The NWFA’s Wooden Ground of the Yr (WFOY) awards had 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 firms all through the world.
Submissions for the 2024 Wooden Ground of the Yr are actually open. Winners shall be introduced throughout 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 functions of stains, oils, dyes, reactive conditioners, layered colour methods, fake ending, or different ending methods. This class additionally consists of textured wooden flooring surfaces comparable to hand-scraped, wire-brushed, distressed, sculpted, or any floor that isn’t conventional flat. Particulars of the processes have to 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 comparable to circles, ovals, curves, radial patterns, arcs, or bent materials. Particulars of the processes have to be included within the description.
BEST IN PARQUETRY
Entries on this class embrace any wooden flooring format composed of picket blocks organized in a geometrical sample put in right into a flooring undertaking. Particulars of the set up course of have to be included within the description. It have to 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 have to be included within the description.
BEST IN HISTORIC RESTORATION
Entries on this class embrace all varieties of restoration initiatives, replacements, or repairs, in both a residential or business software. Submissions can’t be a earlier Wooden Ground of the Yr entry. For this class, an extra photograph of the “earlier than” ground is required for judging. Any recognized 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 expertise (CNC, laser, and so forth). 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 initiatives utilizing their merchandise. Initiatives might showcase the merchandise that had been used, in addition to details about the businesses concerned within the undertaking. Particulars of the undertaking have to be included within the description.
BEST STAIRCASE
Entries on this class embrace all varieties of staircase initiatives. Submissions might embrace new stair installations, or overlays, in both a residential or business software. Submissions can’t be a earlier Wooden Ground 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 shall be eligible, which can embrace all varieties of flooring in all classes.
Click on right here to learn the official Wooden Ground of the Yr Guidelines.
Questions? Contact us at data@nwfa.org or 800.422.4556.