White oak
A stable main-floor floor when the subfloor is flat and the house has lived through a season.
Materials
A board, not a catalogue.
The finishes that show up together in a kitchen, a bath, and a main floor. Each one depends on the one installed before it.
Quartz
Templated after the cabinets are standing. A seam is designed, not discovered on install day.
Plaster and paint
The last surface. Colour is read against the stone and the wood already in the room.
Porcelain tile
Wet rooms and a kitchen floor. The substrate does the work the tile is praised for.
Painted millwork
Shaker or slab, the boxes are only as true as the walls they hang on.