Yes. In fact, we pride ourselves on using only native wood from Oregon’s Willamette Valley for all our flooring.

Our hardwood flooring comes from locally grown Oregon white oak, Western bigleaf maple and Oregon ash.

We offer two grades of engineered flooring:

Character: uses the full scope of the tree and all its inherent dimensions, like knots.

Select: omits major distinctions and limits sapwood.

Each type of hardwood has its own characteristics of color, grain and density. Oregon white oak is the densest of the three species and has bright white sapwood contrasting with darker heartwood. Bigleaf maple has a wide spectrum of interesting colors and figured grain while Oregon ash has light- to medium-brown and honey colors often with lots of marbling. Words don’t do this wood justice. Ask us to see samples or look at our Flooring page to see pictures.

Yes, we love being part of these projects! Forest Stewardship Council® certified products are available by request;we also have a Declare Label we can provide. All our wood is locally grown and manufactured, so it's a perfect fit for all sustainability certifications.

Our flooring is sold unfinished, allowing you to pick the finish that works best for your use patterns and color palette. It needs to be sanded and finished on site. This makes a better quality, longer lasting floor that is much more water resistant and doesn’t have any distracting grooves between boards.

There are many finishes on the market. Talk to your installer or designer to help narrow down the options. Be sure to look for non-toxic, UV protected, low VOC products. Our two cents: we tend to like simple, waterborne finishes like Pallman’s Pall-X 96.

Our flooring comes random length. Our boards come between 2’ to 8’ long, with the majority of them being over 6’.

If you're hoping for something that we don’t stock, let's talk. Keep in mind that custom runs require longer lead times and full payment upfront.

No, we don’t. The natural character inherent in our local species is plenty interesting on its own. We prefer to sell unblemished flooring and let your lifestyle give it a one-of-a-kind patina over generations.All of our floors will include a combination of quarter, rift and flat sawn cuts.

Certainly. Arrange a mill visit, or contact us to have samples mailed to you.

We don’t install, but we have a network of trusty installers who we can recommend. Contact us for a recommendation in your area.

Mixed width floors, also called variable width, best represent the variety inherent in trees. Any given log will produce boards of varying sizes, so variable width floors do a better job of using all the wood a tree has to offer without waste. As for install, many folks choose to lay the widths randomly. You can also lay the boards in a pattern, and we make it easy by including a laying pattern that makes sure you don’t run out of one width before another. Still seems confusing? Call us—it’s not as tricky as it sounds.

Our engineered flooring has a4mm wear layer of sandable material. Depending on the use and care of your floor over time, this gives you 4-5 sandings before you run out of wood. With regular wear and tear, you should figure on a refinish every 30 years, which will give you a floor that will last many generations.

It’s easy. For small spills, just a little soap and water with a rag or sponge will do the trick. Be sure to wipe the floors dry with a towel after cleaning. For routine cleaning, sweep with a broom or use a dust mop. Don’t clean your hardwood floor with a wet mop or a steam cleaner. These will damage the floor over time.

We gravitate away from making a solid product for a number of beneficial reasons and even wrote a blog on the topic: Solid vs Engineered Flooring. The main bullet points to this continued decision are higher performance, less movement, less susceptibility to moisture retention, the ability to the apply over radiant heating without obstruction, and perhaps most importantly, we are using 2/3 less of a precious slow growing resource on a substrate you will never use or see—making this a far more sustainable product than the alternative.

Our engineered flooring is made from real wood and has a thick wood wear layer that can be sanded and refinished for generations. While laminate flooring is simply a very thin layer of plastic with a picture of wood printed on it and glued to low-grade substrate.

We partner with Trillium Pacific Millwork in Hubbard, OR. to make our engineered flooring. They use a massive glue press to adhere the two parts of the floor together with a CARB II compliant no added urea formaldehyde Type II glue that is made in Woodburn, OR. In other words, it's the best and most non-toxic glue available. Please feel free to ask for our “red list friendly” Declare Label.