Autumn is here, and as we barrel toward gap season, we asked wood floor pros to take a moment to share their favorite projects completed this past summer. It was by no means an ordinary summer, but as reader submissions demonstrated, creative wood flooring work around the world persisted.
(For a roundup of some of the cool gym floors created last summer, look here.)
Sheaves Floors LLC | Staunton, Va.
Aaron Sheaves shared this rift-and-quartered white oak project completed in a Staunton house built in 1901.
Patrick Daigle Hardwood Flooring Inc. | Manchester, Conn.
Alex Daigle’s 2¼-inch select red oak with Brazilian cherry borders was completed in Glastonbury, Conn.
Spartan Hardwood Floors and Interiors | Calgary, Alberta
Wood floor pros Lars Frohnsdorf and Athanasios Tsaprailis teamed up for this rhombus pattern red oak floor. They cut, installed and sanded the project in Calgary.
Woodshed Flooring Inc.
Casey Ditsworth used red oak and walnut to complete this fireplace project with a bent-wood fireplace surround in Freeport, Ill.
Quality Custom Wood Floors | Cincinnati
Chad Reagan’s 10 1/4-inch livesawn white oak project was completed in Cincinnati.
Bransom Floor Service Inc. | Fort Worth, Texas
Charlie Bransom completed this hickory project with a view in Fort Worth.
Chris Schmidt
There were several herringbone projects this summer, including this one submitted by Schmidt.
Christopher Black
Black shared this unique herringbone wood flooring project, installed between marble slabs.
Christopher Morrison
Morrison installed this red oak, mahogany and jatoba flooring at his uncle’s house in Kenner, La.
Ike Hatchett Floor Finishing | Peoria, Ill.
Dan Aeschliman shared this 1,100-square-foot, 4-inch-wide hickory project featuring “heavy mill marks for a rustic look.” The flooring included a three-to-one dark walnut and gray stain.
Wood Flooring Kavetsos | Athens, Greece
George Kavetsos’s Slovenian oak parquet flooring project was located near the Acropolis in Athens.
Dawson Hardwood Floors | Saucier, Miss.
Joe Dawson got to work with antique heart pine and all its glory this summer.
John Joshua
Joshua’s character-grade hickory project was wire-brushed and stained medium brown before being completed with a matte finish in Green Bay, Wis.
John W. Abrams
Abrams tackled 3,000 feet of red pine flooring.
Jose Hernandez
Hernandez shared a creative white oak and wenge parquet flooring project he worked on in Old Brookville, N.Y.
Josh Hansman | Cincinnati
Hansman, who works for Cincinnati Floor & Window Coverings, installed this hickory flooring in his own kitchen.
Triple J Flooring | Los Angeles
Juan Ruiz worked on this red oak project in Hacienda Heights, Calif.
Lalo’s Hardwood Floors | Omaha, Neb.
This company got to work in “stable” conditions for this house-barn wood flooring project.
Pro Parkett Marcel Rößle | Cologne, Germany
Marcel Rößle submitted this 11-inch-width Douglas fir project in Cologne, featuring board lengths ranging from 9–24 feet.
Craftsman Hardwood Flooring | San Angelo, Texas
Matt Garcia shared this eye-catching entryway floor.
Mitchell Canter
Canter turned this porcelain throne room into a miniature palace with this white oak chevron pattern flooring, completed in Pittsburg, Kan.
Allwood Flooring | Winterset, Iowa
Skip Jones completed this 7-inch maple flooring project in Winterset with an oil color finish.
Young Brothers Hardwood Floors | Broomfield, Colo.
Stephen Young’s white oak flooring project was located in Aspen, Colo.
Shadetree Hardwood Floors | Traverse City, Mich.
Bill Bagley shared this massive renovation of a 120-year-old lake home in Lake Leelanau, Mich. The project involved restoring 3,000 square feet of beech and installing an additional 4,000 square feet of 7-inch rustic white oak. “Serious creativity required,” he says. “Loving it, but tired!”
