Wood Floor of the Year 2018.

This project is a magnum opus, a privilege earned through 160+ hours of painstaking design, problem-solving, and craftsmanship. The initial design and execution were carried out entirely in-house at Treadline Construction.

Starting with raw S4S 1×6 stock, roughly 2,000 strips of 3/16″ were ripped by hand. A full-scale shop mockup was built to map every curve. Using custom jigs, 4-ton handheld hydraulics, clamps, and floor-anchored blocks, the strips were laminated into complex bends; no steam, no water, a process that alone took three weeks.

On site, 3¼″ white oak panels were made, templated, hand-cut, and refined through over 16 hours of belt-sanding and micro-adjustments to achieve final fit. Both the curves and panels were then full-spread glued down. Edges were guide-ripped and finished with a walnut feature strip and a 3¼″ white oak log-cabin border.

The floor's official name is Yggdrasil, the Norse tree of life, an ash tree in which all nine worlds of the ancient Norse cosmos nestle among its branches and roots. Like its namesake, this floor is expansive, deeply rooted, and built to endure.

This work required an extraordinary amount of patience, attention to detail, and creative problem-solving. The result is a one-of-a-kind masterpiece. one that we believe will redefine the boundaries of the wood flooring industry.