Renewing Historical Wood Floors to Their Original Beauty

Historical wood floor restoration

Hardwood floors can last a lifetime. If you treat them right, they can even last many lifetimes. When hardwood floors have been around for so long that they have historical significance, you need to take special care to restore them correctly. Restoring historic hardwood floors requires a skilled hardwood flooring craftsman. Someone who will know how to restore a historic wood floor to its original beauty, without taking away the historic significance.

The difficulty in restoring historic hardwood floors

When you take on a historical restoration, you need to understand how to use modern tools and technology, while still preserving the history behind the wood floors. To stay true to the original floors, you may need to work with a wood flooring retailer that can find the same rare species of wood that was originally used. For the best result, you want to try to find the same type of wood and finish. However, there are some species of wood that you cannot find today because they are protected. If the original wood species isn’t available, you have to find the best solution to restore the floors.

Matching the style of the floor

Historic hardwood floor restoration

The installation and the style of hardwood floors change with the times. When you are restoring historic wood floors, it’s important that your flooring craftsmen understand the style of the floor that you are trying to restore, so that they can stay true to history. Refinishing historic floors and staying true to their original style will help protect the integrity, as well as the value, of your historic home or building.

Finest hardwood flooring craftsmen in Colorado

We strive to be the finest wood flooring craftsmen in Colorado. We want you to love your entire floor project experience. We show up on time, respect your home, and clean up each day. We have a heart for service. We continually work to build systems and methods to deliver value to you at each step in the hardwood process.

You can find our work in the area’s finest iconic floors, from Colorado’s leading museums to many terrific historical restoration projects.

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Chris Keale

Owner & Operator of Tongue & Groove Flooring
Wood Flooring 101 Course Creator

Chris Keale is the owner of Tongue & Groove and the creator of the Wood Floors 101 course, an educational resource that helps homeowners and design professionals make confident flooring decisions.

With a career that began in global technology and consulting, Chris traded boardrooms for floorboards, bringing his leadership skills and love of craftsmanship into the hardwood flooring industry. Since 2007, he has grown Tongue & Groove into one of Colorado’s most trusted flooring companies—built on a foundation of integrity, education and precision. 

Known for his sharp insight, dry humor and genuine commitment to his clients, Chris has helped homeowners, builders and designers through the complexities of choosing and installing hardwood floors. Whether teaching in the showroom, on a jobsite or through his Wood Floors 101, his mission remains the same: to simplify a complicated industry and deliver floors that stand the test of time.

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