Country of Origin:Brazil, South America

About Brazilian Ebony:

Brazilian Ebony, because of it dark tone, is one of the few wood species used in flooring which maintains it’s true color over time. The heartwood is the part most often used and it can be anywhere from jet black to deep maroon, to a chocolate brown or even a purplish black-brown color.

Occasionally there are light streaks throughout the wood. Brazilian Ebony’s sapwood when freshly cut displays these pink streaks which will deepen to a deep red-brown color over time when exposed to sun or air.

Brazilian Ebony has a fine grain that falls in a variable pattern that can be anywhere from straight to very curly.

This flooring choice is extremely durable and is ideal for high traffic areas. It is dent resistant and rated much harder than North American hardwoods on the Janka scale due to it’s density.

Brazilian Ebony makes a dramatic statement and is an elegant choice for high-end residential and commercial spaces.

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Country of Origin: Australia

About Australian Cypress:

Australian Cypress has a heartwood that ranges from honey-gold tones to a range of browns with darker knots interspersed throughout. The knots can be small or large. It’s sapwood is cream-colored and it has a tight closed grain. As it ages, Australian Cypress will amber in color, turning more golden in hue.

Although it is technically a softwood, Australian Cypress is 7% harder than Northern red oak.

Australian Cypress is also known for it’s natural resistance to termites.

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Country of Origin: Brazil

About Cumaru:

The sapwood of cumaru is very similar to the heartwood, which ranges from medium to dark brown in color, sometimes with a reddish or purplish hue, with some pieces streaked with yellowish or greenish brown.

Over time the color of Brazilian Teak (as it is sometimes referred to) will “flatten out” slightly. Cumaru’s color tends to lighten with exposure to light. The species has a fine, uniform interlocked grain with very small open pores.

Cumaru is extremely durable and decay resistant. Although, it is not totally impervious to some insect attacks.

Cumaru is relatively inexpensive and represents a great deal given its strength and hardness.

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Country of Origin: Portugal

About Cork:

Comprised of a nearly-countless number of individual air-filled cells, cork offers a very unique appearance. Depending upon how the flattened bark is cut, cork can reveal any of a number of distinctive surface designs.

Cork is a renewable and sustainable alternative to traditional wood flooring. The Cork Oak’s bark is harvested every nine years. The tree is unharmed and regenerates after each harvest. In manufacturing cork flooring, the cork material is ground up, urethane binders are added and the cork is subjected to pressure and heat to produced the desired density.

Cork is resilient and durable. It is resistant to wear and has a cushioning feel underfoot. It flexes and absorbs shock. The softness and give of cork flooring protects it from the wear-and-tear and grinding of normal foot traffic, giving it an advantage over harder surfaces such as hardwood floors. If you dent cork, it will likely regain its shape. Cork flooring has a very long life and is easy to repair.

Cork provides thermal and acoustic insulation as a natural consequence of its cellular structure. It is an ideal solution to reducing unwanted noise within a space and between rooms and separate floors. It also maintains an even temperature and is able to prevent heat loss. Cork is a natural thermal insulator because its cells trap air.

Cork is impermeable to liquids and gases and will not degrade with moisture. Cork is anti-allergenic, anti-microbial and resists mildew. Cork neither absorbs dust, nor does it shed fibers or outgas chemicals.

Cork contains a waxy substance called Suberin. Suberin functions as a natural insect repellent. Cork is resistant to over 38 species of insects, including termites. Suberin also repels mold and mites. Suberin also prevents cork from rotting even when completely submerged under water for long periods of time. Suberin also makes cork fire resistant.

A cork floor would be maintained in the same way as a wood floor. It can be swept and lightly mopped with water and a mild cleaner.

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Country of Origin: Central America

About Cocobolo:

Cocobolo is somewhat variable in color from yellow, orange, red, to shades of brown with streaks of black or purple. The heartwood usually ages to a deep rich orange-red with black striping or mottling on exposure to light and air. Its sapwood is often a very pale yellow. Colors are pale when freshly sanded and darken with age.

This oily wood has a fine-to-medium texture with a straight interlocked grain and low luster. It has small to medium sized pores.

A rosewood, Cocobolo has natural oils that make it resistant to decay.

Cocobolo is in short supply and high demand and can be expensive. It is prized for its lovely color and figure.

Cocobolo is said to be stronger and denser than Brazilian Rosewood.

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Country of Origin: USA

About Chestnut:

Chestnut’s heartwood is a grayish-brown to brown color. Its sapwood is white to light brown. It has a straight, occasionally spiraled grain. Its texture is mainly course.

Chestnut is known for its high resistance to decay.

As a wood flooring choice, chestnut is one of the softer options available. It is about thirty percent harder than white pine, is sixty percent as hard as cedar, is about fifty percent as hard as teak, just under forty percent as hard as red oak, roughly thirty-five percent as hard as hard maple, about one third as hard as wenge, and about twenty-five percent of santos mahogany.

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Country of Origin: USA

About Black Cherry:

Prized for its rich color and fine graining, black cherry is commonly seen in American cabinetry and furniture. The fine, satiny texture of the wood is uniform and frequently wavy, with distinctive gum veins and pockets. The lustrous heartwood ranges from a light pinkish brown when freshly cut to a dark reddish or golden brown when aged and exposed to light. Black cherry is extremely light-sensitive, so there is a strong color change and darkening over a short period time when the wood is first exposed to light. Cherry’s colors can be rapidly darkened and aged through exposure to direct sunlight.

The sapwood stands in sharp contrast with the heartwood. It is often a pale yellow to light brown to a light pinkish tone. Black Cherry has a fine texture with closed pores. Its grain is often straight, except in figured pieces which have a curly grain pattern.

Black Cherry’s heartwood is very durable and decay resistant. The wood has a good strength-to-weight ratio.

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Country of Origin: USA

About Cedar:

Eastern red cedar is marked by a thin, white or pale yellow sapwood that can appear throughout the heartwood as streaks and stripes. Its heartwood can be red to deep reddish-brown to violet-brown. Depending on the cut, the sapwood may appear in contrasting stripes within the heartwood. It has a straight grain with tight knots, which can add to the beauty of the wood. It has a fine texture with closed pores.

Eastern red cedar is a slow-growing species of wood which results in harvested trees being small in diameter and as a result boards are knotty and narrow.

A durable wood, it resists decay and insect attack

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Country of Origin: Central Africa

About Bubinga:

Bubinga is a beautiful, dense hardwood with a lustrous appearance. Its heartwood has a rose-colored background with darker purple or black striping. Bubinga’s sapwood is a pale yellow color that is distinctly separate from the heartwood.

This wood is usually very uniform in graining and color, and the texture is fine and even. Grain is usually interlocked and pores are small. Bubinga comes in a variation of figure, including: pommele, flamed, waterfall, quilted, and mottled. When quarter-sawn, the figure of bubinga shows considerable “flame,” while it exhibits attractive rosewood graining when flat-sawn. When fully aged, bubinga has a rich burgundy red color.

Bubinga ranges from fairly durable to very durable according to the species. It is also resistant to termite and marine borer attack.

While Bubinga looks very much like rosewood, and is often used as a substitute for more expensive woods, it also has unique characteristics such as its beautiful grain figures, for example, flamed, pommele, and waterfall. Bubinga also has a notable strength-to-weight ratio.

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