One man’s pile of wood scraps is another man’s dream art project.
Alexey Steshak, a self-professed mad decorator, created a gorgeous floor out of random pieces of wood. It took him five months to complete the 56 sq. m. floor for a beauty salon — not including the time it took for drying and preparing the materials. he calls the project, The Hardwood Floor with Ceramic Birds.
We’ll let Alex take it from here.
“I used wind-fallen trees, some cut trees left after the fruit orchards thinning, and some trees were just brought by my friends. In the end, I had 40 bags of small wood pieces.”
“So, I had such type of wood as: oak, Manchurian walnut, apricot tree, apple tree, pear tree, karagach, ash, birch, ash-tree maple, American walnut, cherry tree, larch, rowan and a little mahogany.”
“The wood used for the “tree”: maple, birch, pine, larch, American cherry, pear, cherry, oak.”
“For the background: apple, pear, apricot, Manchurian walnut, mahogany, oak, Siberian, Ukrainian oak, Hungarian beech, ash.”
“I put the 10 mm plywood on a flat concrete subfloor and then glued the wood blocks on it.”
“Despite it was a long and very laborious process, it was a great pleasure for me, and I’ve never regretted that I started it.”
“I love my occupation and I’m happy that I can come up with and implement such projects on my own.”
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