Exotic Hardwood Flooring:  Species and Properties

                Looking to buy hardwood flooring, but want to purchase something different than most traditional floors you have seen?  This is where exotic wood floors come into play.  Exotic woods floors are a cut above the rest when it comes to hardwood flooring, and have a very distinctive look compared to other hardwood flooring on the market.  There are several different species of exotic flooring including; Brazilian cherry, tiger wood, santos mahogany, brazilian teak, Brazilian walnut, tite chestnut, and many others.

                Exotic hardwood flooring comes unfinished or finished.   You can usually get a more expensive exotic flooring cheaper if you finish it yourself once it’s laid, but if possible finished hardwoods are less time consuming to install, and are ready to use once they are laid, whereas, unfinished will need to be stained and finished after being installed.  Depending on your taste and price range, engineered and solid are both offered in exotics.  Engineered is made up of thin slices of wood glued together with a veneer finish on top, usually you can buy engineered flooring at a discount rate compared to the same solid flooring, but with solid flooring you can refinish it for many, many years.

Br111 Tigerwood Flooring
Br111 Santos Mahogany
Br111 Amendoim Flooring
Br111 locking flooring
Br111 Flooring 

                Exotic flooring also adds more variety of colors to the market.  Along with an additional array of colors exotic flooring has a very unique look and will add value to your home.  Most exotic hardwood flooring species come from Australia, South America, Africa and many other countries. These types of flooring can be a little more expensive than normal hardwood, but will pay off with their looks, character, and value added to your home.

Triangulo Amendoim
Triangulo Hardwood Flooring
Triangulo Wood Floors

                Along with having a more unique, colorful look exotic hardwood flooring is also more dent resistant than regular hardwood flooring species. The Hardness of hardwood is tested on the Janka Hardness scale, where exotic hardwoods score amount the highest for hardness, which is important with high areas of traffic, children, and indoor animals.  Exotic hardwood flooring is installed the same way as any other hardwood flooring, and can be refinished just like any other engineered or solid flooring.

Anderson Exotic Impressions Teak Effect
LM Flooring Brazilian Cherry

                Exotic hardwoods are on the market to give consumers the option to have something different and unique to their home.  Along with adding these characteristics, exotic flooring is also more durable and dent resistant, and comes in virtually any size, width, and style you may desire.  By making an investment in exotic flooring you cannot go wrong, it is an investment worth making!

If you’re looking for exotic hardwood flooring then do your research and get the product you want.  For more information on hardwood flooring or hand scraped flooring please visit the references listed.