Source: CUSTOM HOME Magazine
Publication date: January 1, 2007
By CUSTOM HOME Staff
Style & StabilityD-Series six-ply, engineered, solid heart pine plank flooring installs quickly and can be stained and finished on-site. The 1/8-inch-thick solid heart pine wear layer can be refinished up to three times, the company says. Southern Wood Floors. 888.488.7463. www.southernwoodfloors.com.
Modern RusticThe Hand Scraped bamboo flooring collection features rippled surfaces and beveled edges in 6-inch-wide planks. Cordovan brown and black finished planks feature the bamboo stalks' nodal pattern while the fruit-wood-finished planks feature the edgegrain. GreenWood Products. 866.593.4454. www.greenwoodflooring.com.
Yin & YangStrips of factory fall-off create the light and dark stripes of Nature's Beauty Fine Line flooring . The multi-species planks are 7 5/8 inches wide and 87 inches long. Junckers Hardwood. 800.878.9663. www.junckershardwood.com.
Picture PerfectCreated in a process that uses ceramic glazes like printing inks, Metro porcelain tiles feature the graphic image of a heavily rusted metal surface. The coppery russet color is broken by steel-blue splotches and streaks for a corroded industrial look. Imagine Tile. 800.680.8453. www.imaginetile.com.
Exotic StreakNeopolitan flooring is made from strands of honey and dark bamboo woven together and compressed into a dense block, then milled into planks.
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