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Green Hardwood

Medallions · Herringbone · Borders · Crests

Hand-cut hardwood inlays, borders, and patterns — architecture underfoot.

Compass roses, herringbone fields, walnut borders, and custom crests cut from domestic and exotic hardwoods. Feature work for foyers, dining rooms, and boutique commercial.

Quoted per design · medallions from $2,800 · Design + install: 2–6 weeks

Hand-cut compass rose medallion in walnut, maple, and cherry set into a dining-room hardwood floor.
  • CAD layout and full-scale templates before a chisel hits the floor
  • Species contrast that will still read in 20 years, not just on install day
  • Borders that turn a builder-grade rectangle into a room

Pattern work is slow, and it should be. A 48-inch compass rose in a Rosedale dining room is a week of fitting, not an afternoon of glue. We cut, dry-fit, and only then commit finish.

What inlays looks like

The same floor with wide-plank white oak installed and site-finished, running toward the windows.
An empty main floor with a bare plywood subfloor, chalk snap-lines still visible, trim not yet installed.
BeforeAfter

What to look at: Board width, how the run meets the doorways, and whether the pattern is square to the room rather than to the longest wall.

Illustrative rendering, not documentary job photography. We will not put a manufactured before-and-after in front of you.

Where we take inlays

Pins are service coverage and published bands, not a record of past jobs. Open one for the local band and what we take on there.

Inlays

Custom Inlays & Patterns across the GTA

Municipalities
32
Core
20
We travel
12
Worked examples
1
  • Studio & workshop — Sterling Road. Stair components are built here, then fitted on site.
  • Core service area — Free on-site measure for any qualified hardwood, stair or railing job.
  • Extended range — We travel here for stair packages, whole-home installs and refinishing — not a single-room repair.
  • Worked example — A specification we build to, pinned at the municipality centre. Not a client record and not an address.

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Worked examples on this map

Worked examples are specifications this shop builds to, pinned at the municipality centre — not a client record, not an address, and not a claim that a job happened on your street.

What this job runs on

The equipment classes this work depends on, and what a shop without each one does instead. Worth reading before you compare quotes.

Commissioned illustration of the machine class, not a photograph of our own equipment.

Questions about inlays

Can you inlay a family crest or logo?
Yes, within the limits of wood movement and grain. We will simplify a crest that would shatter at 1/8" detail. Commercial logos for boutique lobbies are a regular request.