Custom Distressed Floors
The art of custom distressing floors is a new trend, popular to the upscale homes being built today. The style comes from the love of antiques and wanting a floor to have an heirloom quality that produces a historic look unique to your home. Creating the textures only hundreds of years could produce. Not the average floor you find every time you walk into some ones home. It can give a home warmth that only time could normally produce. The technique of producing the distressed flooring is a timely and long procedure that is hand done to each individual board making each board one of a kind and not a repetitive cookie cutter look like a machine would produce. Hand scraped is exactly that ~ done by hand. You can choose between heavy, medium and light distressing. The wood can be manipulated to reclaim the look, complete with wormholes and other naturally occurring characteristics. The procedure used to obtain this look include; sandovers to round corners, hand-rubbed staining, rasping to create cow tail marks, wormholes are produced by smacking hand tools against the wood in random patters and creating a long shallow indentation will give the floors a split look. You have an older looking floor with a protective finish that will last years.
All this work is done in our home office in New Egypt, NJ. The time and skill used to create these floors can influence the price to own this artwork. With most things in life, the real thing is hard to imitate and most people know a fake when the see it. A truly hand distressed floor will give a unique, warm rich look to your home that will be an absolute guaranteed conversation piece.