Cherry Floors For A Lovely Abode

Whether you are designing and building your own home or simply want to refurbish your current home, flooring is a serious consideration as it will set the tone of the room for years to come. Cherry flooring is a beautiful hardwood option to consider if you are thinking about putting in wooden flooring.

Cherry wood is a popular choice for flooring because of its unique properties. It has a warm reddish tone and is a high quality hardwood that can be polished to stunning lustrous finish. It graces any home with a warm and inviting atmosphere and enhances the beauty of any living space.

This wonderfully versatile wood is gathered from a sustainable harvest. Cherry trees are grown on vast plantations until their maturation, when they are cut down and their wood is harvested. Once this is done new cherry trees are planted to replace the original trees, meaning that the natural forests are left as they are and cherry wood manufacture does not contribute to deforestation.

Due to the fact that cherry wood is a hardwood, this makes it incredibly hard wearing, resistant to scuffs and marks and easy to maintain. Cherry should never be stained as it will take away from the natural lustre and individual color of this fine hardwood. It is known for having a fine, straight grain pattern with a smooth texture and brown pith flecks. The natural color ranges from a medium shade of reddish-brown to a deep rich red tone.

There are many varying locations where this hardwood is grown, but is origins can be traced to the great forests of North America. Its popularity has made it a sought after commodity world wide, which is good news for the average buyer who wants to grace their home with this high quality product.

Cherry wood flooring is cut into seven or eight inch lengths of varying thickness and is popularly cut into the tongue and groove style that clicks into position for a smooth join. Some makers prefer the traditional manner of fixing the wood in place with nails upon a wooden frame, but the former method lends itself to use on concrete flooring.

Some basic maintenance and a little extra care will go a long way to ensuring the beauty of your floors for many years. As with any floor, but particularly so with cherry wood flooring, its worst enemy is the dirt and grit that we tend to bring indoors with regular traffic from room to room. Like sandpaper, it causes scuffs, scrapes and scratches, leaving floors damaged and dull.

Water is woods worst enemy and if a floor is not properly sealed it cannot only stain the wood, but can cause it to warp. Be sure to mop up any sort of spill immediately to maintain the integrity of your floor. Many a wooden floor has been damaged by dragging heavy furniture across it.

Sunlight causes UV damage to our skin and it also bleaches wooden flooring. Install blinds that are resistant to UV light and be sure to draw curtains during the hours that natural sunlight enters a room with cherry wood flooring.