A still-standing Nashville flooring legacy that traces back to 1901 — and an email address that still ends in @bellsouth.net. The story is worth telling properly.
In 1901, a young craftsman named Lawrence John Vrchota arrived in Nashville from Bohemia carrying an old-world trade: the patient, precise art of the hardwood floor. He brought European parquet and inlay technique to Middle Tennessee homes — and along the way, the spelling of the family name softened from Vrchota to Verchota.
The name changed. The standard never did. Four generations followed Lawrence onto the bench, and a fifth works it today — still finishing floors by hand, still cutting inlays one piece at a time, still answering the same phone number in Madison.
Lawrence John Vrchota opens a hardwood flooring shop, bringing Bohemian parquet and inlay craft to Nashville's growing homes.
The second generation keeps the shop running through hard years — laying heart-pine and oak floors that are still underfoot in Nashville today.
The family settles into the East Old Hickory Boulevard location — the same address, the same phone number customers reach now.
Dustless sanding, modern oil and water-based finishes and engineered systems join the workshop — without ever replacing the hand-cut inlay.
More than three-quarters of our crew has been here five years or more. The family still walks every job. 124 years on, the work is still done by hand.
The hands that quote your floor are the hands that lay it. Everyone on your job is on our payroll, and most have been for years.
Inlays, borders and patterns are still cut and fit by hand — the European technique Lawrence carried over, passed down unbroken.
Real acclimation, real sanding, real cure time. A floor we finish should outlast the people who walk on it — ours have for generations.
Call (615) 868-0202 and you reach a Verchota. No call center, no script — just the family that has done this since 1901.
Call the family shop in Madison for a free in-home estimate — and put 124 years of craft underfoot.
Showroom · Madison