Antique Wood Floor – Floor That Withstands the Test of Time

Using old wood to create a classic antique look, you can thematically weave your home’s interiors around an epoch long gone by. An antique wood floor creates an extraordinarily warm look - rustic yet distinctly stylish. Using an antique wood in flooring is one of the most popular trends in the flooring industry today for those who have the taste and can afford it.

The timber for antiquarian wood flooring is generally restored from derelict old barns and buildings and from beams of demolished warehouses. The nail holes, bolt holes, weathered cracks and rich patina adds a captivating character to the flooring in your home, giving that unique, amaranthine charm. The greater the character markings and color variations, the more is the vintage appeal ingrained in the wood.

Antique flooring is available in a variety of woods. What adds value to this type of flooring is that, like antiques, the lumber and timber reclaimed to get this timeless look in flooring are not found easily and most certainly cannot be duplicated in today’s forests. Some of the categories of antique flooring available for you to paint the annals of history in your home are listed here

- Restored from a mix of red and white oak of dismantled barns, mills, and factories, antique Oak flooring lends a pastoral, ageless appeal.
- Hard to find and fine-looking, antique Chestnut flooring from the almost extinct American chestnut is restored carefully from dilapidated dismantled barns, mills, and farmhouses.
- Antique White Pine flooring, the prime timber species used in construction in New England in early American times, is creatively remodeled from demolished mills, barns, sheds, and even old homes.
- Antique Yellow Pine makes a hardwearing floor that exudes a warm rustic splendor.
- A tight, dense wood, Heart pine that originally provided the structural timbers needed to build the factories and warehouses of early industrial America is refashioned to give you a magnificently archaic flooring option. Also worth a look is bamboo flooring for another elegant option.