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The living room is typically the center of your home – it’s the room with the most personality and the place you want the decor to really shine. While there are lots of options for living room flooring – from carpet to tile and laminate surfaces – there’s nothing quite as beautiful or as practical as installing hardwood flooring in the living room.
Whether it’s Oak, Birch, Ash or Maple, hardwood flooring in a living room brings an immediate sense of warmth, elegance and beauty to the space. And when you choose wide plank floors – with floorboards that are 4″ to 20″ wide and up to 12′ long – you’ll have a floor that will be the defining feature of your home and a design element that will delight and astonish you every time you enter the room.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, you’ll find lots of options for hardwood flooring in your living room. Our design consultants will walk you through all your choices for wood – from the durability of Hickory floors to the personality of unfinished White Pine flooring – as well as your options for stain color, pattern, texture, finish and more. Get in touch today to begin your journey to explore all the possibilities for wide plank hardwood flooring in your living room.
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ExploreWhen you order wide plank living room flooring from Carlisle, your floor will be installed just like any other hardwood floor but with many fewer planks. That’s one of the reasons many installers prefer working with Carlisle floors – wider and longer boards mean there are simply fewer boards to install overall, speeding the installation process.
Your Carlisle floor can be installed using a combination of glue, nails and/or staples, or with direct glue down installation. The best method for your floor depends on the subsurface in the room in which the floor is installed.
When you place your order, you and your installer will receive helpful tip sheets that outline best practices for installing wide plank floors to maximize their beauty and durability. And throughout the process, your wide plank specialist will be available to answer questions and offer expert advice.
For most homeowners, the choice for living room flooring comes down to a wood floor vs. carpet. While carpet offers a softer surface, hardwood provides a floor that will last much longer and can be cleaned more easily. Offering a sense of timeless beauty, hardwood floors are the surface most in demand by homeowners and prospective homebuyers.
When deciding on hardwood flooring in the living room, the choice of hardwood species usually comes down to the density, color and personality of the wood. Hickory and Maple are among the densest hardwoods. Ash and White Maple offer lighter hues, while Walnut and Cherry boast richer, darker tones. Rift & Quartersawn White Oak produces floorboards with straight, consistent grain lines, while Birch has patterns that range from subtle swirls to flamelike effects that seem to dance across each board.
Hickory is the densest of the woods commonly used in living room flooring, home office flooring and bedroom hardwood flooring. Maple and White Oak are also quite scratch-resistant. While prized for their rich color tones, species like Walnut and Cherry are among the softest hardwoods and will tend to show wear more easily.
Engineered hardwood flooring is ideal for installation over concrete slab and radiant heat. Engineered floorboards are made with a veneer of hardwood that's glued to multiple layers of backing material to form a plank that is more resistant to moisture and changes in humidity.
Yes. Choosing to have your living room floor prefinished means that your floor will arrive ready for installation, having been sanded, stained and sealed at our facility. With a prefinished floor, you can avoid the mess and odor that are part of having a floor finished inside your home after installation.
Textured hardwood flooring in the living room can instantly add a sense of character, authenticity and warmth to the room. Textured floors rely on a variety of techniques that make new floorboards look as if they've been walked on and aged for generations or centuries. From marks that recreate the look of boards cut at early sawmills to wire brush treatments that wear down the softer grains in the wood, texturing produces an antique look at a fraction of the cost of using older, reclaimed timbers.
Yes. Patterns are ideal for living room floors, as a pattern or parquet floor adds a sense of luxury and visual interest to the room. Your Carlisle wide plank specialist can help you explore the benefits of Chevron vs. Herringbone patterns or design a pattern that is unique to your home.
When you want the finest possible hardwood flooring in the living room, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors is your best choice. For more than 50 years, our artisan woodworkers have handcrafted wide plank floors with time-honored processes and materials sourced from the finest forests in America. We know that every detail of your living room floor must be perfect – from the way the timber reveals the personality of the grain to the nuance of a hand-scraped edge. A custom-made Carlisle floor will perfectly reflect your sense of style and beauty, taking its place in your home as a central design element that will amaze all who enter the room.
Your Carlisle wide plank specialist will be your guide throughout the journey of designing hardwood flooring for your living room. From your first phone call or visit to our showroom through delivery and installation of your floor, our specialists will impress you with their expert knowledge, responsive service and attention to detail. Our customers often say that the process of designing their hardwood floor was a pleasure from start to finish.
