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Brazilian Cherry Floors installed & painting completed 09-11-09
Comments (9)LONG but I wanted to tell Jeri all this about my floor in case she is interested in it or her husband is. Jeri, I was so surprised at how much grain Brazilian Cherry has also and there are more boards with more grain I wanted to send in pictures of but I knew that I sent enough pictures before I would bore all of you. I think if you go with a sawn cut engineered or a solid wood plank that is 5" wide (that is what my BR-111 planks are and fit together very tightly IF you have a good installer like my second installer since I floated the floor so 3-M tape was supposed to be used for 1 hour), you will see all the grain. When you walk on the floor, it feels like a solid hardwood floor and you can't tell that it was floated. I floated it for the tiny bit of give and for the extra insulation using the Floor Muffler with the Ultra Seal. I was afraid that gluing it down wood make the floor colder (I have little dogs that walk on the floor so I was thinking of them) and would be a harder surface to walk on. No one can tell so far that has visited that it is engineered with 3M of real wood over plywood. I had wanted Brazilian Cherry for the longest time but kept trying to fall in love with other wood species due to the change in color and fear of it getting too dark. I was amazed that if you leave all furniture off and open all the windows for about 3 weeks that the wood gets richer and darker without being too dark. I have not seen any more darkening up but if there is any, it is subtle since under the TV stand and under the cabinets when moved, there is no color change that I can see. The wood was so brown when I first opened the boxes that I was disappointed and had wished I spent more and went with the Santos Mahogany that I love and still love (Was more money so that is why I went with Brazilian Cherry since the two woods are so similar) but it sat in the family room for awhile until I found a painter and a flooring guy to install it so maybe exposure to oxygen quickens up the darkening process? I also am in an interior townhouse and most of my lights are not overhead but floor lamps if that makes a difference but I do keep all the blinds open in the day time with my big windows in my family room and the floor has not darkened up more and under the TV stand (has wheels) is the same color. The wood in person is very neutral and is brown and orangey brown with a few boards being a reddish-brown. At night with the lights on, it looks more red. It is always beautiful in color and very interesting with the varied grain and goes so well with my cherry desk and credenza and looks nice against the putty cabinets, the Bone White walls, the taupe sofa or any other color that I have near it. There is an amazing abundance of grain with the floor so interesting and not boring which shocked me at first since I had wanted a floor with little grain like I saw in the 3.25" board samples I had here but now I am liking the interesting grain. I chose Brazilian Cherry since it is good with dryness in case I am sleeping and do not have the humidifiers on in the winter time until I wake up. So far no buckling which is good. The wood is very good with dog pee which I know from my experiments from soaking wood in dog pee and now from actual use with my little dog Lexi marking. It cleans up easily and does not turn black. She has been very good since I got the floor and is now marking more outside in the back yard and only once in awhile needing to put her scent on the floor and does not go back to the area that I clean so that is good. I bought the wood from TrueHardwoods.com and no one locally could match their price but I did find two other online stores with similar prices for the 3.25" and the 5" widths. I chose TrueHardwoods.com due to my neighbor having such success. Again, Jeri thanks for the compliments....See MoreBrazilian Cherry Floors installed & painting completed 09-11-09
Comments (10)Thank you Laurie_2008 for the compliments on the changes that I have made and on my cute little dogs that are so lovable and really enhance my life. Les917, thank you for the compliments on my choice of floors and I also feel they are warm and rich and went so well with my decor. I just sometimes wonder if I should have went with the 3.25" width. I chose the wider width feeling with my little dogs, that the less seams the better I would be. I agree that one day I should buy a flat screen TV that would really free up space by being on the wall rather than the 17 year old oak TV Stand that I bought new rubber wheels for. I will share pics when that happens but for now I am going to spend the money on my kitchen first as prices for LCD screens go down. Then I will be posting and asking for advice. Les917, you have an eye for detail and furniture arrangement. I agree that the new layout would be so much better for walking into the room but when viewing my room and picturing it I realized that I would be looking into my home office which I do not want to do. I will ask some friends if some silk plants can block that area. I did look at new TV stands that were more modern and sleek but then if I buy one to fit this TV, it may not fit a new TV in the future so I added rubber wheels instead and decided to fix up the kitchen first. I still need a picture in the family room but I don't want to add framed pictures until I am sure of the set up with my furniture. I did buy the colorful silk flowers for the coffee table and I love them. I had the white ones in my bedroom and I miss them there but for now, I wanted my family room to have some more accessories and color. So far I like the arrangement better than the sofa on the wall facing the kitchen since then the TV had to be too close to the kitchen and did not feel like the rooms were separate and the white cable cord really showed up on the floor since where the TV is now, is where the cable cord is. I could of course have it moved to another wall but first I want to be absolutely sure the TV would be permanent there since it is costly for a service call to move the cable jack....See Morepainting cherry cabinets white in Kitchen
Comments (4)We had tumbled marble back splash that we just ripped put. The counters are going to honed absolute black w/white subway tile. The Cherry is being painted. I put it in 12 yrs ago and have never been a fan. Too dark w/no contrast w/floors. My mistake when i picked all of them out designing kitchen. Island is off white but has yellowed....See MoreLighten up busy-looking baltic brown/travertine kitchen on a budget
Comments (75)HELP with new barstool, dining chairs, paint color. What barstool and dining chair designs and colors would work best? I'm still leaning towards a green paint shade and have ordered a couple samples of Behr's Sustainable and Sage Brush to try out. (BTW, everdebz, my paint prior to Oak Buff was Swiss Coffee throughout the entire house! First thing I did upon moving in, and then ten years ago I repainted the entire place with the help of a designer!) Requirements for stools and chairs -- comfortable (padded with backs), semi low profile, and small depth front-to-back. (My dining table pedestal prevents pushing the side chairs very far in under the glass top, and I don't like them sticking out a lot when not in use. Guess my table is too large for my space, but I don't want to replace it.) Here's a pick of a barstool I got from Amazon to try out, plus new picks of my existing furnishings/colors and the two paint colors: EDIT - don't like the stool coz it's too chunky and the fabric and leg colors don't work with my the dining room. Back to drawing board on stools......See Morekaysd
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