A Look Back at 2 Decades of NWFA Conventions

Jan 31, 2005

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Unfortunately, I don't have any photos of my dad doing wood flooring. Here he is pictured on his 90th birthday.

How I Found Out About My Father’s Wood Flooring Reputation

December 31, 2024

A Complicated Challenge: Refinishing the Tavern on the Green

A Complicated Challenge: Refinishing the Tavern on the Green

How Manual Labor Saved

How Manual Labor Saved an Art Movement (or ‘The Revenge of the Skinny, Vulgar Floor Scrapers’)

Top 5 Classic Memes 2024

Check Out The Top 5 Classic WFB Memes of 2024

Beautiful, Durable and Bug-Resistant: Historic Dade County Pine Flooring

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Basketball fans are calling the 2025 Big 12 tournament court “obnoxious,” “impressively bad” and “an assault to the eyes,” to name a few adjectives, as the new design features repeating "XII" logos that some fans say could “trigger seizures.”

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A Complicated Challenge: Refinishing the Tavern on the Green

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Avedis Duvenjian of LED Coating Solutions by Archetypal takes us through the refinishing of the historic Tavern on the Green Restaurant in New York City.

A Complicated Challenge: Refinishing the Tavern on the Green

How Manual Labor Saved an Art Movement (or ‘The Revenge of the Skinny, Vulgar Floor Scrapers’)

“The Floor Scrapers” by Gustave Caillebotte was singled out and deemed “vulgar and crude,” as it violated the unwritten law of popular art by showing the urban working class just going about their business—but it also ended up saving Impressionism.

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Check Out The Top 5 Classic WFB Memes of 2024

As we look back on 2024, WFB rounded up the five most-viewed classic WFB memes from our Facebook and Instagram accounts. Here’s how they stacked up:

Top 5 Classic Memes 2024

Beautiful, Durable and Bug-Resistant: Historic Dade County Pine Flooring

Dade County pine was harvested to near extinction due to its beauty, durability and resistance to decay and bugs; today it is a coveted material in restoration projects.

Dad’s Urethane Bucket ‘Pretty Much a Work of Art’

Some families pass down jewelry or antique furniture—but one of wood floor pro Nicole Guerra’s prized heirlooms is an old urethane bucket.

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Readers Respond: What Was the Big Machine You Learned On?

Wood flooring pros tell us which big machine they learned on—and some even share some fantastic photos.

Wood floor pro Paul Massey started on the big machine at a young age.

A Formidable Challenge: Introducing Waterborne Coatings

The early 1980’s were an interesting time in the wood floor finish business. Oil-modified urethane (OMU) was king. While there were a few other types of finishes being used, almost every contractor used OMU. However, that was going to change very quickly.

Stephen Gunneson of Branford, Conn.-based Gunneson Flooring Company shared these two artifacts from the early days of water-based coatings: a vintage gallon of Basic Coatings Street Shoe water-based finish found at a customer’s home, and a casette tape of a seminar on “Water Based Floors” from 1995.

Chi-Namel Graining Process Created ‘Hardwood Effects’

“Use Chi-Namel Graining Process to transform old, dirty looking softwood floors, doors, woodwork and furniture into beautiful hardwood effects,” says a Chi-Namel ad from the Saturday Evening Post dated April 14, 1923.

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Veneer Floors: A Common Phenomenon in Historic Wide Plank

Wood floor restoration expert Michael Purser of Rosebud Company discusses the high-end veneer flooring that was commonplace in expensive homes in the early 20th century.

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In Memoriam: Lifelong Industry Veteran Warner Tweed Dies at 90

Lifelong wood floor industry veteran Warner Tweed, who had an expansive career starting as a NOFMA mill inspector in 1960, died on Feb. 6 at the age of 90.

'Warner had two passions besides his family: The wood flooring industry and the outdoors,' says longtime friend and fellow wood floor pro John Mayers. 'That man loved to hunt and fish.'

Keeping History Afloat—By Sanding a Fishing Boat

The 3½-inch-thick fir deck of this 1929 commercial fishing boat has no doubt seen its fair share of swabbing, but a good bit of nautical time had passed since its last sanding.

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Date Yourself By Naming Something You Used to Do When You Started in the Industry

We asked wood floor pros what they used to do on wood flooring jobs that would date them today. Here are our favorite responses shared by our readers on the WFB Facebook and Instagram pages.

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