We believe that what you live on should represent who you are.
We Believe
Nature does not create all wood to be equal and the finest examples of Nature’s exquisite beauty must be respectfully crafted into works of art for future generations.
We Believe
The life effort of each individual timber is ideally revealed through slow and careful craftsmanship done by people who have a passion for wood and who are empowered to create beauty.
We Believe
It is critical to maintain, support, and develop new generations of craftsmen, thereby paying homage to generations of American wood craftsmen whose handwork represents the finest of a long and enduring American manufacturing heritage.
We Believe
It is our responsibility to provide every client with a thoughtful, educational process which clearly defines everything from the value of their investment to the proper methods of installation.
We Believe
What you live on can do more than define your aesthetic vision.
We believe that what you live on should represent who you are.
CHRISTIAN SY, PRESIDENT
The best floors in the World,
White Oak | Chicago, Illinois
no exceptions.
For over 50 years, Carlisle Wide Plank Floors has handcrafted the finest wood floors in America – each one reflecting the natural beauty of the highest quality raw materials available. We take great pride in our time-honored processes, from sourcing the soundest and most reliable timber grown in America’s forests to embracing a level of craftsmanship equally at home with traditional rustic themes or with fashion-forward styles. PAGE 3
Every Carlisle wide plank floor is a masterpiece that’s truly an expression of you. A floor that reflects your sense of style and beauty, and is crafted specifically for you with unmatched pride, passion and purpose. It’s a defining feature in your home and a welcome reminder of where you are, each and every time you walk through the door. It’s a floor and an experience like no other — uniquely you, and unmistakably Carlisle.
The extraordinary quality of Carlisle wide plank floors is matched only by that of the customer experience. We help you choose from a rich variety of wood types, textures, colors and other characteristics to design your custom wood floor. We offer unparalleled service and expert guidance at every turn, making the entire process of creating your one-of-a-kind masterpiece a true pleasure.
Not all wood is created equal. That’s why we forge long-lasting relationships only with those who share our values and vision, from timber growers who adhere to sustainable forestry practices to sawyers who confirm each board meets our — and your — exacting standards. Our forest-tofloor ethic allows us to preserve natural resources while assuring the beauty and quality of every Carlisle wide plank floor.
“For me, each board is a work of art. I know my time is well spent when I hear that our customers tell us their floors are even more beautiful than they could have possibly imagined”
- John Cook, Carlisle Craftsman (pictured above)
CUSTOMER STORIES / 01
GEORGETOWN
When you spend your life with a busy and active family, like William and Samar Langhorne, you want a warm and inviting space to call home. Their original 1960’s Georgetown classic home, while beautiful, did not allow for the design the family wanted. So they worked with architects Rixey-Rixey to get the exact home they did want.
BRINGING NATURE INSIDE
It began with a tear down, to the original foundation, to rebuild the home to 4 stories, from 2 1/2 stories. This created more vertical space to incorporate the architectural details that would come to define the uniqueness of the home including the custom Bulthaup kitchen from Germany, a glass elevator and oversized windows and skylights that let in an abundance of natural light. The home would also come to be just two in the area with energy efficient heating system.
There is a NanaWall between the living room and back yard which, when opened will create a seamless transition between the two spaces, combining the outdoors and the indoors. This creates a comfortable atmosphere and connection to nature, which is hard to obtain when you build in an Urban development.
Location
Georgetown, DC
White Oak | Georgetown, DC
To create this specific look, Carlisle worked with the team to customize a whitewash finish. Since whitewash can be a challenging finish to apply on-site after installation, the flooring was prefinished to order. This saved a tremendous amount of time, since there wasn’t any stain or finished to be applied.
Most prefinished flooring is mass produced in large batches, so from batch to batch you can run the risk of inconsistent colors.
CUSTOM CHOICES
Carlisle is unique in that we use small batch prefinishing methods so we constantly check the floor throughout the finish process to make sure the floor always falls into the color expectations of the floor. This ensures a consistent and high quality finish on every board, throughout the entire floor.
Species Width Lengths White Oak 9”-11” 3 Ft - 14 Ft Random
White Oak | Georgetown, DC
We Handcraft the Impossible
One of the beautiful things about a Carlisle wide plank wood floor is the ability to purchase your floor directly from our mill in New Hampshire and customize it to your specifications. We work with you through the entire process to ensure there’s no limit to your creative design. For over 50 years, we’ve helped our customers shape their unique masterpiece that reflects their extraordinary sense of style.
