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NWFA Wood Floor of the Year — Parquetry

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Where Quality Meets Elegance

Custom parquetry, medallions and rare hardwood floors, cut piece by piece

NWFA Wood Floor of the Year — Parquetry

The studio

Wood, drawn as part of the architecture

We work in wood: medallions, parquetry floors, sculptural wall panels, tables and doors, each one made for a particular room. Every piece starts as a drawing on paper, sized to the room before a single board is cut.

Clients, designers and architects come with what they have: architectural drawings, a sketch, a photograph of the room or an idea to develop together. The drawing starts from there.

Craft

What we make

Seven kinds of work, one method behind all of them: draw it, cut it, fit it dry, then install it.

  1. Whole-room parquetry field with a patterned perimeter border — oak and maple, custom commission
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    Custom Parquetry

    Whole-room geometric fields, drawn to your dimensions and cut in the shop, so the pattern lands square against every wall.

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  2. Rose compass medallion with marquetry acanthus scrolls — black walnut and maple, custom commission
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    Medallions

    A compass rose, a star, a monogram. Cut from solid hardwood, ringed, and let into the field flush with the floor.

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  3. Pair of solid walnut sliding doors carved in sweeping relief, opening onto a dressing room — walnut, custom commission
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    Sculpted Doors

    Solid walnut panels carved in relief, the curves drawn to follow the figure of the wood. Each pair is made for its own opening.

  4. Double diamond border framing an oak field, with a diamond inlay at center — oak, custom commission
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    Borders & Inlays

    A running band around the room, a threshold marker, a diamond chain in contrasting wood. Mitered at the corners so the rhythm holds.

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  5. 05

    Herringbone & Chevron

    Two patterns people often confuse. Both start from a centerline drawn on the subfloor, which is why the run stays true across a long room.

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  6. 06

    Exotic & Wide-Plank Hardwood

    Walnut, hickory, padauk, ebonized oak. Boards chosen for figure, laid so the strongest grain falls where the light hits it.

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  7. 07

    Designer Luxury Vinyl Plank

    For basements, radiant heat and rooms that see standing water. Laid out with the same borders and patterns we draw for wood.

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Rose compass medallion set flush into a hard maple field — walnut and maple, custom commission

Signature piece

Rose Compass Medallion

Materials
Walnut and maple, hand-cut
Diameter
60 inches
Pieces
214, cut and fitted by hand
Project
Private residence, Spokane
Completed
2022

Eight long points between eight shorter, four cardinal letters, acanthus scrolls running off the diagonal, all ringed in dark stringing and set flush into a hard maple field. At standing height the walnut reads almost black against the maple, and that contrast is what keeps the points legible from the far side of the room.

Materials

The wood

Species get picked for how they behave next to each other. A pattern only works if the light wood stays light against the dark one after the finish goes on and the sun does its work.

More on species and wide plank

Process

From drawing to floor

Four stages, in this order, because each one settles a decision the next one depends on. You see a drawing and a cost figure before any wood is cut.

The process in full
  1. 01

    Measure and draw

    We take the room, then draw the pattern into it at scale. Scale matters more than style here: a medallion that suits a 12-foot entry disappears in a great room.

  2. 02

    Choose the wood

    Species are selected for contrast and for how they will move in your house. Samples go on the actual floor, in the actual light, before anything is ordered.

  3. 03

    Cut and fit on the bench

    Pieces are cut and assembled dry, so every joint is proven before glue. This is where the hours go, and it is what keeps the seams tight later.

  4. 04

    Install

    The field is laid to the drawn centerline, the pattern is set into it, then the floor is sanded flat and finished as one surface.

Selected work

Recent work

Medallions, borders, staircases, and one wood-to-stone seam that turns an S-curve without a metal strip. Every piece is listed with the species it was cut from.

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Curved wood-to-stone transition cut to an S-curve without a metal strip — walnut and travertine, custom commission
Curved wood-to-stone transitionWalnut · travertine
Quatrefoil mosaic medallion framed by a running border — emperador and crema marble, custom commission
Quatrefoil mosaic medallionEmperador · crema marble
Staircase with forged iron balusters and a continuous handrail — white oak, custom commission
Oak stair, forged balustersWhite oak · iron
Ebonized oak floor running into matching stair treads — white oak, custom commission
Ebonized floor and stairEbonized white oak
Painted staircase with light oak treads meeting a matching floor — oak, custom commission
Painted stair, oak treadsLight oak

Award

Recognition

Judged best in the Parquetry category, NWFA Wood Floor of the Year.

National Wood Flooring Association, 2026

Commissions

Start your floor

Every commission starts the same way. A room, its measurements, and a decision about how much pattern that room can carry. The drawing settles the rest.

Where we work

Part of this work has to happen in your room

A medallion can be built on a bench. A field pattern that has to land square against your walls cannot, and neither can the sanding that makes pattern and floor read as one surface.

Where we work, in full
  • SpokaneWA
  • Spokane ValleyWA
  • Liberty LakeWA
  • MeadWA
  • Airway HeightsWA
  • CheneyWA
  • Nine Mile FallsWA
  • Coeur d'AleneID
  • Post FallsID
  • HaydenID

Consultation

Tell us about the room

Bring a room, a rough size and one picture of something you like. That is enough to start a drawing. Species and scale get settled once we have seen the space.

Oval medallion of three inlaid crowns on a radiating field, ringed and set into a dark border — Church of St. John Cantius, Chicago, 1998

Project details

For quicker questions

The room, how it is used, and what you want from the floor.

Room photos, a floor plan or a saved image you keep coming back to. Up to 5.

What you send is used to quote your project. Nothing else.