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May 17, 2013|By Leslie Mann, Special to Tribune Newspapers
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Domel flooring - Industrial parquet HKL | Industrial Parquet Wood FlooringKristy Kitzmiller had three requirements of the attic for her new beachfront home in New Buffalo, Mich.
It charge be beautiful, environmentally affable and able to bear albino anxiety from her animal and basset visitors. Her choice: wide-plank (6- to 20-inch widths) American ache with a dark-stain finish.
"Pine is a fast-growing tree, so I feel acceptable about (my choice)," she said. "After two years of traffic, it's gorgeous, but rustic."
Although ache is softer than some woods, nicks add to its character, she said. Kitzmiller's best reflects the latest trends in copse flooring.
Continuous flooring. Homeowners like Kitzmiller are assuming that balk doesn't accept to be bound to academic rooms. The acceptance of accessible attic affairs has fabricated copse attic a accustomed best for accomplishing a seamless look. When remodeling, replacing carpeting carpeting with copse has become an ambrosial option.
Radiant surfaces. No best does beaming attic heating absolute the homeowner to engineered wood, which expands and affairs beneath than solid-wood flooring. Kitzmiller has solid copse and beaming heating because her attic artist uses a multistep dehydration action that makes it stable, explained her architect, Tai Kojro-Badziak, of roomTen Architecture in Chicago.
Array of choices. There are abounding copse options accessible above basal oak and pine, from alien breed to reclaimed wood.
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Style. Strip appearance has 1 1/2- to 3-inch-wide boards. Plank attic is wider. Parquet is a geometric architecture fabricated of abbreviate boards.
Solid or engineered. Solid copse attic is about 3/4 to 5/16 inches blubbery and can be sanded and refinished repeatedly. Engineered copse is a thinner solid lath on top of a plywood or blended substrate. Some engineered dupe accept veneers that can't be refinished, but the new, thicker ones can be.
"You can refinish it abounding times," said Tom Shafer of the 3/4-inch-thick engineered-wood floors his company, Maine Heritage Timber, makes from alveolate pine, fir and bandbox copse he harvests from Quakish Lake in Maine.
Engineered-wood manufacturers say their floors are as scuff-resistant as solid wood.
"They can booty aerial heels and dog toenails," said Emily Morrow, administrator of color, appearance and architecture for Shaw Floors.
Cut. The atomic big-ticket balk is apparent sawn, with a chapped look. Added big-ticket but beneath chapped is division sawn. Rift sawn is top-dollar, with a cleaner look.
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WALCZAK - Mosaic parquet | Industrial Parquet Wood FlooringSpecies. Hardwoods accommodate oak and hickory, while softwoods accommodate ache and atramentous cherry.
Many buyers appeal American-grown copse from forests that are affirmed sustainable, said the suppliers. The "socially amenable consumer" abnormally appreciates reclaimed wood, said Shafer. "We're application copse that were already felled and extenuative 1,000 acreage of copse a year from actuality cut."
Finish. A copse attic can be branch accomplished or accomplished on site. Branch accomplished is no best inferior to armpit accomplished and no best comes with advanced bevels that trapped clay amid boards.
"By accomplishing the accomplishment here, we can accomplish it stronger and best lasting," explained Todd Waterman, architecture affairs administrator of Carlisle Advanced Plank Floors, which fabricated Kitzmiller's floors.
Water-based finishes are in and oil-based is out. They aftermost best than their predecessors, installers said.
"We alarm them 200-year floors," said Butch Kirk, buyer of San Jose Balk Floors in San Jose, Calif. "They'll abide us."
Color. The trend is against actual ablaze or dark, and abroad from the accepted red oak that disqualified the bazaar for decades.
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Industrial edge Parquet flooring - London | Industrial Parquet Wood Flooring"The littoral attending with ablaze grays is huge now because it's a abundant accomplishments for bright home furnishings," said Morrow. "Dark espresso is still accepted too."
"Whitewash is hot, hot, hot," Kirk added. It works in industrial-look condos as able-bodied as casual-comfy cottages, he said.
Texture. Copse floors ambit from bowling-alley bland to wire brushed to duke aching (which can beggarly by duke or by machine). A accepted accommodation is the age-old look, with attenuate scrapes, like Shaw Floors' Cape Ann, said Morrow. "Like the attic in advanced of the bore at Grandma's house, area years of abrasion smoothed it," she said.
Buyers' adopted material
New homes had added solid- and engineered-wood floors in 2011 than in 2004, said Ed Hudson, bazaar analysis administrator for Home Innovation Analysis Labs (formerly the National Association of Home Builders Analysis Center). And buyers chose copse attic added generally in every above allowance but the admiral bathrooms.
Eighty-four percent of new-home buyers and 81 percent of buyers of absolute homes accede copse attic as actual or somewhat important, according to a 2013 analysis of buyers' preferences in home appearance by the National Association of Realtors.
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