Wood Floor Business

1 month ago | woodfloorbusiness.com | Sophia Voight

In 2024, longtime wood flooring pro Stephen Diggins took a “gap year” after working decades as a distributor. He usedthat time off to reconnect with many of the friends he had made in the industry over the years, and at the top of thatlist was lifelong friend Dave Hoyt. Diggins and Hoyt met in the early 2000s when Hoyt was one of Diggins’ customers,and Hoyt has since opened his own distribution company, South Hampton, N.H.-based Seacoast Floor Supply.

1 month ago | woodfloorbusiness.com | Sophia Voight

When Jeremy Partridge, owner of Brookfield,Mass.-based Jerokee Flooring, set out to createa game room for his kids, he went beyond addingthe typical board games and arcade machines—heturned the whole floor into a game. Partridge hasbeen keeping a notebook with fun wood flooringdesigns for years, so constructing a game room wasthe perfect opportunity to execute a Pac-Man mazedesign from his notebook. The wooden Pac-Man maze is 289 square feetand made of maple and American cherry.

1 month ago | woodfloorbusiness.com | Kim Wahlgren

When Chuck Crispin designed and installed the beautiful parquet wood flooring in the Swope Art Museum in his hometown of Terre Haute, Ind., in 1998, he didn’t anticipate the flooring wouldn’t be recoated for more than 20 years, but that’s how it turned out, and when he returned to care for the floors, “a lot of dirt was walked into the grain,” he says.

1 month ago | woodfloorbusiness.com | Sophia Voight

Upon walking into the lobby of Fitchburg,Wis.-based therapeutic research centerUsona Institute, patients are greeted by agrand 1,296-square-foot sunburst floor centeredwith a stone medallion. The show-stoppingfloor was created by Winneconne, Wis.-basedOshkosh Designs and was such a massiveconstruction that the company had to clear outits entire warehouse to build the floor.

1 month ago | woodfloorbusiness.com | Sophia Voight

Warm,naturaltones havetaken overthe woodfloors in theNashville, Tenn., suburbs ashomeowners shift away fromprevious gray floor trends,say Mount Juliet, Tenn.-basedBrown Oaks Flooring ownersJeff and Ashley Do Carmo. They add that homeownersstarted asking for light,earth-toned stains after thepandemic. “People weresuddenly at home all the timeand wanted a change,” Ashleysays. Personally, Ashley saysshe’s on board with the trendand often recommends it tocustomers.