00:00These villas were built in 1931. By the 1980s, they'd been abandoned. I took them on in 2021
00:07and brought them back to life. But there was one thing I wasn't completely happy with,
00:12and that was the floor. These buildings aren't level anywhere, so the planks had started
00:18separating and buckling. And even on its best day, that floor was just functional. So I started
00:24asking, what if the floor could be the design feature instead of just a surface? Something
00:30timeless but distinctive, something with movement and texture. That's how I landed here with Malibu
00:37Wide Planks French Oak Delano Tongue and Groove Herringbone Engineered Hardwood Flooring.
00:44Herringbone in a 1931 villa. It's a pattern people have admired for centuries, symbolizing luxury and
00:52sophisticated craftsmanship. It just felt like the right choice for this space. The planks are
00:59premium French oak, so there's real character in the grain and the color shifts from board to board.
01:05The surface is finely wire brushed. You can see that texture and you can feel it underfoot. The
01:12finish is super low gloss, a soft matte look that reads modern and refined. And there are eight coats
01:19of protective urethane on it, which matters in a house people will walk through for another hundred
01:24years. Then it was just locking that V pattern together piece by piece. The difference was
01:31immediate. The room feels dynamic now, elevated. The pattern pulls your eye across the floor and the
01:38whole space feels like it's in motion. Every angle reveals something new. It looks custom designed
01:45because it is. And Delano is such a beautiful neutral. It brightened everything. The room feels
01:53more open, airier, and the light moves across this herringbone in a way the old floor never allowed.
02:01Then came my favorite part, styling it. All the pieces I've been collecting, the furniture, the lighting,
02:08the textiles. All came together with the beautiful wallpaper and the beautiful green cabinet color
02:14to make a completely curated space. Our guests can sit on that adorable swing and nothing competes
02:23anymore. The floor is the foundation that ties the whole room together and it still brings flair of its
02:29own. What was an ordinary tired room now feels curated, sophisticated, full of character, and ready for our next
02:38guest? It didn't just transform the floor, it transformed the entire space. After 95 years,
02:47this room finally has the floor it deserves. We wanted to give the home office a refresh and first on
02:55the
02:55list was to replace the old carpet with new floors. We decided to go with Malibu wide plank tongue and
03:00groove engineered hardwood for the high quality craftsmanship of their floor options that offer rich color
03:05in a two millimeter thick wood veneer layer. To begin this project, we removed all of the furniture
03:11from the room and began ripping up the carpet. We used pliers to pull up a corner of the carpet
03:17and
03:17a utility knife to cut the carpet and padding into manageable strips. After that, all of the staple
03:22strips, nails, staples throughout the room that were still stuck in the subfloor needed to be removed.
03:27Once all were pulled out, we did a good sweep of the room to make sure we had a nice
03:32clean surface to
03:32begin laying the floors. We chose the color French Oak Crown for our floors. Each box comes with planks
03:38of different lengths to ensure variability in the laying pattern with the longest length being 74.81
03:44inches. This product features an antique finishing and staining process for more vivid color and depth
03:49to accent each plank as well as features a generous two millimeter thick wood veneer layer. To begin the
03:55laying process, we first lay down a chalk line along the longest wall to ensure a perfectly straight first
04:00row rather than just measuring from the wall since we know that not all walls are perfectly straight
04:06themselves. We measured half an inch for expansion plus the width of the board to lay the chalk line.
04:11Now to install the planks, we pulled from a few different boxes to ensure variability through the
04:17room as well as different lengths. We lined up the first board with the groove side along the chalk line
04:22with half an inch gap at the wall. Using a pressurized nail gun angled along the tongue at approximately
04:2845 degree angle to connect to the next successive boards, the tongue on the top of the next board connects
04:35with the groove on the bottom of the last board. To align properly, we place a small wooden block along
04:41the tongue side of the next board and use the mallet to tap along the block to push the board
04:47into place.
04:48Because the tongue side can be a little brittle and can break, the small block allowed for the dispersion
04:54of forces along the tongue side rather than just concentrated at a single point right on the board.
04:59We then nailed down the next board into place with nails within one to two inches of the ends. This
05:05process continued until the end of the row where we use a miter saw to cut the end of the
05:10board, again
05:11measuring to leave an approximately half inch gap at the wall. Now with the second row and throughout the rest
05:16of
05:16the room, each successive board we aligned and tapped to fit snugly the tongue and grooves on the sides
05:21and tapped up to align the top and bottom grooves of the planks. At the door, we used a jam
05:26saw or
05:27oscillating tool to cut a small gap to allow the planks to slide underneath the door casing and used
05:32a jigsaw to cut the board to match the pattern needed to go around the wall. We used a crowbar
05:37to very
05:38carefully push the planks into place in those tighter spaces at the wall where we couldn't fit the block.
05:43For the rest of the room, we ensured we altered the lengths of each board to create that variability
05:48in a laying pattern. Coming to the last piece, we chose to use liquid nails to adhere the plank to
05:54the subfloor and the surrounding planks since we could not nail that piece into place. We finished
05:59the floor by installing a quarter round around the perimeter of the room. The finished product
06:04absolutely elevates the room. This elaborate finishing and staining process Malibu Wide Plank utilizes to
06:11finish the boards. It brings out that natural beauty of premium hardwood and creates such a warm and
06:16inviting feel to any space.
