Some pics of the finished room.











Next, I tackle the hallway.

Looks like you exceeded your own expectations!!

I was way over my head starting this project but this message board really helped. In fact, I could not start without the initial advice from Gary and others.

I've got other problems with the hallway leading to this room that I'll post shortly.

That looks very nice!

Looks great! Now, is the wife happy with you or what?

Looks very impressive, now finish the hallway

To show your gratitude, you can post $500.00 to my PayPal acct.

I think gary made a funny

That's more like what she said!

Here's the hallway, with (10) openings to work around! One sheet is split up the middle; the seam has a 1/8" step that will need to be worked. Fortunately, I don't see any other seams.



Here' the carpet that I generously cut leading to the living room. Do I need a professional carpet layer to put this stuff back where it belongs? If not, can I buy tack strips at Lowes or the BORG?



How many small pieces of plywood does it take? Here's five pieces where one sheet could have been placed. Fortunately, all the pieces appear fairly level.

yeah I just LOVE doing hallways like that The carpet looks long enough to turn and tack. I dont turn and tack it myself (Ive tried never get satisfactory results) So I have a carpet guy come in the evenings and do it for me usually 10 per doorway.

As for all the small pieces of plywwod, I constantly see things like that, builders use every usuable piece, and sometimes have to cut sections out to do repairs to something, it all looks the same when the carpet goes down.

I would definatley grab a bunch of scrap doards and arrange them in the hallway to see how the border will lay out. Its like a puzzle.

I would feature strip the hallway, instead of a full contrasting border.

Yeah, using full boards for a border might get too busy there. I did it once but the Hallway was 4ft wide and the wood was 2 1/4. You could rip some wood to make a feature strip.

As suggested, lay down some boards to see what it would look like.

It looks like the hallway is supposed to run the short way (The same way the existing tigerwood is running) at least thats how the joists look in the picture.

If I was to put a feature stip in that hallway, I would lay the field the short way, then cut it back almost 1 full board off the walls (enough so the full board was just covered by the shoe/quarter round.) and I would use the same type of wood in all the doorways (so they would have 2 boards of the different wood)

this may help explain

http://www.hardwoodflooringtalk.com/php ... php?t=6067

Yes, that's my though too, shown like the pic just above.

The floor is pretty stiff, it appears that there is a 3/4' sheet over another 3/4" sheet (or maybe 1/2"?) I can't feel any deflection anywhere so I'd like to run the pieces lengthwise starting from the center and working both ways. I'll post a pic a few pieces layed-out before I start to solicit some comment. It looks like I'll get 11 pieces of maple that way with partial row of cherry running the border. At the doors and other openings I'll use two pieces of cherry with a 1/4" gap to the tile.

Remember, I picked up this wood in a mixed lot of three species: clear maple, rustic maple (many cool looking pieces but most are short with knots and other imperfections showing) and Brazilian cherry (Tiger). I've got barely enough of the rustic to finish the hall and may have to use some of the clear to finish up (but not enough clear to finish the hall by itself). I've got 12-15 long 8' pieces of cherry left and those will probably need to be cut shorter to ease handling around the openings. I like the look of the rustic in the hall as it gets the most traffic and will hide any scuffs or knocks that might come about.