Floor Products We Love
Here are beautiful, timeless flooring options for your old house.
The editors of Arts & Crafts Homes show you beautiful, timeless flooring types for your bungalow or new house in the Arts & Crafts spirit.
Historic Woof Flooring
FROM LONGLEAF LUMBER INC.
This characterful reclaimed floor was produced by Longleaf, an antique lumber company located in Cambridge, Mass., and Berwick, Maine. They specialize in re-sawing mill timbers and barn beams from all over New England. (866) OLD-FLOOR, longleaflumber.com
Mosaic Tile Floor
FROM MOTAWI TILEWORKS
A rich mosaic of square and rectangular field tiles with a mosaic border, all in Arts & Crafts glazes, create an intricate pattern. (734) 213-0017, motawi.com
Green Floor Finish
FROM SUTHERLAND WELLES
Refresh floors with Millie’s All Purpose Penetrating Tung Oil. Made from 99% sustainably grown materials, the oil is available in gallon and four-gallon cans. (800) 322-1245, sutherlandwelles.com
MARMOLEUM TILES
FROM FORBO FLOORING
Naturally colorful! In the Teens and Twenties, linoleum came in jazzy colors and patterns. Marmoleum linoleum tiles re-create those period looks. In tiles or sheets, their flooring is climate-positive. (866) MARMOLEUM, www.forbo.com/flooring/en-us/
Concrete Floor
FROM SONOMA STONE
Earthcrete is a sustainable concrete made of many recycled elements. Lighter and with far less Portland cement than standard concrete, it can be formed into almost any shape—included scored porch or patio tiles. (877) 939-9929, sonomastone.com
Retro Flooring
FROM ARMSTRONG
With names like Lang Street and Boogie Woogie, MODe flooring offers mix-and-match 16-in. tiles that create patterns reminiscent of post-war linoleum and vinyl. Visit armstrong.com or a local dealer.
Patricia Poore is Editor-in-chief of Old House Journal and Arts & Crafts Homes, as well as editorial director at Active Interest Media’s Home Group, overseeing New Old House, Traditional Building, and special-interest publications.
Poore joined Old House Journal when it was a Brooklyn-brownstoner newsletter in the late 1970s. She became owner and publisher and, except for the years 2002–2013, has been its editor. Poore founded the magazines Old-House Interiors (1995–2013) and Early Homes (2004–2017); their content is now available online and folded into Old-House Journal’s wider coverage. Poore also created GARBAGE magazine (1989–1994), the first unaffiliated environmental consumer magazine.
Poore has participated, hands-on, in several restorations, including her own homes: a 1911 brownstone in Park Slope, Brooklyn, and a 1904 Tudor–Shingle Style house in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she brought up her boys and their wonderful dogs.
