Big Leaf Maple

Big leaf maple is the Northwest's native maple and one of the dominant species in the Willamette Valley: light, creamy, sunny tones and a smooth, even grain that brightens whatever room it's in. It's on the softer side for a hardwood (around 850 on the Janka scale), but machines, sands, and finishes beautifully. Its most striking boards carry quilt or curl figure, the shimmering, three-dimensional grain prized for fine furniture and instruments, along with the deep reds and spalting that develop as older trees age. Like all Zena flooring, big leaf maple is made as EdgeGrain: solid wood tiles built from ¾" strips rather than wide planks, assembled without glue and using more of every tree. Zena grows and mills it on their own Willamette Valley forestland, roughly 60 miles from forest to finished floor.