I ordered 400 square feet of tongue-and-groove yellow pine in 8-inch-wide, 1-inch-thick planks. Today, wood flooring is normally 3⁄4-inch thick or less—because it’s usually laid over a ...

Everyone seems to want them but what makes hardwood floors so special? Hardwood floors come in a wide variety from the type of wood used to the way the wood is cut and to how the wood gets assembled.

Hardwood flooring ... very wide planks. "I think this is a really neat way to evoke historic design motifs, especially if you're renovating an older home," Bilotta said. In addition, light-colored ...

At LV Wood, “seven inches has become our standard wide-plank floor,” says Caroll, and sizes go up from there. However, he adds, wider planks don’t just look more expensive—they are more ...

This meant replacing some of the wide-plank ... floor of the open-space living room, dining room, kitchen and hallway, is there a way to make the new boards look better? A: Patching a wood floor ...