04/09/2026
There is no skirting in this room.
The stone runs all the way down and becomes the base. Which means the floor has nowhere to hide, and every cut along that curve is the line you are left with.
Most floors are laid with a few millimetres of tolerance around the perimeter, then covered by a skirting or a scotia. Take those away and the tolerance goes with them. The board has to meet stone that was cut, polished and set before we arrived, and hold a consistent line the whole way round.
Which is why the first photos here are of a bare slab covered in pink crayon. Every junction was drawn and checked on the concrete, then a single board was laid against the stone to read the run, before anything was fixed.
Praga carries the rest. A smoky mid brown across 220mm European Oak, warm enough to sit beside pale stone without ever competing with it.
The stone was always going to be the thing you notice. The floor's job was to make sure none of it looked difficult.
πͺ΅ Praga, Mega Collection (European Oak)
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