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When choosing stair treads for your home, White Oak offers the perfect combination of beauty and durability. White Oak is among the stronger hardwoods, creating wood stair treads that are more resistant to scratches, dents and dings. White Oak offers nutty brown and cocoa hues along with dramatic grain patterns that create stunning floors and stair treads.
White Oak stair treads are a natural choice if your hardwood floors are made of White Oak. But White Oak stair treads can also be an excellent complement to floors made of another hardwood. When choosing stair treads, a wood species that offers a complementary color or appearance can help to create more visual focus, making the stairway a more prominent feature of your home.
When you come to Carlisle Wide Plank Floors, our design consultants can help you explore all the pros and cons of White Oak stair treads. We’ll show you how they differ in appearance and performance from Hickory or Black Walnut stair treads, and help you consider all your options for stains and finishes as well as texture and wood grade. Our specialists can also show you stair treads in many other wood species. We can walk you through the differences in unfinished Red Oak vs. unfinished White Pine flooring as well as the pros and cons of Yellow Pine vs. White Pine. With Carlisle, you’ll get the attentive customer service and knowledgeable expertise to design a one-of-a-kind surface for your home.
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ExploreAlmost any species of hardwood or pine can make an excellent stair tread. The best wood for stair treads comes down to your personal preference. Most people choose stair treads based on the color tones and personality of the wood along with consideration for the density of the floorboard. White Oak stair treads are an excellent option as they offer both exceptional beauty and durability.
A top coat of polyurethane will provide a longer lasting finish for your stair treads.
Both Pine and Oak can make excellent stair treads. Oak is a hardwood and will be less likely to show scratches and dents. But even as a softer wood, Pine can make beautiful and durable stair treads.
Matching your stair treads to your hardwood floors can create a sense of flow throughout your space. But choosing a complementary color or wood species for your stair treads can be a design statement that brings more visual focus to your stairway.
White Oak is an American species while French Oak is grown in France. While these hardwoods are similar in density, French Oak tends to be somewhat darker and to feature more prominent grain.
Whether you want a look that’s sleek, chic, or unique, we can provide a floor that fits your individual style.
When designing your White Oak stair treads with Carlisle, you’ll have a broad variety of options that can help you get the treads that are perfect for your space.
Most of our floors and stair treads can be ordered in one of several proprietary grades. Our Original Grade is crafted to maintain the character of the White Oak timbers. You’ll see more knots, mineral streaks, ingrown bark and color variation in these treads. Our Heirloom Grade minimizes these features for a more refined and formal look. And our Signature Grade blends the two for a customized appearance.
In addition to a nice selection of standard stains, we can match the hue of a stain to virtually any item you bring or send to us. That means you have unlimited options for stain colors, so you’ll never have to settle for a hue that’s only an approximation of the perfect color.
We offer a variety of texture treatments for floors and treads that can add character and a sense of age to new floors. From hand-scraping the edges of planks to adding saw marks or wearing down the grain with a wire brush, our texture treatments give new floorboards the appearance of planks that have been lived on and walked on for decades or centuries.
Carlisle White Oak stair treads can be ordered as solid or engineered boards. Solid hardwood boards are cut from a single piece of timber, while engineered boards are constructed with multiple layers of material glued to a top layer of White Oak. This type of floorboard has a more solid core, making it more resistant to higher levels of humidity and moisture.
From our wide plank floors to our White Oak stair treads, every surface produced by our artisan craftsmen is a work of art that perfectly reflects your sense of style and taste. We take enormous pride in using time-honored techniques and the soundest, most reliable timber available to craft floors of extraordinary beauty and durability. Our craftsmen examine every inch of every floorboard, obsessing over details to make sure your Carlisle floor will meet our exacting standards and exceed your highest expectations. With White Oak stair treads or a wide plank floor from Carlisle, you’ll have a surface that will bring warmth and beauty to your home for years to come.
