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Picture 3 - Installing a maple and sapele floor with a border and large inlaid knot design. The homeowner found the design online as a quilt pattern and I drew it out on graph paper. Now to fill in the rest of the maple...
Picture 4 - Had to do some repairs due to a new cabinet layout and resand this red oak floor with walnut pegs. Was in pretty rough shape, bowed boards, finish worn completely through in some spots. I made 76 new pegs and used all but about 10, I also drilled some holes, ran a screw through the subfloor, and pegged them to eliminate some bad squeaks. I also sanded down deep enough to eliminate the bevels on each board. Turned out really nice!
Picture 6 - Floor I installed and sanded, the border and medallion were from a marquetry company in Michigan. I installed all 36 stairs with the same wood as the main floor to maintain the same look going up the stairs.
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Picture 7 - The grey grout will dry to a more white color but it looks great. The homeowners used a white wash on the stones to make them whiter, I mixed the grout from white cement, white lime, and white sand. With the water added it looked a bit grey but the bits that fell and dried overnight were white. I love it, but more importantly the homeowners love it!
Picture 10 - Shower, tub surround, and bathroom floor, the 24”x48” wall tiles were a bear, almost every one was a cut or had holes drilled. Sure looked great though, I like the clean lines of the black trims and simple look.
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Picture 12 - My favorite gray floor to date, it surprised me because the red in the red oak largely disappeared because we water popped the floor, a technique we learned about several years ago but learned more about in Germany.
Picture 13 - I’ve really enjoyed installing my own floor. Border is white oak, maple, jatoba, and a little bit of walnut, the body of the floor is red oak.
Picture 14 - Tigerwood floor and stairs we just refinished. Sanding around a hundred balusters was no fun but they look great. Cyndi used a machine called a Trio which makes the floor super flat, couldn’t have done it in the time allotted without her help. Bona Intense Seal and Traffic finish.
Picture 16 - Beautiful refinished hickory floor in a beautiful custom built home. I love hickory, it’s hard, durable, unique, and interesting.
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Picture 19 - Tiled around a shower enclosure in a hangar, the layout would have left me with little rips at the top and side, which would not look great and burns a lot of tile. They bought the tile 4 years ago so it wasn’t available anymore and the amount was tight enough that I was worried about running short. To solve it I suggested a border around the shower, flowing into base around the rest of the room. It worked great to not have tiny rips and I think it sets it off pretty nicely.
Picture 20 - Another monster shower that we wrapped up a couple weeks ago and I went and snapped some pictures after the plumbers got their part done. We don’t do many curbless showers but this addition was done with a curbless shower in mind, so the joists are framed 3 inches lower to account for the preslope and slope. One thing I really like about my work is making things work for people with the materials they have, the homeowner bought all this tile on marketplace sites for literally a couple hundred dollars, but there is very little room for error since you can’t go to the store and pick up any more of it!
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