Flooring projects in San Diego County
Not a gallery. Each of these is one job, with the material, the town it is in, what made it harder than laying plank in an empty room, and how it was solved.
15 documented projects across 9 towns — Carmel Valley, Del Mar, Encinitas, Escondido, La Jolla, Rancho Santa Fe, San Marcos, Santaluz and Valley Center. Every photograph was taken by Stone on the job.
Carmel Valley · 2026
Figured acacia through a whole house, around everything in it
Mitered into a travertine hearth, scribed around column bases, run flush to tile with no metal strip, and laid room by room around the furniture.
Escondido · 2025
The garage floor a customer designed with AI
A client brought an AI-generated image of the floor they wanted. Working out which half of it resin can actually do was the job.
Metallic Epoxy
Rancho Santa Fe · 2025
A marble mosaic runner set flush into a herringbone floor
Two materials of different thicknesses, brought up dead level, with a mitered oak border cut at every corner.
Herringbone
La Jolla · 2025
A white oak staircase with the light built into it
LED wired in under each nosing before the treads went down, with a glass balustrade and a black steel handrail.
Stairs
Rancho Santa Fe · 2025
Oak treads over hand-glazed Spanish tile risers
Wood treads and tile risers on the same flight, lit from beneath, with two trades meeting on every step.
Stairs
La Jolla · 2023
Fifty years of wear taken off a red oak floor
The full sequence, start to finish: worn red oak, three grits, a screen between each, and a natural finish that put the grain back.
Refinishing
Encinitas · 2026
Carpeted stairs converted to white oak, treads and risers both
The conversion people ask for most, done properly: mitered returns down the whole flight and a landing matched to the treads.
Stairs
Rancho Santa Fe · 2024
A curved oak staircase over a marble checkerboard entry
Winder treads scribed to their own footprints, with a runner cut and bound to each one.
Stairs
Santaluz · 2024
A hall poured in one go, so there is no cold joint under the oak
The prep nobody sees: self-leveler down the whole hall in a single pour, plank acclimating at the edge of the room.
Hardwood
Rancho Santa Fe · 2023
Flat, dry, then floored — one room, a week apart
Self-leveler, then a troweled moisture barrier, then the floor. Three photographs of the same room about a week apart.
Hardwood
Rancho Santa Fe · 2021
Herringbone carried through a whole great room and around a curve
Run through the open plan instead of stopped at the doorway, scribed around a curved bar and cut to a curved wall of glass.
Herringbone
San Marcos · 2026
Acid stain, which reacts with the slab rather than coating it
The color is a chemical reaction with the slab's own minerals, so no two floors come out the same.
Concrete
Valley Center · 2025
A slab doing the job of a finished floor
No covering at all. The slab is ground, burnished and sealed, and that is the floor.
Concrete
Encinitas · 2021
Brazilian cherry brought back without a drop of stain
The color range is in the wood. Sanded back to bare, everything masked, and finished clear.
Refinishing
Del Mar · 2021
A 1980s maple floor that was worth saving
Maple shows everything, which is why the edger work matters as much as the drum.
Refinishing
Why these and not more of them
There are 15 projects here and a hundred photographs in the gallery. A job earns a page here when there is enough of it photographed to show the work and enough to say about it to be worth your time. A good floor with two frames and nothing particular to explain stays in the gallery, where it belongs.
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