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Readers Respond: Post a Pic of Your Favorite Floor You Did Over the Winter

WFB asked its followers on Facebook to post a picture of their favorite wood flooring project they did over the winter. Here’s what they showed us.

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Introducing the Winners of the 2025 WFB Design Awards

Each winner of the 2025 WFB Design Awards exhibits dedication and passion for wood flooring craftsmanship. These award-winning projects showcase the achievements of wood flooring pros and their unique visions that transform flooring into works of art.

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A Wood Flooring Guitar Strums the Bonds of Friendship

Stephen Diggins says his wood flooring guitar represents his respect the bonds he has created in wood flooring industry.

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Leveling Up a Game Room With a Wood Floor Pac-Man Maze

When Jeremy Partridge, owner of Brookfield, Mass.-based Jerokee Flooring, set out to create a game room for his kids, he went beyond adding the typical board games and arcade machines—he turned the whole floor into a game.

Jerokee Flooring owner Jeremy Partridge, his wife Jackie and their kids Noah (left) and Nick (right) sit in their Pac-Man-inspired game room.

Creating a Sunburst Medallion Floor in Wisconsin

To create the Usona Institute's 1,296-square-foot sunburst floor centered with a stone medallion, Winneconne, Wis.-based Oshkosh Designs had to clear out its entire warehouse to build the floor.

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Spanish Company Shares its Family Story Across Showroom Floor

In 2020, the showroom of Valladolid, Spain-based Gallery by Suelos de Madera flooded, destroying the floors. Tasked with installing new floors, owner Emilio Manzano took the opportunity to show off his “passion and love” for wood floors.

Emilio Manzano and his family created a pattern of family emblems to spread across their showroom floor.

Florida Home Turns Into a Bat Cave

When Patrick Russell of Ocala, Fla.-based All American Floor Sanding and Installation toured the home of a client whose floors he was installing, there were bats everywhere.

When Patrick Russell saw how much the homeowners of one of his projects loved bats, he knew he had to incorporate them into the wood floors.

Wood Floor of the Week: Inside the Reclaimed River Heart Pine Installation at the University of Virginia

The University of Virginia kicked off an extensive renovation project for a multi-use, four-story building on campus at the beginning of 2023.

Finished reclaimed floors at the University of Virginia.

Floral-Inspired Pattern Creates a Wooden Floor Bouquet

Giovanni Barbieri enters the wood flooring world with a fresh design. “Blooming” is a non-repetitive design that blossoms throughout a room.

'Blooming' wood floor design is achieved by installing four unique shapes in a random pattern to generate a non-repetitive design.

Creating a Tile Look—With Hardwood Flooring

J. Rapaport Wood Flooring in New Jersey tackles a new challenge of creating a tri-colored, tile-like design of wood floors.

J. Rapaport Wood Flooring in New Jersey creates a tri-colored, tile-colored wood floor design.

Extraordinary Floors

A Stump, an Impossible Triangle and More: Tom Ourada Creates His Own Floor

This interwoven floor was created mainly from wood Tom Ourada had collected because he thought it was intriguing.

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Readers Respond: Pics of Readers' Favorite Spring Wood Flooring Projects

Wood Floor Business asked followers on Facebook what their favorite wood flooring projects from this spring were, and there were many responses, with many beautiful wood floors.

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