Use antique hardwood flooring for a rich warm look to your home

Attractions like antique hardwood flooring are possible only through salvage of hardwood from old buildings, as the slow growing wood of earlier centuries is not available from todays forests. Various suppliers can provide vintage antique hardwood floor of an earlier age that is not available from fresh lumber.

Beautiful antique flooring reclaimed from hardwood of dismantled buildings has a character and texture that only many years of use can give. For a traditional and aged look with a touch of history there is nothing better than Ridgeview Hardwoods antique flooring.

Types of antique flooring available from Ridgewood Hardwoods include American Oak, American Chestnut, White Pine, Yellow Pine and Heart Pine, in rustic and distressed grades. The distressed grade has more beautiful color variation and character markings.

Quality antique American Oak flooring is milled from a mix of old red and white oak. American chestnut, a beautiful wood that once dominated the American hardwood forests but is now rare, is re-milled into Antique American Chestnut flooring. The tall and straight White Pine once popular as firm masts in British Navy ships in colonial times and as plank flooring in New England homes is now available as antique flooring.

Antique Yellow Pine flooring of the Northern Hard Pine species is mainly from agricultural buildings in the Mid-Atlantic and New England states while Antique Heart Pine flooring of the Southern Yellow Pine variety was used mainly as structural timber.

List prices are for hardwood flooring as solid kiln-dried, tongue and grooved long length (2 to 12) back-relieved planking with pre-squared ends. Standard length (1 to 8) is generally priced 10% lower.