THE FIRST EVER TREEHUGGER WOOD FLOOR. Species Use: Poplar, Walnut, Red Oak, Pine, White Oak, Sweetgum, Maple and 2 Pecan Boards. Sustainable Forestry with solid real wood products. |
| Brian Nelson gets first official
TreeHugger
Wood floor. Brian & I have been buddies since we were 15 yrs old! Cool. |
| You might recognize Brian from the recent Tornado page a couple of weeks ago. Anyway, as that page said, Brian was over to pick up some flooring that he and I put in his new house. So...since the Tornado, we have installed & finished our first floor! The photos don't do it justice. |
 |
| Before. |
 |
| AFTER |
 |
| Close-up. However, I've got a few more below and they all are so delightfully different. |
 |
| Well, the floor you see came from wood that grew on our homeplace.
8 different Walkertown, NC species of tree. We took the trees down - if they weren't already (remember Worst
First!). We pulled them to the mill in a non-destructive manner.
We worked them up on the sawmill, put them in the field to air dry, put
them in the solar kiln (we built), edged them, and then worked them up
with a planer and a four sided planer/molder to be what you see.
Finally, we - with Brian's help - installed those boards in his house.
Lots of work but...Wow! Do I sound excited? You bet! |
| More pictures below. Lighting is as difficult
as you-know-what for floor photos. So...there are some slight
differences between photos but that - of course - is not on purpose.
We love to show them off in real life, so get offline and on over and
we'll give you one of our nickel tours. Please click the pictures to enlarge. |
 |
 |
| Hallway before | While we were installing the hallway. |
| Click Pix to Enlarge | Click Pix to Enlarge & See More Detail |
 |
 |
| Brian's getting the hang of it!
Don't you love it when passing on a little knowledge makes your life easier? |
Hallway with sealer and 2 coats of clear coat finish on it. |
 |
` |
| right side of living room. You can see some pretty good detail here. | Another different closeup. Everywhere you look and every time you look, you notice something different. |
| Click Pix to Enlarge | Click Pix to Enlarge & See More Detail |
 |
 |
| Close-up near railing. | Close-up of a different section |
 |
 |
| .Top of steps and goes into kitchen. Notice the difference in lighting from this to the one on the right. | Entrance to Kitchen The pinkish yellow is not accurate. More accurate to left. |
 |
 |
| Floors eye view | Right side of living room. |
| Thanks for stopping by. The photos don't
do it justice but I hope it gets the idea across. Oh yeah and once
again, sorry for some of the inconsistencies in the lighting. If
you can do better and you work cheap, let me know. If you want more
info on the floors, write me
daniel@stuffwedo.com Or go to treehuggerwoodfloors.com to learn about how we practice sustainable forestry AND produce top quality hardwood floors. |
||||||||
|
|
||||||||
| Yeah, yeah, I know...this is a
repeat of one above but I could not resist. Also, I think this is very close to accurate. Not perfect but one of the better in terms of coloring. |
||||||||
|