Wide Plank Flooring

Kentucky

Flooring

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Phone 859-539-2372

Ash has the most spectacular grains of the “blond” woods.  With grain similar to the oaks, ash has a more dramatic difference between the heartwood and sapwood.  The sapwood is a beige color, while the heartwood can be light to medium brown.  Here in Kentucky, ash is one of the most widely used woods for flooring, along with the oaks.  Beautiful in both Select and Natural grades.

American Black Cherry

Along with walnut, cherry is the most utilized and sought-after lumber for the finest furniture in the United States.  And it makes beautiful flooring!  It has a somewhat subdued grain compared to the oaks and ash.  It makes up for this by having beautiful red tones in the heartwood, which get darker with time. The sapwood is creamy white.  Select and Natural grades.  Expensive.

Hickory is the hardest of the commercial American woods.  It has long been used for tool handles, ladders and drumsticks.  It is very hard on tooling.  High speed steel dulls very quickly when machining hickory.  It was not until common usage of CNC (Computer Numerically Controlled) cut carbide tooling that flooring made from hickory has become more common.  It makes beautiful and striking flooring.  The substantial contrast between the brownish-red heartwood, and the almost white sapwood is very eye-catching and appealing.  The distinctive look and sharp contrast in the light and dark colors of hickory produce a look that most folks love.  Offered in Select and Natural.

Wormy maple is the lumber produced when the red maple tree is infested with the ambrosia beetle.  It makes a Natural grade floor.  It will include the natural characteristics of wormy maple lumber:  Heartwood and sapwood, tight knots, and especially the “flags” that are left behind when the baby beetle leaves home.  The flags are streaking left behind from the waste of the larvae being carried up and down the tree.  This leaves a very pleasing and distinctive appearance.  At times this flooring will contain birds-eye and curly maple. 

PS:  The beetles are long gone!

Red oak, along with white oak is one of the cornerstone woods in the American woodworking industry.  It is commonly used in furniture, architectural millwork, kitchen cabinets and flooring.  It’s heartwood color ranges from pinkish to what is called wheat in the hardwood business, the sapwood is whitish.  With it’s deeply defined and instantly recognizable grain, select red oak makes a beautiful floor whether in a refined or rustic setting.  Available in Select and Natural.  If you prefer Natural, we recommend the White Oak!

White oak is the second most utilized hardwood in the United States.  It’s heartwood is honey blond or light tan or brown, while the sapwood is beige.  It has many applications: including flooring, furniture and cabinetry, millwork, and here in Kentucky, Bourbon barrels!  It makes a beautiful floor, whether in the Select or Natural grade.

Yellow Poplar

Poplar is immediately recognized by it’s cream-colored sapwood mixed with light green or yellowish heartwood when freshly milled.  Over time the heartwood will mellow into a light brown color.  Makes an attractive flooring, especially in the Natural grade, where the natural characteristics of the wood shine.  Poplar is a softer hardwood, so over time it will acquire nicks and dings that add to it’s patina.

Walnut is one of America’s most well known and valuable hardwoods.  If you like the darker woods, walnut is for you!  Walnut is just a small percentage of our native forests, which, combined with nuances in the grading rules, makes it the most expensive lumber in the United States.  It’s heartwood has rich dark brown to purplish hues, and is highly sought-after as a furniture wood.  Here in Kentucky, we have an area that bills itself as the Cherry Furniture Capitol of the United States, but is seems that more of their furniture is made from walnut!  Expensive.

White oak is also offered in quarter and rift saw.  This is a specialized and expensive (more labor, less yield) process where the log is turned to be cut at ninety degrees to the normal method of sawing, resulting in the distinctive quartered grain pattern, know as flake.  You have probably seen this in antique oak furniture, especially round tables, which are common here in Kentucky.  The straight-grained rift lumber comes from the log after the quartered lumber has been sawn.  Quartered and rift sawn oak are often seen in high-end homes and upscale commercial buildings.  Red oak available also, in quartered and rift.  Expensive.

Ash Select

Cherry Select

Hickory Select

Hickory Natural

Hickory with Light Stain

Red Oak Natural

Red Oak Select

Red oak Select

Red Oak Select Stained

White Oak Natural

White Oak Select

White Oak Natural

White Oak Natural

Walnut Select

Cherry Select

Hickory Select

Walnut Select

Walnut Natural

Quartersawn White Oak Select

Quartersawn White Oak Natural

Quartersawn Red Oak Select

Quartersawn White Oak

Walnut Natural

Cherry Natural

Ash Select

Hickory Natural

Wormy Maple Natural

Wormy Maple Natural

We hope that your enjoy this photo presentation of our wide plank flooring!  However, please be advised that these photos do not necessarily represent the true appearance of the different species.  This is due to photographic factors such as lighting, camera used, camera user, stains and finishes, and things that we don't understand.  Please give us a call if you have any questions about the apperance of your chosen floor.  We also suggest that you spend time looking at the unlimited photography on the web.  Then give us a call!

Kentucky Flooring Company LLC

5555 Rockwell Road

Winchester, Kentucky 40391

859-539-2372

sales@kentuckyflooringcompany.com

Ash Natural

Wormy Maple

ASH

Hickory

White Oak

Black Walnut

Quartersawn White Oak

RedOak

Cherry Natural