Restoration

Restoring Olivewood Floors With a Modern Flair

Corrao Pietro of Rome, Italy-based Corrao Pietro Parquet restored olivewood floors in one of the "most challenging projects" he's ever done.

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What Should You Know About Wood Floor Vents?

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Grill Works shares answers to the top 5 questions they receive–including the most popular types of vents, differences among mounts, how to maximize airflow and more.

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Philadelphia Restores Street to Historic Wood-Block Pavement

A block of Philadelphia’s Camac Street has returned to its roots and been restored to its original 1800s wood-block pavement.

Italian Wood Flooring Pros Recreate Famous French Painting

Lifelong Italian wood flooring pro Giovanni Sonzogni of Milan had the idea to recreate the scene from “Les Raboteurs de Parquet" while at the annual Workcamp Parquet gathering.

Being a Wood Floor Pro: Copenhagen vs. London

Wood floor pro Paul Sloboda shares the differences he's found in moving from being a wood floor pro in Denmark to working in London.

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How We Did This Floor: A Huge Chevron Floor in a Historic Government Building

Universal Floors has done hundreds of historical renovations in Washington, D.C., but the Mellon Auditorium was one of the most challenging jobs they've done.

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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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Wood Floor Rescue

Wood Floor Rescue: Bringing Centuries-Old Beautiful Fir Back to Life

“It’s so Downton Abbey,” says Danny Stenhouse, owner of York, U.K.-based Sandhouse Floor Sanding & York Parquet Ltd., of this job site, Brockfield Hall, where he brought the wood flooring back to life.

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Wood Floor of the Week: 130-Year-Old Floor Saved By 150-Year-Old Beams

See how Design Wood Floors restored this historic parquet floor in Boston's Ames Mansion.

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Wood Floor Rescue: Uncovering Gems In Rural North Dakota

In rural North Dakota, wood floor pro Ed Lausche of Northern Hardwood Floors in Nome, N.D., uncovers “some pretty good gems” when he’s hired to sand existing wood floors.

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Matching New to Old in a Historic Family Farmhouse

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Wood Floor Rescue: Big Reveal in a Hoboken Basement

Brendan Gillespie of Gillespie Hardwood Floors got to transform a secret bowling alley that had been covered many decades ago.

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Sports Flooring

Basketball Court Floor Gets a Second Shot with the Pros

“No need to send a perfectly good wood floor to the landfill."

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