Cool and pale, Glacier sits near the light end of the range, closer to bleached driftwood than to anything gold or amber. Red oak underneath it brings a more open pore structure than white oak, along with a faint warm pink undertone that keeps Glacier from reading flat or gray despite how light it runs. Shaw wire-brushes the surface of this Landmark Sliced Oak engineered hardwood, worrying the grain open along each plank so that even a pale, low-contrast color like this one picks up visible texture under angled light. Character rates High here as well, so sapwood streaking and flecks of mineral color turn up often enough to keep a light color like this from ever looking uniform.
Glacier's pale, cool cast suits a farmhouse kitchen built around painted olive cabinets and an unbleached linen wall, where a white oak butcher block counter and unlacquered brass hardware keep things from feeling too crisp or too modern. Shaw approves this Landmark Sliced Oak for nailing, stapling, gluing down, or floating, which matters in an older farmhouse where the subfloor might be plywood in one room and a patched slab in another; the floating option alone makes it workable over an uneven kitchen subfloor without ripping anything out first. Few floors this wide give a renovation that much flexibility.
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Shaw Landmark Sliced Oak SW747-01118 Glacier 9.25" x Random Lengths up to 82.5" Hardwood (31.16 SF/Box)