If you've ever wanted to do an upgrade for your home where you could somehow combine both the modern and traditional, then Vintage Elements may be exactly what you need.
Let's start with French oak flooring.
Specifically, we'll look at reclaimed French oak flooring from centuries–old manors, farmhouses and barns actually located in France. These homes and buildings are weathered, worn and decaying. However, the planks and beams of Oak are much sturdier and thicker. True antique floors. The original French oak floor is reclaimed, milled, or delivered in their original state at your preference. The planks have an unparalleled richness and warmth of color and authentic appearance– individual pieces retain their character, scars, knotholes, nail marks and cracks. Whether milled or not, the reclaimed wood creates a stunning impression in your home.
These authentic antique French oak planks were reclaimed from abandoned decaying and crumbling farmhouses and barns throughout France. Their age produces an almost black surface, the color stems from the oxidation effect of tannic acid found in oak. Only antique oak bears this visual effect. The process takes an extremely long time to produce, and is a good indicator of the age of reclaimed boards. We will leave this aged black surface untouched, which distinguishes our boards from beam-cut or younger reclaimed flooring. We clean and denail these planks, kiln dry them, and then mill them to your specifications. Our standard thickness is ¾ inches. We rip the planks in four to five standard widths for easier installation. Lengths can exceed 15' and widths are up to 18 inches. The milled antique oak planks still have cracks, wormholes and nail marks in them, which produces a time-worn patina unmatched by new wood flooring options. In addition, we offer traditional parquet made from these dark-surface oak planks. Whether it is a Herringbone or Chevron pattern or the intricate interwoven technique of Versailles or Chantilly parquet slabs, our antique French oak will produce masterpieces of dark antique flooring.
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