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 Hardwood floors offer the unmistakable rich character and timeless beauty only found in authentic real wood. It is never out of fashion and adds real value to the home. Many interior decorators today choose hardwood floors as the base layer and use area rugs to enhance the room's overall color scheme. Flooring By Design carries many types of styles and colors of hardwood flooring.
Through advancements in hardwood construction techniques, flooring manufacturers are able to produce wood floors that are more durable and adaptable to many different environments. Engineered and longstrip hardwood floors allow homeowners to use hardwood floors in areas of the home that they would never have considered in the past.
Today's hardwood floors come in a wide variety of wood species, colors and widths. Besides the classic North American hardwoods (like oak, maple and ash), exotic hardwood species from all over the World are available. Exotic hardwoods give homeowners the chance to better express their own personal decorating tastes with a more unique visual appearance. |
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The Character of Hardwood Flooring
Many factors define the look of natural hardwood flooring. Species of the tree, where it grew, rate of growth, part of the tree used--they all determine your flooring's unique "character marks." |
- The closer a plank is cut to the center of the tree, the darker its overall tone. Lighter boards came from closer to the bark.
- Knots indicate that a limb grew from that spot.
- Growth rings, determined by climate trends and mineral/nutrient absorption, determine grain pattern.
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| While all these "character marks" impact the appearance of finished boards, they do not affect their strength. |
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