Black Hardwood – Shaw’s Cosmopolitan Maple – A stylish look for your home in Westchester NY
Have you ever seen black hardwood? Yes, black – not dark or ebony – I mean black – it’s painted black. It is so cool looking – ver
y modern (and retro at the same time). Well Shaw has come out with a new hardwood called Cosmopolitan.
Shaw’s Cosmopolitan maplle hardwood is a high quality engineered maple hardwood. The planks are wide – 5” each. It comes in both black and white – and it’s a special type of finish (which I think is a trade secret) which looks painted – so it’s pure black or pure white. Of course it has 7 coats of polyurethane on top for extra scratch protection (and a 25 yr warranty).This hardwood has a distressed look which is exactly what my customers are looking for. (And, BTW, this floor can be refinished at least twice so it’s going to last a long time).
This is a designers dream. It is so unique to have a floor like this. Not only is it stunning, and allows you to truly do a black and white them e in the room, but you also have options where you can mix and match to make patterns. For example, you could do a bla
ck floor on a diagonal, surrounded by a white border, surrounded by a foot or so of black for an outer border. Or, you could integrate black and white for a striping effect – either every other board (as you see in some restaurants now) or paired up in twos or any pattern you want – the possibilities are endless.
I’m so lucky because my customers from Saturday are going to be doing this in 2 rooms of their townhouse (later, they are going to add to master bedroom) and they will add black/white checkerboard vinyl to the Pink room. I can’t wait to see the finished product and show you pictures. Not only will the floor be stunning, but the paint colors they have on the walls which are bright and retro are going to look so neat. 2 rooms have white walls – so Black + white theme; one room has red – so red + black and Pink room will be Pink + black/white. It is so retro.
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