Glide, OR, June 6, 2006--A new flooring business has opened in Glide, with a unique twist. Sheldon’s Carolina Custom Flooring offers hardwood flooring, which is all made on site.
It’s also wood from the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in North Carolina, where owners Lee and Lisa Sheldon previously lived.
Lee Sheldon retired from the Air Force and had a custom cabinet shop in Seattle. He moved east with his wife and accumulated a vast collection of timber after being asked to clean up trees from yards following Hurricane Katrina.
The business, at 19190 N. Umpqua Highway, offers floors using 12 different kinds of wood, from ambrosia maple to shag bark hickory to black walnut.
Making flooring out of the wood started as a hobby for Sheldon. On a drive around Roseburg, he said, he fell in love with Glide and decided to move there.
He then decided to turn his hobby into a business.
Sheldon’s Carolina Custom Flooring is family-run, with the couple’s grandson Jay Sheldon also involved.
