
The team at Monroe, N.C.-based The Sports Flooring Group normally likes to have at least three weeks to refinish and paint a 7,600-square-foot basketball court. But for the elaborate, 24-color gym floor at the McCrorey YMCA in Charlotte, N.C., they had just two, meaning long days and late nights. For a project this special, though, the company didn't mind the time crunch. "You just don't see that level of detail often," says The Sports Flooring Group Owner Brian Cockfield, who has seen his share of gym designs since founding the company 30 years ago. "It was really a lot of fun."
After sanding the 50-year-old gym floors, The Sports Flooring Group applied a purple-hued, paint-infused stain to the borders before adding two coats of sealer. To stay organized when the complex painting began, they printed posters of the design, each marked with which colors went where. When the painting was completed by Nakima and the crew,