Shoppers weighing this hickory against a quieter oak floor should know Quietude, from Shaw's Sanctuary Hickory line, is still built on hickory's dramatic light-to-dark swings and pronounced grain, just filtered through a soft, muted grey-beige that calms the contrast without erasing it. Extremely High character grading, Shaw's top tier, pushes knots, mineral streaking and sapwood to read as strongly as the species allows. That combination is unusual, since most floors this quiet in color carry a lower character grade to match. Shaw wire-brushes the surface of this engineered hardwood and finishes it at a low 7% sheen, keeping the finish matte enough that the grading's drama doesn't tip into glare. Quiet color, loud grain.
Quietude's soft grey-beige works as the connective tissue in an open-plan kitchen and dining space, running underneath ochre lacquer cabinets, limewash plaster walls, a pewter counter and champagne bronze hardware without picking a side between the two areas. Boards run from 10 inches up to 58.56, a range wide enough to stagger joints across a floor plan this large without repeating a pattern too soon. An open-plan space like this needs that kind of length variety more than a smaller room would, since sightlines run much farther in every direction. Without it, a repeating joint pattern would be far easier to spot from across the room. Length variety solves that here.
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Shaw Sanctuary Hickory SW715-07094 Quietude 6.38" x Random Lengths up to 58.56" Hardwood (25.4 SF/Box)