Reclaimed and salvaged wood floors are increasingly popular as homeowners look to reduce, reuse and recycle. One tile manufacturer has taken salvaged wood to the next level: using trees that fell millions of years ago. Ann Sacks, a division of Kohler Interiors, sells a variety of tiles made from petrified wood, sourced from fossilized forests in the United States, Brazil, China, India, Egypt and South Africa. The tiles, with distinct grain patterns, are no longer wood at all-minerals replaced the organic material, leaving quartz, colored by iron, carbon and manganese, in the pattern of the grain-that-was. The unique nature of these tiles is important to remember when you see the price tag: $222.30 per square foot. For more, see www.annsacks.com.
