Wednesday, June 1, 2016

The floor

About ten years ago, Doreen Robertson, a friend who lived in our building and was the former owner of the Pet and Hobby Shop in St. Albert, gave me a tube of 24" x 1/4" cherry veneer. I haven't counted them but I think there are at least 200 pieces in the tube. (Until last week, I hadn't looked at the price on the end of the tube - $55.00?!?)

Until a couple weeks ago, I hadn't used it.

I started with a cardstock template of the floor of the lamp roombox. I knew I wanted an outer edge of plain cherry with a second row of black. So I cut the four mitred pieces of each for the outer edge then four more pieces that I stained black with my trusty black permanent marker.




 I then glued them in place then started to fill in the rest of the floor in a brick pattern.

Now I had to figure out how to cut all the inner pieces properly with all the correct angles. I cut the 24" pieces of veneer in half , taped 11 of them together at one end, than placed them in the gluing jig I got from Samm Brockhurst.

From one end, measured them with the ruler (1 1/4")

then clamped the ruler in place and cut the strips to 1 1/4" length.

 Kept doing this until I had all the pieces cut.

Then, starting from the middle of the template, I started gluing all the pieces in place.  The first (middle row) was the 1 1/4" pieces, then on either side I cut the 1 1/4" piece in half to start then went with the 1 1/4" pieces again.

Here it's coming together.

And the left side completed...

Now the right side...

Shoot! Now I have to fill in all those holes at the top. Measure them off...

Cut them...

Then put them in place.


I can't find the picture here to transition from the flooring to the floor. But I put four strips of Duck indoor/outdoor carpet tape across the floor then dropped the flooring in place.



Couple things I would have done differently:

I would have coloured the cardstock to match the wood so the very tiny pieces where I didn't quite get pieces of wood together wouldn't have mattered.

Not so sure if I would have done this one - although it certainly would have been easier. Instead of filling in those teeny pieces at the end, I maybe could have cut that piece to fit.




4 comments:

  1. The floor looks amazing Maureen! Isn't the lamp base room box fun? That's the one I used for my New Orleans lamp project I have on my blog. I did have Wayne cut a side wall for me and a little corner one to go between the two. I love the final result as I know you will yours. - Marilyn D., Oromocto, NB

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    1. Thanks Marilyn. As fiddly as it was, I'm pleased with the end result.
      I love the lamp base roombox. This is my second one and I have another in the wings.
      Hugs, Maureen

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  2. Love the floor pattern with the black border. A great deal of measuring and positioning but a fantastic result in the end...thanks for sharing your tips. I laid down a cherry parquet floor over a dark red/brown base and it did help mask the tiniest of gaps. Looking forward to seeing the project develop...Alayne in Winnipeg

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    1. Thanks Alayne.
      Hope at some point to get more adventurous with my flooring.
      Glad you were smarter than I was about the base.
      Any chance you might make it to Edmonton for our Show and Sale on September 18? Would love to meet you.
      Maureen

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