for aging wine. But these locations also have higher levels of moisture and relative humidity, and engineered wood performs better than solid wood in these locations as it is more resistant to swelling and warping.

Your choice of hardwood for wine cellar flooring

Carlisle, we offer wide plank floors in 10 types of hardwood, making it easy to find the perfect kitchen hardwood flooring, dining room flooring or wine cellar flooring for your home.

• White Oak has dramatic grain patterns that range from simple and sleek lines to vibrant swirls, with hues that run from brown to beige.
• Red Oak features deep, salmon tones and has tight, consistent grain.
• Rift & Quartersawn White Oak is made with special cutting techniques that produce straight parallel lines in the grain for a more formal and consistent appearance.
• Ash floors feature meandering grain patterns and hues that range from cream to light blonde to rich nutty brown.
• Walnut is prized for its rich chocolate/mocha hues and complex grain patterns.
• Cherry is known for its lustrous red tones and subtle but distinctive flowing grain patterns.
• Birch has warm amber portions and blonde outer edges, with grain patterns that range from subtle swirls to highly figured flames.
• Hickory has unusual strength and features interesting grain patterns with hues from lighter blonde sapwood to cocoa brown and beige heartwood.
• Brown Maple offers subtle and consistent grain patterns with hues of rich gold, amber and brown.
• White Maple features striking, flowing grain patterns with clean and lighter hues that deliver a more neutral finish.

Exceptional service for exceptional floors

When you choose wine cellar flooring from Carlisle, our responsive customer service will amaze you just as much as our wide plank flooring. From your initial phone call or visit to a showroom through the delivery and installation of your floor, you’ll be guided by some of the best wide plank specialists in the business. At every step in the process, our team provides knowledgeable expertise and answers to every question as we help you explore your options for designing the perfect floor for your cellar. If you have a clear picture of what you’re looking for, your Carlisle wide plank specialist will do everything to help you achieve it. And if you’re unsure about the type of wine cellar flooring you want, we’ll help you select from a large assortment of choices for types of wood, wood grade, structure, texture, color, finish and more.

Why come to Carlisle for wine cellar flooring?

For more than 50 years, Carlisle has been a leader in exceptional hardwood flooring. Our success is built on time-honored processes and the highest levels of craftsmanship. Every floor produced by our artisan woodworkers is unique – a masterpiece in wood that is painstakingly handcrafted and produced with passion, purpose and pride. Carlisle craftsman obsess over every detail of your floor to ensure the final product will exceed your expectations – and ours. Whether you choose a floor from our curated collection or design your own one-of-a-kind surface, your Carlisle wine cellar flooring will be produced the same way – one plank at a time.

Our floors are produced with an unwavering commitment to sustainability. We work with a small group of timber growers and sawyers who share our values and vision. We are committed to a forest-to-floor ethic that helps us preserve natural resources even as we harvest the finest timber from America’s forest. Because we craft one floor at a time, we avoid mass production and significantly reduce the amount of waste created in the process of making wide plank floors.