An open loft with few interior walls puts a whole floor on view at once, so variation between boards reads as part of the room rather than something hidden in a hallway. Reunion sits at a rich, warm brown with lighter sapwood streaks breaking through here and there. Character is rated Extremely High here, a step past the High rating Shaw uses elsewhere in this Sanctuary Hickory engineered hardwood, so real knots and heavy sapwood streaks turn up often. Hickory can shift from a nearly white patch to almost black wood along the same board, and the wire-brushed texture deepens the shadow along each ridge so the loft reads as one uneven field of grain.
That same open loft suits flat-panel teak cabinetry, a parchment wall, and bronze hardware, with a limestone counter keeping the material palette grounded against all that dramatic, high-character grain running across the space. Each plank carries a micro-bevel edge that leaves a slim recessed line at the seam, so in a wide-open space with nothing to break up the sightline, the seams themselves do that job instead, marking out individual boards across the whole run. It is a subtle way to keep a big, open room this size from reading as one flat, undifferentiated surface end to end.
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Shaw Sanctuary Hickory SW715-01087 Reunion 6.38" x Random Lengths up to 58.56" Hardwood (25.4 SF/Box)