Do you know your hand scraping from your distressing or does a pillowed edge sound like a comfy place to take a nap? No fear, this distressed hardwood flooring article explains each flooring characteristic and shows several examples of each.
Light Distressed
Light distressing creates a subtle surface texture with knicks and grooves on some areas of every plank.
Distressed Natural
Vintage Pearl
Antique Java
Distressed Mocha
Heavy Distressed
Heavy distressing creates a pronounced surface texture with nicks and grooves prominent on most areas of every plank.
Rustic Barnwood
Malibu
Vintage Port
Catalina
Hand Scraped
Hand scraping creates a subtle waviness to the plank surface, with varied intensity from plank to plank.
Malibu
Napa
Distressed Natural
Boardwalk
Saw Marks
A saw mark refers to a series of perpendicular grooves running across the entire plank.
Beachwood Saw Marks
Barnwood Saw Marks
Claw Marks
A claw mark refers to a series of darkened notches found on random planks that resembles a scratch from a tiger or bear claw.
Distressed Natural Claw Mark
Antique Java Claw Mark
Aged
Aged refers to the darkening of the pits and grooves of a floor’s grain, with varied intensity from plank to plank.
Distressed Java
Distressed Natural
Antique Java
Streaks
Streaks refers to dark brushstrokes randomly occurring down the plank.
Distressed Mocha
Distressed Mocha
Pillowed Edge
A pillowed edge refers to the pronounced bevel along a planks edge, emphasizing a plank’s shape and size.
Antique Java
Vintage Port
Napa
Boardwalk
Micro Beveled Edge
A micro-beveled edge refers to the subtle bevel along a planks edge, downplaying a plank’s shape and size.
Distressed Java
Distressed Natural
Vintage Java
Vintage Moonlight
French Bleed
A French bleed refers to the pronounced darkening of the bevel along a planks edge, emphasizing a plank’s shape and size.
Distressed Mocha
Distressed Java
Distressed Natural
Antique Java
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