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Shabby chic flooring is a design trend that embraces the beauty of vintage surfaces. Using reclaimed floorboards or new planks that are made to look old, shabby chic flooring recreates the elegant but worn appearance of finely crafted floors that have been lived on for generations. Many shabby chic floors are painted or stained with light colors to match the aesthetics of shabby chic furnishings and decor.
At Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, we offer a wide variety of options for shabby chic floors that can create the warm comfort and vintage appearance of this popular style. Our design consultants can help you explore your options for types of wood, color, texture and finish to create beautiful shabby chic surfaces for any room in the house. We can also help you explore other contemporary design options like diagonal hardwood flooring, patterned floors and contrasting hardwood floors.
Shabby chic flooring is a surface that recreates the worn but elegant look of older floors that are often painted or stained with lighter hues. The shabby chic aesthetic is most often seen in living room, kitchen and bedroom hardwood flooring.
When installing new floors with a shabby chic aesthetic, you can apply texture to new floorboards to give them the appearance of planks that are decades or centuries old.
Yes. Engineered wood is created with multiple layers of material that are glued to a top layer of hardwood to create a floorboard with a more stable core. Engineered planks are best used in rooms where higher levels of moisture or humidity are present. Engineered floors can be textured just like solid wood floors to create a shabby chic look.
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ExploreCarlisle textured floor may be the best option. Our craftsmen can apply a variety of treatments to new floorboards to create the look of floors that have been around for decades or centuries. Our handmade surface treatments include techniques like Brushed Texture, where our craftsmen use a wire brush to scrape away the softer grains, reproducing the kind of wear that is normally the result of time. We can also apply hand-scraped edges to recreate the appearance of boards that were once scraped with a knife to smooth the transition between thicker and thinner planks. And we can add saw marks and other imperfections to new planks to give them the appearance of floorboards that cut at early sawmills more than a century ago.
When designing shabby chic flooring with reclaimed or textured floorboards from Carlisle, you’ll have a wide range of choices that can help to customize your floor to create a one-of-a-kind surface.
We offer a variety of species at Carlisle and your Wide Plank Specialist can help narrow down the best species for your particular design vision. Most of our floorboards are available in several grades, allowing you to choose planks that show more or less variation in color and grain as well as knots and mineral streaks. Revealing more character in the wood creates a floor that has a more casual and rustic feel, while minimizing these variations produces a surface that has a more formal and elegant feel.
The wider your floorboards, the more spacious and luxurious your floor will feel. Use standard widths to create a consistent and formal feel, or vary the widths randomly to create a more casual and rustic appearance.
Unlike our competitors, we offer a virtually unlimited range of stain colors, so you’ll never have to settle for something that’s only “close” to your ideal hue.
In addition to solid hardwood flooring, we offer an assortment of engineered floorboards that are ideal for installation in spaces where moisture and humidity levels may be higher. Engineered boards are made by adhering multiple layers of material to a veneer of hardwood, creating a stronger core that’s more resistant to moisture.
Carlisle has been a leader in handcrafted wide plank floors for more than 50 years. The quality of our floors is unrivaled in the industry. Our craftsmen are true artisans with a love and feel for fine wood. They painstakingly tend to every detail to make sure that each floorboard, every hand-scraped edge and every inch of stain is absolutely perfect in order to meet your expectations and our highest standards.
When you work with our knowledgeable wide plank specialists, you’ll be amazed at how exciting the process of designing shabby chic flooring can be. Our team will work closely with you to understand your style and design aesthetic before helping you choose the best wood, grade, color, texture and finish to achieve your vision for your floor. With Carlisle, you know your floor will become a defining feature of your home and a welcome reminder of where you are every time you return to it.
