A hint of mystery.
A hint of mystery.
American black walnut is considered by many to be the domestic exotic. Warm chocolate tones are entwined with light sapwood to create a mysterious and welcoming floor. A true walnut—and not just a walnut-colored stain over a different wood species—has a characteristic that you should be aware of as you are looking around.
At Allwood, we embrace the beauty and variation created by nature. Every plank is unique, which is one of the things we love about what we do. However, while every sample is created directly from production, and and every photo is color corrected as closely as we can, it is not possible to display all variations in color and character you may find in your floor. That’s why it important to approve the actual flooring before final installation, not just a small sample.
**SPECIAL NOTE** Walnut is a very photosensitive, or “light-sensitive” wood. When exposed to sunlight, walnut is prone to change its color and become lighter than wood that is kept in the shade. Areas where this is most noticeable are those with direct sunlight or where sharp light/shadows are present. This is a natural occurrence in all real wood and not a defect in the flooring. It is very important to know this when considering walnut, however, as it is slightly more prone to color change than other wood types.
Special Note:
You may be familiar with grading terms like “character” and “select”. These refer to the amount (or lack) of knots in a plank, the straightness of the grain, and even the amount of sapwood. For instance, a Very-Charactered grade of floor will have a lot of knots or variation in its grain. While a Select floor will have almost none. But what most people do not know is that there are separate grading systems between the different wood species. And that the grading for Walnut is quite different from that of Oak. A Select-grade walnut floor can look much different from a Select-grade oak. This can get kind of confusing if you don’t know the different scales.
So even though our Walnut is technically a Select-grade by walnut standards, to keep things simple, we have chosen to use an oak grading scale and are calling it Character.
*All dimensions are rounded to nearest standard US measurement.
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The environment is one of the core factors in all our decisions; all the way down to how we sample our products and the types of packaging we use. We do not—and never will—sell vinyl or plastic floors, and we minimize waste in all our business practices.
As a part of ongoing efforts to demonstrate our commitment to those values, we have conducted a full Life Cycle Analysis (LCA) and Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) for our entire catalog of hardwood and bamboo flooring products. They are extensive studies, which include results for all materials and processes that go into making an Allwood floor ready to install into the home. The underlying LCA and the EPD were developed in compliance with ISO 14025:2006 and ISO 21930:2017 and have been verified under the UL Environment EPD program.
Together they reflect our desire to know every aspect of the products we make and to have complete transparency of their impact on the environment.
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