Carpet Borders Around Hardwood

Floor borders can be used to define a specific area or convert an otherwise commodity wood floor into an upscale top of the line specialty.

Carpet borders around hardwood.

Thickness can be adjusted from 1 2 to 1 normal thickness 3 4 call for availability. All borders are unfinished and approximately 48 in length. Prices do not include shipping. Into the hardwood area and fold it back out of the way.

Place inlays around the room table or island. Hardwood flooring borders and inlays. Another possibility would be to use the darker color for a border and the lighter same or close as existing maybe run in a different direction in the center. Overrun hardwood inlays with less than 112 lft available will be sold as a lot.

A feature strip is a course of flooring made from a different material that accentuates the border. If you re replacing carpet with hardwood and the same carpet flows into another room cut the carpet ahead of time about 6 in. It is a process by which an artisan fashions a design pattern using finely crafted hardwood veneers to create breathtaking designs and borders that can be inlaid into your existing hardwood floors or included in a brand new installation. After the hardwood is finished cut the padding back 6 in.

A decision was made to remove the carpet install new hardwood in its place and run about 45 lineal feet of a nine inch wide boder around the perimeter of the room. For this floor we are installing a field of 3 1 4 inch red birch framed by a feature strip of the same material then a 6 inch border and three rows of the birch as an apron or skirt around the whole floor. My example on the right was actually an existing hardwood floor that had a carpet insert. Not all border lines are continued.

Use short pieces of flooring and two tiles to lay out a sample stretch of floor. Also if you re concerned about tying the floor colors together you could do a border of the lighter wood around the darker floor or use 2 or all 3 colors in a checkerboard or grid. Your goal is a layout with full width flooring boards for the field and a border and perimeter of equal width around the room. In hardwood floors a border frames the field of the flooring much like a picture frame enclosing the ends of the rows with flooring that runs perpendicular.

Other borders that come prefabricated follow similar procedures in the way they are installed. Hardwood borders are available in the patterns below or a custom pattern of your own design. Hardwood inlay design is a way to turn those beautiful hardwood floors into a work of art. From the transition and fold the carpet underneath until the edge of the fold is tight against a reducer strip.