With our specialized tools and our wonderful Wood Artisans, we hand scrape and use specialized techniques to bring your average oak floor to an entire new level! Below is the picture of the original floor the customer began with. It is a 2&1/4 inch wide Red Oak Select. A beautiful floor, but very average here in Wichita, KS. The owners of this home wanted their floors to make a statement and have a one of a kind, personalized floor.
The home owners decided that they would like their floors to look like a wider plank with a hand scrape look to it. We came in with our specialized tools and hand scrapers to scrape out the look of the wider planks. Below are pictures of an area we patched in because there was a fireplace that was removed. You can see the difference in the new wood and the old because we hadn't sanded the floor yet at this point. Just from this point in the job the floor has already taken on a completely different look!
Below is a picture of Jesse hand scraping the new beveled edges in between the "new" 6&3/4 inch plank. After he finished with all of the new edges, we sanded the floors down and then added the cross cuts, to give the boards a new plank look.
Once we sanded and hand scraped all of the floors, the next step was to stain the floor! Below are two pictures of the floor just after the stain was applied. After the stain dries over night we will be back in the morning to begin coating the floor.
The stain pictures were just taken this morning, so we have not yet coated the floor until tomorrow morning. But even without the finished pictures, you can already see the difference in the look of the floors from day one to today! The greatest thing about wood floors, is that the sky is the limit! There are so many unique and fun things that can be done to wood floors. We always tell our customers that their imagination is the limit! If you can dream it up, we can most certainly attempt to make it come true!
We want the world to look at wood floors as the true pieces of art they are. There is no one same floor when it comes down to it. Each home has wood from a different tree and each board has it's own finger print with the grain patterns. Give us a call today if you have an idea you would like to attempt with your wood floors. We love challenges! Wichita Wood Floor Specialists 316-747-4066.
