When you hear someone mention “New Orleans architecture” you might immediately think of a side hall shotgun, wrought-iron railing, or decorative brackets.  But most people will not immediately think of one detail that many classic New Orleans residences share – the Heart Pine Flooring.

Heart Pine was commonly used for flooring in New Orleans throughout the 1800’s and into the 1900’s.  It is made from the center or ‘heart’ of a pine tree where the wood is the densest and hardest.  It is perfect for flooring because of its hardness and it is well suited to be used in the humid Louisiana climate.

Heart Pine is, unfortunately, a limited resource.  Today’s foresting does not allow the trees to grow old enough to develop hard heart pine centers.  This is where Central City Millworks comes in.

Here at Central City Millworks we specialize in selling and installing reclaimed Heart Pine flooring.  We have a large inventory of reclaimed Heart Pine in;

Distressed Antique –

Classic -                          

Number One -             

Premier Vertical -     

The benefits of using Heart Pine flooring are numerous.

• Allows customers to match old flooring, be it an entire room or a small patch.
• Allows customers to have the highest quality flooring at an affordable price, with a material that is not available today.
• This practice is extremely environmentally friendly.  Not only are we recycling old materials for reuse, fewer forests will have to be cut down as a result.

If you need flooring or any other millwork visit us at www.centralcitymillworks.com