Shop by phone or in person — we make it easy to find the floor of your dreams.
You can purchase a new floor directly from Carlisle, no matter where you are located. Contact us to start working with a Carlisle Wide Plank Specialist, or to schedule a visit to a Carlisle showroom near you.
Custom flooring For residential, commercial and international interiors.
Carlisle custom floors provide the foundation for unforgettable design in luxury residential and commercial projects including homes, developments, restaurants, hotels, boutique stores and retail spaces.
Worldwide delivery available to your driveway, doorstep or dock.
No matter where you are located, we will work closely with you to set up suitable delivery arrangements for your new floor. We have a worldwide delivery network for national and international shipping.
CUSTOMER
STORIES / 02
SEATTLE
Daniel and Vangie Peppers’ interior design tastes are about as different as night and day. Daniel explains, “My personal style has eclectic chaos. Fortunately, my wife prefers more elegance and quiet.” Their home, set on the banks of Lake Washington in Seattle, reflects a harmony of both styles.
Vangie Pepper had a vision and a Pinterest board long before she ever had the collaborative dream team who would make her design vision a reality. “Even before Pinterest she had folders — one would be labeled powder room; one would be kitchen,” Daniel says of his wife. She brought the Pinterest collection to designer Lisa Staton at the start of the project. “If you look at all the pins (images) as a whole, you can get a strong insight into the essence or emotion
that a client is striving to have in their home,” Staton said. Staton used the images as a basis for inspiration, and to identify the overall look and feel the clients were seeking for their home. She then worked with architect Tim Hossner, of RHO Architects, to translate the mood and style of the images into the revamped spaces and tangible textures, colors, patterns, and furnishings of real life.
Location
Seattle, Washington
Pepper | Seattle, Washingon
Carefully chosen. Highly liveable.
When it came to taking the plunge and make the ultimate selection, the couple chose to go with a Walnut wide plank floor from Carlisle. The 10-inch-wide hardwood drastically reduced the number of noticeable seams and allowed the floor to flow easily from room to room. It blended seamlessly with the overall design and provided far less visual distraction, unlike homes with floors made from narrow planks. Traditional in look and feel, the naturally warm Walnut is balanced by both the width and length of the planks, which are ideal for homes with contemporary, open-concept floorplans.
CUSTOM CHOICES
Every Board Tells A Story, Define Yours
Our custom process allows us to create visually arresting floors that are unmistakably Carlisle. With over 200 years of combined experience in woodworking, Carlisle craftsmen are true artisans with a love and feel for fine wood. They live and breathe it. To them, every grain pattern and color variation tells a story, which will eventually unfold in the floor of your dreams.
WE
HELP YOU CHOOSE
Our in-house design team can customize anything, and will help you consider the best wood flooring choice for your project based on hardness, grain pattern, cut and character, qualities that form the foundation of your floor’s sense of style.
CUSTOMER STORIES / 03
BROOKLINE
There are some interiors that take your breath away, they become even more awe inspiring when you discover the story of how they were created. An historic home in Brookline, Massachusetts may epitomize these sentiments.
After over a century of piecemeal renovations this iconic structure in Brookline’s 19th century residential history had become a deceivingly decrepit, nearly uninhabitable abode. Enter an ambitious Belgian, intent on relocating to the Boston area and settling on this historic property. Little did he know the extent to which the building would need to be renovated to make it not just beautiful, but habitable.
Now enter a Boston-based “intentionally small, full service architectural firm”, BUTZ + KLUG Architecture, with a knack for extraordinary beauty and an eye for detail. This combination of client and architect would be just what the home needed to bring it back to greatness. Working arm in arm with the construction firm, Bay Point Builders, the work began.
Location
Brookline, Massachusetts
White Oak Herringbone | Brookline, Massachusetts
CS03 | Brookline, Massachusetts
The architect worked closely with the design team at the Carlisle Boston Showroom, and helped create a wood floor design that would fulfill the homeowner’s exact vision.
