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Submissions Open for 2024 NWFA Wooden Flooring of the Yr Awards


The NWFA’s Wooden Flooring of the Yr (WFOY) awards have been developed to encourage and acknowledge revolutionary craftsmanship and design in wooden flooring installations. Because the program started in 1990, greater than 300 awards have been offered to NWFA member corporations all through the world.

Submissions for the 2024 Wooden Flooring of the Yr at the moment are open.

Submit NWFA Wooden Flooring of the Yr Entries Right here

Submit Non-Member NWFA Wooden Flooring of the Yr Entries Right here

All entries should be obtained by Thursday, February 1, 2024, at 5 pm CT to be thought-about.

Winners can be introduced through the 2024 NWFA Wooden Flooring Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana.

CATEGORIES

BEST IN COLORS, FINISHES, AND TEXTURED WOOD

Entries on this class embrace all varieties of jobsite utilized purposes of stains, oils, dyes, reactive conditioners, layered colour programs, fake ending, or different ending programs. This class additionally contains textured wooden flooring surfaces corresponding to hand-scraped, wire-brushed, distressed, sculpted, or any floor that isn’t conventional flat. Particulars of the processes should be included within the description.

BEST IN CIRCLES/CURVES/BENT WOOD

Entries on this class embrace any non-linear, hand-cut, curved form, sample, or design inside a flooring system. The flooring design ought to embrace components corresponding to circles, ovals, curves, radial patterns, arcs, or bent materials. Particulars of the processes should be included within the description.

BEST IN PARQUETRY

Entries on this class embrace any wooden flooring structure composed of picket blocks organized in a geometrical sample put in right into a flooring undertaking. Particulars of the set up course of should be included within the description. It should be recognized clearly whether or not the sample was hand-cut or manufactured into the sample.

BEST IN MARQUETRY AND INLAYS

Entries on this class embrace any hand-cut marquetry/intarsia design put in into the ground, as a stand-alone characteristic/medallion, or all through the whole undertaking. Inlays might embrace something laid into the ground. Particulars of the hand-cutting course of should be included within the description.

BEST IN HISTORIC RESTORATION

Entries on this class embrace all varieties of restoration tasks, replacements, or repairs, in both a residential or industrial software. Submissions can’t be a earlier Wooden Flooring of the Yr entry. For this class, a further picture of the “earlier than” ground is required for judging. Any identified historical past of the ground additionally ought to be included.

BEST USE OF TECHNOLOGY

Entries on this class have put in flooring using developments in know-how (CNC, laser, and so on). Particulars of the manufacturing and set up course of ought to be included within the description.

MANUFACTURER SPOTLIGHT

This class provides producers a class to submit any tasks utilizing their merchandise. Tasks might showcase the merchandise that have been used, in addition to details about the businesses concerned within the undertaking. Particulars of the undertaking should be included within the description.

BEST STAIRCASE

Entries on this class embrace all varieties of staircase tasks. Submissions might embrace new stair installations, or overlays, in both a residential or industrial software. Submissions can’t be a earlier Wooden Flooring of the Yr entry. For this class, NWFA has partnered with the Stairbuilders and Producers Affiliation (SMA) to assist judging for high quality and craftsmanship.

MEMBERS’ CHOICE

Entry on this class is computerized. All flooring entered into the competition can be eligible, which can embrace all varieties of flooring in all classes.

Click on right here to learn the official Wooden Flooring of the Yr Guidelines.

Questions? Contact us at data@nwfa.org or 800.422.4556.

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