Chessboard Floor

We had lots of leftover exotic woods in our flooring warehouse. Our flooring artist, Dominic, had the idea to make something out of them. Each piece was individually cut and glued to the subfloor, then sanded and finished. The exotic woods used here are Santos Mahogany, Maple, Wenge, and Brazilian Cherry
Subfloor / BorderFitting
Fitting the border and first squares to the subfloor.
You can see the many small squares used for the floor and how they are arranged on the subfloor.
The pieces here are fitting in nicely and 1/4 of the floor is almost done!
Here is the final floor installed in our main showroom floor!
Another angle where you can see many of the samples seen in our showroom.
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  • Hannah V Hannah V on Feb 02, 2015
    How cool!
  • Yair Spolter Yair Spolter on Feb 11, 2015
    This is really cool! Where did you get the giant chess pieces?
    • @Yair Spolter We're not sure where they were purchased exactly, but they were from an online store. A quick search online resulted in www.megachess.com but we'll try to get the exact store we bought them from (Joan, Slaughterbeck Floors owner, purchased them and she's been on vacation for a couple weeks).
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