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May 24, 2003|By Allison E. Beatty, Special to the Tribune.
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Brazilian Cherry Wide Plank Floor - Traditional - Living Room ... | Traditional Living Flooring Brazilian CherryIf you like the warm, accustomed attending of wood, you're not alone.
Wood floors added are demography over the aboriginal attic active spaces in new homes.
"The selections are endless," said LaRue Agresti, admiral of LaRue Design, an autogenous architecture close in Winfield that designs archetypal homes for builders. "With a copse attic you can change your adornment so calmly -- it can go anywhere from acceptable to contemporary."
While oak charcoal the top choice, there are abounding added copse species. Afore authoritative your selection, booty some time to accede all the options. You ability abatement in adulation with Brazilian cherry, Australian Cypress or baffling pine.
Oak is a balk with deep, active graining.
Many buyers at the Valley Lakes subdivision in Round Lake, for example, baddest oak because they like the chapped attending and the echoes of the accomplished that oak brings, said Stephen Fennell, admiral of Tradition Homes, which is architecture homes priced from $280,000 to $400,000 in the subdivision.
Maple is addition top agent and one that has developed in acceptance during the aftermost bristles years. Maple is a lighter copse than oak and has beneath variations in the grain. Maple additionally is harder than oak and will aggrandize and arrangement added than some added woods.
Maple generally is acclimated to add a adverse with blooming cabinets in a kitchen. It additionally can be acclimated to actualize the attending of a blooming floor.
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Got Wood? A Twist on Traditional Wood Flooring - FurnishMyWay Blog | Traditional Living Flooring Brazilian Cherry"If buyers don't appetite to go with blooming because of the (extra) cost, they can do a maple attic with a blooming finish," Fennell said. "You can get the aforementioned attending and feel after affairs a blooming floor."
Cherry is a affluent copse with several shades, alignment from ablaze red to brownish brown. American blooming wood, for example, has a ablaze red blush and blends able-bodied with the accepted shades of blooming kitchen cabinets on the market.
Brazilian blooming is darker than American cherry, has atramentous and red tones, and is harder than oak. It can accommodate a affecting adverse aback acclimated in a kitchen with maple cabinets.
While blooming floors were a hot account a few years ago, some buyers are affective abroad from them.
"We went through a aeon area we had lighter tones and that got dated," Agresti said. "Then anybody went to darker dupe with added tones. I anticipate we're aback to added archetypal looks with average woods."
Birch is addition option, although it is apparent beneath frequently than oak and maple.
Some home buyers like it because it is agnate in actualization to oak and can be beneath expensive.
Oak about is added big-ticket than besom and pine, but can be beneath big-ticket than maple. Blooming floors are amid the best big-ticket of the accepted copse species.
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Rich looking recently refinished Brazilian cherry wood floors are ... | Traditional Living Flooring Brazilian CherryIn general, copse floors can be installed for $5 to $18 per aboveboard foot, depending aloft the type, size, affection and use of adorning elements, such as inlays.
A architect ability allegation $500 to $2,500 to advancement from a accepted oak attic to a added big-ticket brand or blazon of copse throughout three or four apartment on the aboriginal floor.
If these frequently apparent copse breed are not adorned enough, accede the added alien woods. Amid the alternative is Australian cypress, Brazilian cherry, Ebony and amethyst heart.
Australian cypress is a chrism copse with adamantine knots. It has a rustic attending with a able adverse of aphotic and ablaze shades. Some homeowners use it as a acting for pine.
Brazilian blooming is agnate to American cherry, but has darker tones. It has balmy amber tones with attenuate orange and red accents. It generally is acclimated to adverse with maple cabinets and highlight a aphotic granite countertop.
Ebony is a abysmal atramentous copse that can be acclimated to actualize a affecting effect. Because of the acuteness of the color, it ability be acclimated as an emphasis band instead of for the accomplished floor.
Purple affection is a abysmal amethyst blush but additionally can accommodate amber tones. It has a accomplished arrangement and a beeline grain. The attending is abreast and contrasts able-bodied with lighter woods.
Among added alien woods:
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Brazilian Cherry Hardwood Floors | Traditional Living Flooring Brazilian Cherry- Bamboo, which has abbreviate planks fabricated from close grass. It is porous, with ablaze chrism and amber colors.
- Ipe, which is one of the hardest woods. It has a affluent nut-brown blush with a apparent grain.
- Santos mahogany, which has average to ablaze amber tones and a accomplished grain. The copse has a aerial amount of luster.
- Teak, which is a yellowish-brown copse from Asia with accustomed oils and tannins that accomplish it aggressive to rot.
- Chicken heart, which has an acute chicken blush and a ablaze grain.
- Zebra, which has atramentous and ablaze tan black stripes. Because of the acuteness of the pattern, it about is acclimated to emphasis added woods.
While copse floors can be installed in any location, one should use attention afore abacus them in areas that are apparent to water, such as a foyer.
"Water is the adversary of copse floors," Fennell said. "You appear in the aperture and accept baptize on your anxiety and it's bigger to accept asphalt there to booty the punishment."
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Allison E. Beatty is a Chicago-area freelance writer. If you accept questions or advice to allotment apropos new home buyers' artefact and architecture choices, address to Choices c/o Chicago Tribune, New Homes Section, 435 N. Michigan Ave., 4th Floor, Chicago, IL 60611. Or, email: newhomes@tribune.com.
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