Weekend Update

Not much going on at the house today, except one of the floor people was there to put the flooring in our elevator and also to lay the wormy Chestnut flooring in the foyer. We wanted some Chestnut wood in our house as a reminder of the huge Chestnut trees that once grew on our ridge line (and still do, although only as baby trees). We bought some reclaimed barn siding made of Chestnut and had it cut into flooring, which the installer cut to size and glued down as a 6' x 10' inset in our front foyer tile. Here most of it is covered up by objects he used to keep the wood weighted down while the glue dries, but you can see the warm color and rich patterns of the grain, along with the worm holes.

The piece of wood under the bucket happens to be the slab of wormy Chestnut we are going to use for our mantle piece.