Nothing compares to the richness and warmth of real hardwood flooring.Distressed hardwood floors are gaining in popularity and are quickly becoming one of the most common types of hardwood flooring available in the home renovation market. This type of hardwood flooring is scraped, which adds texture and gives each piece of flooring a unique appearance.There are two main types of distressed hardwood floors, ones that have been Hand-scraped and ones that have been machine-scraped. Hand-scraped floors will be truly unique, and will not contain an identifiable pattern. Scraping the surface and edges of the plank by hand takes true skill and a thorough knowledge. Machine-scraped floors are more affordable, but you can often discern a repeating pattern across the surface of the floor .Artemis Design can offer you Hand-scraped Hand distressed engineered flooring At Incredible  low $2.59 sf since we are factory direct.

About Hardwood Floors

Hardwood floors give a room a sense of permanence, stability and warmth. Ninety percent of realtors say that wood floors help a home sell faster and for more money. Even in a small home with minimal square footage, wood floors give a house a well-crafted, “high-end” appearance. Wood floors come in a large number of different species and colors, making design options virtually endless

Forestry Preservation Facts

• Today, there are more than 730 million acres of forest in the U.S. (more than 1 billion acres in Canada).
• There are 70% more hardwood trees growing today than 35 to 40 years ago.
• There are over 6 million new hardwood trees planted every year.
• The U.S. is growing almost twice as much hardwood as it is currently using.

There are several ways hardwood floors are constructed these days, and depending on your home it is important to know just what type of hardwood floor you can install. Before choosing a hardwood floor, there are two key things to determine: subfloor and grade

Subfloor

A wood floor is only as good as its subfloor, this means that knowing what type of subfloor you have is critical. There are two basic types of subfloors: wood and concrete. Wood subfloors are composed of various wood materials which are installed over joists in your home. Wood subfloors include ply-wood, tongue and groove decking, oriented strand board (OSB) and particle board. Concrete subfloors can not be nailed into, which limits your options to wood floors which can be glued or floated.

Grade

Grade refers to exterior ground level in relation to your home. Most wood floors are built for on-grade, meaning the floor is level with exterior grounds, or above-grade locations. In below grade situations, such as basements where concrete subfloors are common your options are limited.

Engineered wood

Engineered wood flooring is composed of multiple layers which are glued together in a cross-grain lamination. Typically these floors consist of a species layer followed by a multi-ply substrate made from another species of wood such as poplar. This process makes the flooring very resistant to expansion and contraction from temperature and moisture. As a result, these floors can be installed anywhere in a home and are suitable for both wood and concrete  subfloors.