Given the historic significance of the space, wide plank White Oak with a unique “brushed” surface was the perfect fit; the dimension and texture were appropriate for the scale of the interwoven spaces as well as looking completely at home in a 19th century building – strip oak floors would not only have been lost in the scale of the spaces, but would have minimized the authentic look of the home. The only exception to this was the use of a custom herringbone plank floor in the family room – another European inspired floor design, that remains popular “across the pond.”
CS03 | Brookline, Massachusetts
Carlisle Sample Shop | Stoddard, New Hampshire
Explore Collections
Derived from the most popular customer creations, our Carlisle Collections have been carefully selected to combine some of the most unique combinations for wood, grade, finish, and texture on your journey to finding the perfect floor; maybe it already exists. Your Wide Plank Specialists can help you understand the available choices in grade, width, and texture on almost any Collection giving you the freedom to create your own ideal combination of individual choices.
CARLISLE CATALOG 2021
CASUAL
COLLECTION
WEATHERED WINDMILL WEEKEND COTTAGE
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES WIDTH
LENGTHS
TEXTURE
STRUCTURE
SEVENTH HEAVEN
WINTER LIGHT
OCEAN SAND
Start with the warm, inviting tones, including organic color variations, and captivating white oak grain patterns in our Naturals Casual Collection of prefinished wide plank wood flooring. It’s the perfect foundation for making your home a relaxing haven.
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES
WIDTH
LENGTHS
TEXTURE
SHEEN
STRUCTURE
Hickory
8 Inch
2’ - 12’ Random Smooth
Extra Matte
Solid or Engineered
EARTHEN
COLLECTION
The simplicity of nature is no more apparent than in the foundation from which all things grow. From repeated flooding of fertile valleys to the ancient flow of lava, from the heaving ocean floor to the erosion of rocks over eons, what results is the life-giving force of soil. Each product in our Earthen Collection is a different type of soil with the subtle and variable colors one would expect from such natural inspiration. Building upon the beautiful color changes in our Hickory planks we have created a series of softer colors — from light to dark, that will leave you feeling connected to this incredible source of growth.
ALLUVIUM
HUMUS
ARGIL
KAOLIN
CHALK
REGUR
FEATURED | KAOLIN
SINCERITY
SPECIFICATIONS
S PECIES
WIDTH
LENGTHS
Rift & Quartersawn White Oak
8 Inch
TEXTURE
2’ - 12’ Random Smooth Super Matte
SHEEN
STRUCTURE
Solid & Engineered
CHAMPAGNE TOAST
CHOCOLATE TRUFFLE
ALABASTER
SANDY POINT
VALLEY FOG
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES
WIDTH
LENGTH
TEXTURE
White Oak 10 Inch
4’ - 12’ Random Brushed Extra Matte
SHEEN Solid STRUCTURE
EMPIRIUM
COLLECTION
In the Empirium Collection, boards with character are carefully chosen to enhance your home with their enduring beauty. Carlisle craftsmen know the knots, figuring, grain patterns and other inclusions chronicle the timber’s history. Because we select each board for these with care and attention, it is some of the most authentic and durable wood you can experience. These floors are exceptionally unique in their detailing. Every plank is naturally beautiful, selected for it soundness, and hand finished specifically to enhance its appearance… and your living space.
ACADIA DENALI
BISCAYNE RAINIER
CASCADES TETON
SPECIFICATIONS
Hand Finished Product
SPECIES
WIDTH
LENGTHS
TEXTURE
SHEEN
STRUCTURE
White Oak
6 Inch
2’ - 10’
Random
Smooth
Extra Matte
Engineered
ESSENTIALS
COLLECTION
From the versatile comfort of Cashmere to the soft mystery of Velvet, the Essential Collection offers a go-to wardrobe for your floors. Inspired by time-honored fabrics and materials, the collection pairs durable white oak with sought-after color tones that transform spaces. Like favorite items of clothing that pair with everything, the wide plank flooring options in this collection are true essentials.
LEATHER CASHMERE
SUEDE
PEWTER
MERINO TWEED
PEARL
VELVET
SPECIFICATIONS
2’ - 12’ Random
BEACH PATHWAY CLIFF WALK
CROSSROADS
NATIVE WAYPOINT
OLD BRIDLE PATH WINDWARD
EXPLORE
COLLECTION
If you relish heading in new directions, our Explore Collection is for you. This eclectic collection of White Oak hardwood floors was inspired by the many paths we take through life, from the tried-and-true to the more adventurous.
