Home's Floors Become Giant Wooden Jigsaw Puzzle

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The project included 915 square feet of the unusual wood flooring.
The project included 915 square feet of the unusual wood flooring.
Courtesy of Alex Hamilton

Walking along the floors of this Cincinnati, Ohio, home is like stepping onto a room-size wooden jigsaw puzzle. The homeowners worked with local interior design company Spaces to find a floor that would “exaggerate the space.” What was chosen was Paris-based manufacturer Oscar Ono’s Opus collection, which is inspired by ancient mosaics and wooden block roads in 19th-century Paris. Given the floor’s intricate design, Spaces had to find an installer who could take on the challenge, and the job was given to Florence, Ky.-based Grain Design Flooring.

The Opus collection is a prefinished engineered white oak comprised of dozens of small blocks that have been milled into two abstract-shaped tiles. When Grain Design Flooring Field Operations Supervisor Alex Hamilton received the flooring with no directions on how to install it, he worried its jagged edges would make for a complicated installation process. “The first two days were like, ‘This is going to take forever.’ But once we got into the swing of things, it wasn’t that bad,” Hamilton says. The two tiles had to be installed in an alternating pattern, so to simplify the process, Hamilton’s team preassembled panels of the interlocking tiles by biscuit-jointing and taping up to 20 pieces together. They were then glued onto plywood throughout the home’s living room and foyer. The installation measured 915 square feet, and the project used about 700 tiles of the Opus collection.

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