Carlisle Wide Plank Floors has debuted its latest flooring design idea, the “one board flooring,” which makes use of a single-plank design to create a wide range of visible patterns.
For its newest idea flooring, Carlisle’s Transformative Design Crew needed to broaden on the artwork of sample flooring, corresponding to chevron and herringbone, and discover how placement of the planks impacts the ultimate design of a wooden flooring, based on the corporate. In commonplace vast plank flooring installations, the distinctive character of particular person boards contributes considerably to the aesthetic end result whereas sample flooring focus totally on structure and contain a set construction inside which particular person planks exist, Carlisle mentioned.
“Whereas textures and finishes are at all times necessary when designing a flooring, strategically figuring out the place to position a darker board or the place to make use of longer planks has a notable affect on the general really feel and move of the ground,” mentioned Chris Sy, president of Carlisle Vast Plank Flooring. “This concept led our crew to think about whether or not we may make a lovely and interesting flooring from boards that lacked variation and as an alternative have been all precisely the identical. Thus, the ‘one board flooring’ was born.”
The crew mentioned it selected to construct upon the graduated colour impact seen in ombré textiles, Carlisle mentioned. To reflect the look, Carlisle’s artisans selected a collection of pure tones, together with trending grays and white after which added heavy distinctions between every tone, the corporate added. On the similar time, they aimed to protect the grain sample of the planks and underlying heat of the ground. When the planks are organized in varied configurations, the result’s a collection of distinctive flooring with wealthy depth and construction, based on the corporate.
“We talked throughout our design classes about how we’re ingrained to debate the distinctiveness of every plank,” Sy added. “We describe for our prospects how the grain flows, or how the sapwood is extra prevalent in some boards, or how there could also be a number of planks which have extra knots or extra mineral streaks. What’s most intriguing about our latest idea flooring is the wide range of outcomes you may obtain utilizing a single plank as the muse. The choices are actually countless.”
Carlisle mentioned it presents a broad vary of flooring selections, together with assortment flooring and totally personalized flooring. The most recent idea flooring highlights how similar planks organized in inventive patterns can obtain very completely different aesthetics, considerably increasing the design potentialities, the corporate mentioned.