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Handscraped Flooring

handscraped


Also called hand-sculpted.  Hardwood planks are individually hand-scraped to create distinctive, one-of-a-kind floors.


Handscraping described the smoothing process employed on hardwood floors before the invention of sandpaper or motors. A burnished piece of metal was drawn towards the scraper resulting in a very smooth finish.


Before sanding machines arrived in the 19202s, floors where scraped to remove the old varnish before a light sand by hand and then refinishing. Real wood floors prepared this way had a slightly undulating finish.

flooring


building material used in laying floors


The boards or other material of which a floor is made


floor: the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); "they needed rugs to cover the bare floors"; "we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent"


(floored) provided with a floor