Few home improvements can transform a room with warmth, beauty, and style as effectively as installing new hardwood floors. Indeed, exotic Cabreuva hardwood flooring has a rich and attractive appearance that adds value and unique style to your home. Cabreuva wood, also known as Santos Mahogany, is a naturally color-rich and contrasting wood species, which is among the exotic species native to South America up to North America, including Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Cabreuva flooring is considered one of the most sought-after exotic species by homeowners. It is known to be quite hard, durable, and very stable. Its resistance to moisture and temperature fluctuations makes it an excellent flooring choice for any room in your home.
Characteristics of Cabreuva (Santos Mahogany) flooring
Cabreuva wood is distinguished by its rich reddish-brown color and very fine, uniform grain texture. Like other tropical wood species, Cabreuva hardwood flooring offers beautiful deep red and brown tones with some orange hues, which intensify and darken over time. With its beautiful natural deep red tones, Santos Mahogany (Cabreuva) flooring has a color that is close to reddish-brown. It is also very durable and extremely dense with very small pores, even smaller than those of walnut hardwood. Cabreuva hardwood flooring is considered a solid anti-fungal wood with an average density of 58 lb/ft3. It is about 70% harder than red oak flooring and about 60% harder than white oak flooring. Exotic Cabreuva flooring is also known for its pleasant unique spicy fragrance. In reality, it is a better alternative to mahogany flooring for surfaces exposed to heavy traffic. Cabreuva flooring is an extremely popular wood in the world of flooring, often sought after for its density, rot-resistant qualities, and other remarkable characteristics. The Santos Mahogany tree is well known for its yield of balsam used in perfumes, harvested mainly in El Salvador. Cabreuva hardwood flooring offers a very fine to medium variation in color and grain, resulting in a naturally more uniform floor. It is typically installed in basements, ground floors, and upper floors, as well as in condos. L’Artisan du Plancher Montréal, your flooring installation expert, has the experience and know-how necessary to install hardwood floors, engineered wood floors, and floating wood floors. Please contact us if you have any questions regarding your flooring project.
