wood floor, white walls

    These floors are total perfection. What kind of wood are they?

    (yikes, I don't remember where this is from...)

    Comments and faves

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      nathalie.cone, matte stephens, Espaço Marí Monteiro, ++ Lisa D ++, and 78 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. verhext (51 months ago | reply)

      Kevin: hard to tell.... Maybe southern white pine. Maybe hemlock, Maybe bleached fir. Definitely not a hard wood.

      (hee)

    3. verhext (51 months ago | reply)

      I am finding this all amusing. I think he needs a wood blog.

      I also really enjoy that he smells of cedar and cypress a lot.

    4. Martha W McQuade (51 months ago | reply)

      the grain and color look a little bit like ash.

    5. verhext (51 months ago | reply)

      me: someone else said ash on the floors
      which is a hard wood, no?
      are you failing the WOOD ID GAME?
      Kevin: They could be ash! It would be a dark young ash though.

      (i should be working...)

    6. Caroline Pops♥ (51 months ago | reply)

      looks like it has been limed?

    7. Anna @ D16 (51 months ago | reply)

      If Kevin starts a wood blog, I will be all over it. I am horrible at wood-ID!

      Tell him the house is in Sweden. I thought spruce or pine?

    8. Laurie | Liquid Paper (51 months ago | reply)

      ugh. beautiful.

    9. verhext (51 months ago | reply)

      me: anna says the house with the wood floors is in sweden
      does that change your mind about wood
      Kevin: NO. in fact it makes me think hemlock or pine more.
      me: what about spruce?
      Kevin: very possible. crappy for most applications. Bugs and dryrot get it.
      indoors it wood be fine.

      this is silly. we're making him a site for his furniture design and building stuff. will definitely add a wood blog ;D

    10. Hacke (51 months ago | reply)

      I live in Sweden, I am an architect, I have been working selling wooden boards, my family owns a forest and my grand father used to own a saw mill.... So I should be perfectly able to answer if this is spruce or fir... but I'm not! Quite embarrassing! :-/

      Anyway, I looked it up. Spruce has small and evenly spread twigs, fir has often bigger but more sparely spread twigs.... not much of a clue. But I think it's fir because the wood has a darker core, spruce is more evenly coloured.

      I can't figure out if this floor is original or not. This apartment looks posh, maybe the floor used to be parquetry in the old days. Nowadays, people sometimes remove the worn floor to expose the underlying boards. But those boards often have a lot of twigs. This floor on the other hand looks very nice and clean, which makes me suspect it's put in later sometime.... Hmm...

    11. Avant-Gardenist (42 months ago | reply)

      i love you just the way you are, please come h ♥ m e
      .

    12. ° cris ° (searching for testimonials :) (42 months ago | reply)

      Hi, I'm an admin for a group called ° Interior Design ° Post 1/Comment 1 - VOTE NOW!, and we'd love to have this added to the group!

    13. lismonik (40 months ago | reply)

      this picture and floor is great!
      but do You know after these months, what species of wood is in Your picture? do You have ony others pictures of this floor, maybe this wood?

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