That was a surprise, it's quite featureless planked, and even like this you couldn't see that ring pattern very much but after oiling it really id beautiful. Our bedroom is predominantly hornbeam and a smattering of the fruit and nut stuff, that looks good too.
They are. The fruit and nut is a little 'busy' for my taste. I'm a very plain Jen.
It's a very small area, and it kind of works there, it's much more toned down in our bedroom where it's 60+% hornbeam looks good there too, might take a photo if I remember
Nick
Joined: 02 Nov 2004 Posts: 34535 Location: Hereford
Yes, v hard wearing. BUT, water is it's enemy! there are gaps between tiles, if you knock a jug of water over (blinking kids) however quickly you act the sides of tiles absorb the moisture and tiles pop up here and there, they settle back down quite quickly but you have to be aware that it's a risk. You can get round this by filling the gaps with silicon (in the old days pitch) but we didn't want to do that.
I bet. We had unsealed oak. It looked and felt lovely, but stained terribly with any water. Worked fine with underfloor heating, but didn't stand up terribly well to our heavy wear. I like the idea of a fruit and nut floor!
Why did you go for end grain Tahir? It looks very effective, but must have been a lot of work to produce and possibly less stable than planking. Just interested.
Why did you go for end grain Tahir? It looks very effective, but must have been a lot of work to produce and possibly less stable than planking. Just interested.
Because most of the timber was small and not straight, plus we liked it
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