Recent flooring work across San Diego County
Every floor on this page was laid by Stone Peters and his own crew — none of it was subcontracted out. They are grouped by the town they are in, so you can see the work near you, and you can filter by the kind of work if you already know what you want.
Where a photograph comes from a job that has been written up, its caption links to the write-up. To read those directly, start with our flooring projects.
104 photos from 12 towns. There are more on Instagram.
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Showing 104 of 104 photos across every town we work in.
Rancho Santa Fe
22 photos
Herringbone laid up to a stone threshold, with the golf course beyond the glass.Read about this job: Herringbone carried through a whole great room and around a curve 
The same herringbone, scribed around the curve of the bar. 
Herringbone carried across the whole great room rather than stopped at the doorway. 
Every board along that curve is an individual cut. 
Winder treads on a curved flight — each one is scribed to its own footprint. 
Dark treads against a limed oak cap, up the curve of the wall. 
Wide plank scribed tight to the stone of the hearth. 
The moisture barrier over the leveled slab. This is the layer nobody sees and the one that decides whether the floor lasts.Read about this job: Flat, dry, then floored — one room, a week apart 
Self-leveler filling the low spots. Flat first, then the barrier, then the floor. 
The finished floor in the same room — three photos and about a week apart. 
Oak treads, painted risers, and a runner over a checkerboard marble entry.Read about this job: A curved oak staircase over a marble checkerboard entry 
Looking down the winders. The runner is cut and bound to each tread. 
The whole flight, from the landing down. 
The upstairs hall in the same oak that runs down the stairs. 
Oak run up to a black slate hearth, cut square and tight. 
Wide-plank oak through the kitchen, where most people are told to use tile. 
Self-leveler down the hall. It has to be dead flat before anything goes over it. 
A marble mosaic runner set flush into herringbone oak, with a mitered oak border.Read about this job: A marble mosaic runner set flush into a herringbone floor 
The entry the runner was built for. 
Straight down the inlay. The border had to be mitered at every corner. 
Oak treads over hand-glazed tile risers, with the LED tucked under each nosing.Read about this job: Oak treads over hand-glazed Spanish tile risers 
The finished flight, lit.
Carmel Valley
21 photos
Treads, risers, and floor all cut from the same limed oak.Read about this job: A staircase cut from the same limed oak as the floor it lands on 
The mitered tread return. Done properly there is no end grain showing. 
Oak treads, painted risers, iron balusters — the carpet-to-hardwood conversion people ask for most.Read about this job: Oak treads over painted risers, and the three steps that set the flight 
The newel and the first three treads, where the geometry has to be right. 
Acacia laid out in a room with the baseboards still off.Read about this job: Figured acacia through a whole house, around everything in it 
Carried through the doorway rather than stopped with a T-moulding. 
A mitered change of direction at the hearth, cut on site. 
Wood to travertine, flush, with no metal strip between them. 
The transition detail from the other side. 
Two hard surfaces meeting on one line. 
Scribed into the corner between two column bases. 
Working around the furniture, room by room. 
Acacia, mitered into the hearth surround. 
The mitre lines up across three boards. 
The figure in acacia is the reason people choose it. 
A clean square line where the wood stops. 
Straight through from hall to bedroom, no threshold. 
Late afternoon on a finished acacia floor. 
The dining room, back in service. 
Scribed around two cabinet bases in one run. 
Cut to follow rough stone. There is no straight line to work from here.
Encinitas
14 photos
Brazilian cherry, refinished. The color range is in the wood, not the stain.Read about this job: Brazilian cherry brought back without a drop of stain 
Sanded back to bare wood, everything masked, before the first coat. 
The same floor with the finish on it. 
Adhesive combed out around a vent boot. The ridges have to collapse, not hold air. 
Tile to wood, with a transition milled from the same oak. 
Engineered white oak, which is the safer call this close to the water. 
One step down, with the nosing mitered so no end grain shows. 
A sunken living room edge, wrapped in the same oak. 
Wood and stone brought up dead level with each other. 
Character-grade oak — knots and all — in a new build. 
The landing, matched to the treads below it.Read about this job: Carpeted stairs converted to white oak, treads and risers both 
A full carpet-to-oak staircase conversion, treads and risers both. 
Where the stair lands on the travertine. 
Side on, the mitered returns run the length of the flight.
La Jolla
13 photos
How it started. Fifty years of wear on red oak.Read about this job: Fifty years of wear taken off a red oak floor 
The first cut with the drum sander. 
Screening between grits, with the vacuum running. 
Halfway through the first cut. The dark patches are old finish. 
Bare wood, ready for finish. 
The wet edge. Stop moving and it shows in the finished floor. 
Finished, in the natural tone the owners asked for. 
Down at floor level, where flatness either shows or does not. 
A slab this close to the water gets a barrier, not a hope. 
Oak floor running to the edge of a glass balustrade.Read about this job: A white oak staircase with the light built into it 
LED tucked under every nosing, wired before the treads went down. 
From the landing down. The light is in the stair, not on the wall. 
Treads and risers in the same oak as the floor.
San Diego
6 photos
Vinyl plank in a bedroom — quiet, waterproof, and honest about what it is. 
A pale, straight-grained plank down the hall. 
The stair mid-build, with the treads on and the rail still to come. 
The same stair with the balustrade in. 
A wet bar built to match the kitchen. 
Cabinets set and levelled, waiting on stone.
Santaluz
5 photos
Self-leveler in the entry, with the plank stacked and acclimating at the edge.Read about this job: A hall poured in one go, so there is no cold joint under the oak 
Down the whole hall in one pour, so there is no cold joint. 
The finished oak, in the room the leveler went into. 
Open stringer, so every tread end is exposed and has to be right. 
The entry from above, oak floor and oak treads matched.
Valley Center
5 photos
Cabinets over a sealed slab — the floor is the floor.Read about this job: A slab doing the job of a finished floor 
Walnut over gray, on polished concrete. 
The slab, ground and sealed, doing the job of a finished floor. 
Burnished concrete takes a beating in a rural property. 
Acid stain in blue. The mottling is the slab reacting, not a pattern.
Del Mar
3 photos
A maple floor from the 1980s, worth saving.Read about this job: A 1980s maple floor that was worth saving 
Edging the perimeter, where a drum sander cannot reach. 
The same maple with three coats on it.
Escondido
3 photos
The pour. Gold is dropped into wet black resin and moved by hand.Read about this job: The garage floor a customer designed with AI 
Still wet. What it does in the next twenty minutes is the whole design. 
The floor a customer designed with AI, two days after the pour.
Carlsbad
2 photos
Built-ins and a solid oak mantel, built on site. 
The same wall from the middle of the job.
San Marcos
1 photo
Acid stain reacts with the slab itself, so no two floors come out the same.Read about this job: Acid stain, which reacts with the slab rather than coating it
San Diego County
9 photos
Dark plank run up to a black marble surround. 
Wood finished under a glass partition, with nothing to hide the cut. 
A linear vent let into the plank so it sits dead flush. 
Adhesive combed out, boards stacked and ready. 
Halfway across the room. 
One continuous pour across an open plan, arches and all. 
Floating shelves in white oak, taped while the adhesive grabs. 
Glass-flat while it is still wet. That is the point of it. 
Stained, sealed, and back in service.
About these photographs
Every photograph on this site was taken by Stone Peters on a job he worked. None of them are stock, and none were supplied by a manufacturer or a customer. They are © Top Tier Custom Floors, all rights reserved.
If you would like to use one — a designer showing a client a finish, a supplier, a publication — please ask first. The answer is usually yes, and it costs nothing; we just want to know where the work is being shown.
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