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If I remember correctly, the ultimate in luxury flooring is milled from oak submerged for hundred of years underwater.

Groxx 5y ago
There's quite a lot of excellent wood sunk in Lake Superior: https://www.timelesstimber.com https://www.timelesstimber.com
throwaway984393 5y ago
I mean, the ultimate in luxury flooring is probably a floor made of gold. But Bog Oak would make rather handsome flooring. Some of it is thousands of years old, not just hundreds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood https://www.wood-database.com/bog-oak/ https://www.wood-database.com/bog-oak/ https://bogoakdesignstudio.com/en/flooring/ https://bogoakdesignstudio.com/en/flooring/
- TylerE 5y ago
  Gold would be miserable flooring. It would dent easily (gold is quite soft), and it's very thermally conductive so it's feel quite cold through your shoes.
  - Cerium 5y ago
    Surely your gold floor would have radiant heating installed and the floor burnishing robot would keep it gleeming.
  - jacobolus 5y ago
    Just use this platinum-gold nanocrystalline alloy with wear “comparable to diamond-like carbon (DLC) and sapphire” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201802026 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201802... Or more plausibly, this titanium–gold alloy 4x as hard as steel, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600319 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600319
- markdown 5y ago
  > I mean, the ultimate in luxury flooring is probably a floor made of gold. That would be quite garish and tasteless, and therefore not luxurious.
  - dylan604 5y ago
    So gold flooring is too much, but gold toilets and water faucets are acceptable. Nice to know where the "too much/too far" line is.
    - markdown 5y ago
      Heads up: you probably responded to the wrong comment. I've never said anything about toilets or faucets.
      - dylan604 5y ago
        No. It was just a bad funny. I've never seen gold flooring, but I have seen gold toilets/faucets. So clearly there's a line, and you just help define it. ;-)
  - IncRnd 5y ago
    Well, I rather enjoy my carpet made from spun gold fibers. Gold is a soft metal, and the fibers are incredibly plush and luxurious underfoot.
teruakohatu 5y ago
Where I live the ultimate luxury is 50,000 year old swamp trees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri They quite literally mine for wood.

There's quite a lot of excellent wood sunk in Lake Superior: https://www.timelesstimber.com https://www.timelesstimber.com

throwaway984393 5y ago

I mean, the ultimate in luxury flooring is probably a floor made of gold. But Bog Oak would make rather handsome flooring. Some of it is thousands of years old, not just hundreds. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bog-wood https://www.wood-database.com/bog-oak/ https://www.wood-database.com/bog-oak/ https://bogoakdesignstudio.com/en/flooring/ https://bogoakdesignstudio.com/en/flooring/

TylerE 5y ago
Gold would be miserable flooring. It would dent easily (gold is quite soft), and it's very thermally conductive so it's feel quite cold through your shoes.
- Cerium 5y ago
  Surely your gold floor would have radiant heating installed and the floor burnishing robot would keep it gleeming.
- jacobolus 5y ago
  Just use this platinum-gold nanocrystalline alloy with wear “comparable to diamond-like carbon (DLC) and sapphire” https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201802026 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adma.201802... Or more plausibly, this titanium–gold alloy 4x as hard as steel, https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600319 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.1600319
markdown 5y ago
> I mean, the ultimate in luxury flooring is probably a floor made of gold. That would be quite garish and tasteless, and therefore not luxurious.
- dylan604 5y ago
  So gold flooring is too much, but gold toilets and water faucets are acceptable. Nice to know where the "too much/too far" line is.
  - markdown 5y ago
    Heads up: you probably responded to the wrong comment. I've never said anything about toilets or faucets.
    - dylan604 5y ago
      No. It was just a bad funny. I've never seen gold flooring, but I have seen gold toilets/faucets. So clearly there's a line, and you just help define it. ;-)
- IncRnd 5y ago
  Well, I rather enjoy my carpet made from spun gold fibers. Gold is a soft metal, and the fibers are incredibly plush and luxurious underfoot.

teruakohatu 5y ago

Where I live the ultimate luxury is 50,000 year old swamp trees: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_kauri They quite literally mine for wood.