Yesteryear's "The Room"...

[Stick486]

this is the start of the great room...
the walls weren't straight and the room it's self was just over 4" out of square...
the DW work was to straighten up the walls and remove the worst of the swales...
the border was to "help w/" the out of squareness and give the illusion that all was copacetic...
even the SGD had to be redone to make it coplaner...
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Border - outer-outer corner.JPG

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Border zag with extra out protective strip.JPG

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Border zig with extra outer protective strips.JPG

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Border along long inner wall.JPG

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Hardwood floor showing how diagonals lead from great rooms new entrance from kitchen to sliding door.JPG

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the start of the diagonals... in theory it was suppose to be 30/60 cuts but that never happened... the angles were all over the map...
I pushed for wider flooring but she couldn't see it... until we got to the end and how busy the floor was...
the open area in the fore ground is to become the deck w/ the medallion...
I did concentrate on flow and build to/on and not "fill in"...
the border was set so that all of the diagonal, 1st to last, were the same size so as not to have any fillers...
the extra wide border look that way because they had temp edge protectors as foot traffic guards...
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Hardwood floor diagonals from kitchen.JPG

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the finished product..
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[Cherryville Chuck]

I've seen many cases where someone had their heart set on something and their mind made up and you couldn't impress on them how unpractical the idea was or convince them that it wouldn't be to their liking once it was finished. I don't think I've ever worked to something that off square but the solution screams for something that is unlined and not heavily patterned like carpet, lino with no particular pattern, or maybe terrazzo if it needed to be very durable.