FEATURED | BEACH PATHWAY
INSPIRE
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES
WIDTH
COLLECTION White Oak 8 Inch
LENGTHS
TEXTURE
2’ - 12’ Random Brushed Super Matte
SHEEN Solid or Engineered
STRUCTURE
ASCENT
AWAKING SUN
DAWN
The beauty and endurance of the natural world has inspired humankind from the beginning of time. We feel energized, more creative, and more at peace with ourselves when we integrate with nature. This collection celebrates the inspiration that comes from eternal natural features and the impact they have upon our souls.
SPECIFICATIONS
White Oak 7 Inch 2’ - 10’ Random
FOREST LAND*
WHISKEY BARREL
PORCH SWING*
FIRESIDE TALE*
HANDKNIT
TIMBER BARN
PRESERVATION
COLLECTIO N | INTRODUCED IN 2024
When creating the Preservation Collection, we were inspired by the floors that defined the tradition of wide planks. Floors crafted in a time when the entire timber was used. A time when each board was cut by hand. A time when the design of a floor was simply the reflection of a timber’s life. Paying homage to the origins of these floors our expert craftsmen work to tell the whole story of the tree in every board.
FEATURED | HANDKNIT
FEATURED | TREEHOUSE
HIDEAWAY
COLLECTION
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES WIDTH LENGTHS
Hickory, White Oak
8 Inch
2’ - 12’ Random Brushed Extra Matte
TEXTURE SHEEN Solid or Engineered STRUCTURE
MEDITATION
TREEHOUSE
SATURDAY EVENING
WINDING PATH
SNOW DRIFT
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES
WIDT
LENGTH
TEXTURE
SHEEN
STRUCTURE
White Oak
8 Inch
2’ - 12’ Random Smooth Satin
Solid or Engineered
TRADITIONAL
COLLECTION
There’s a certain reassurance and confidence that goes with traditions. And that’s exactly what you’ll get for your home with our Traditional collection of White Oak hardwood floors. Available in classic hues that reflect a time-honored elegance, they bring an inherent warmth and character to any space in your home.
AQUILA FOREST PATH
MARBLE TABLE
LEATHER CHAIR
PICTURE FRAME
WOODEN SPOON
FEATURED | PICTURE FRAME
SPECIFICATIONS
SPECIES
WIDTH
LENGTHS
TEXTURE
SHEEN
White Oak
8 Inch
2’ - 12’ Random Smooth Super Matte
Solid or Engineered STRUCTURE
In a world defined by chaos, competition and constant change, finding tranquility is becoming harder every day. That’s why we decided to develop the Tranquil Collection, a collection of floors where the warm organic character of the timber is carefully maintained by our craftsmen so that you can feel the calming nature… of nature. Layered over the story of each timber are six unique finishes inspired by those little things in life that bring us comfort, stability, and refuge from the bustling world around us. Step into your space and feel the immediate relief from floors that bring you shelter, asylum and bliss.
EDEN HAVEN
OASIS
SANCTUARY REFUGE
ELYSIAN
FEATURED | ELYSIAN
Customer Creations
Straight from the Carlisle Concept Studio, find inspiration from real projects where customers started from scratch, choosing their wood, inventing their color, defining their grade, texture and width. Interested in the next level of customization, beyond our Collection flooring? Consider working through a product development process with your Wide Plank Specialist and our team of wood and color experts. The options are truly limitless, and the slate is blank. With our broad capabilities and your imagination, we are certain we can achieve nearly anything you envision.
CARLISLE WIDE PLANK FLOORS
White Oak | Miami, Florida
ID# 10456
White Oak | Traditional Collection | Aquila
ID# 11158
ID# 10782
Walnut | Squam Lake, New Hampshire
ID# 11441
Rift & Quartersawn White Oak | Plano, Texas
White Oak | East Hills, NY | Spector London
ID# 11610
Heart Pine | Nantucket, Massachusetts ID# 11610
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Urban Collection
Custom White Oak | Nashville, Tennessee
Hickory | Ogunquit, Maine
ID# 10763
ID# 10367
ID# 11154
Cherry Herringbone | Edgartown, Massachusetts
ID# 11618
White Oak Chevron | Picture Frame | Bedford, New York
