Pictures of a #1 Hickory floor in a nice home in Little Rock, Arkansas

Natural Finish

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Rustic Hickory with a Skip-Sawn Distress

And Rustic #2 and #3 Hickory Floor in a Cabin, with Cedar Stairs

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Pictures of a Rustic Hickory Floor with a Ship Deck Distressed in Russellville, Arkansas

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6 inch Rustic Hickory Floor in a Log Cabin, stained with Nutmeg

This is a more recent floor in a log cabin over near Norfork that we did in 2009.   It’s a 6 inch rustic Hickory, solid wood floor, stained with a Nutmeg Stain.

This is a Hickory floor that we did back in 2004 for a builder in Harrison, AR.  This was a very nice home, out in the woods, and the builder wanted a “rustic” theme, so he chose a hickory floor, but wanted a border around the entire area.   You can see at the entry in the front, we bordered around a tile entry area.   This floor was one of the most unique floors that we had done at the time, and was before the hand scraped and distressed period that we are currently in.

This is a floor that we did back in 1997.  The owners of the home wanted something fairly rustic to go with their fireplace, pine wood walls and rustic cabin decor.   They decided on a 5 inch #1 Hickory which you can see here.   Hickory has a lot of colors mixed in.  Some boards are light as maple, and others are dark as walnut.  The 5 inch width, makes the floor seem a bit less “busy” and this floor was finished with just a natural clear satin finish.  We also did a set of Hickory Stairs in this home.

There are about as many kinds of distressed floors as there are individual tastes.    We have clients ask about distressed floors all the time, nearly weekly.  My most used comment about distressed floors is, “One person’s distressing is another person’s destruction”.    A lot of people, in past years myself included, would just cringe at the thought of a distressed or beat up floor.  But distressed floors have become very popular in the past few years, and we’ve done our share of them.

They come in every form.   From what I would call a “light distressing” which would include some “worm hole” looking areas, a few deep natural looking scratches, and various dents and dings.  To a wholesale hand scraping, which we have done quite a bit of, and that has it’s own section on the website.  There are saw mark distresses, and what we call “ship’s deck” which is done with a chisel or a gouge, and takes out a pretty good chunk of wood here and there.

I would also include the “reclaimed” wood in this category.   We have access to suppliers that have wood that has been reclaimed out of old barns or factories that have a special patina that you just can’t get with what most would call “new wood”.    This type of material can get very expensive, mainly just because of supply and demand….or mainly just supply, because there is a very limited quantity of this material around.  These types of floors really give the client a floor that is truly unique however.