How It Started: Building the First Short Court

What started as a personal challenge to recreate my college alumni's home floor, exploded into a passion that I didn't realize I had for basketball. Beyond the affiliation to a team’s colors, logos, and arena, the court design is what sets the stage for every team! No two are alike and each one exists to set the stage for the home team to protect what’s theirs, or worse, the visiting team to take a piece of the hallowed ground.

The amazing amount of details and the vast amount of layouts that can be seen stretching back decades are just as much a piece of art as anything hanging in a museum (See Robert Indiana's Mecca floor design).

The growth from cutting every individual logo in painter’s tape by hand to learning how to precisely stain, make parquet floors, and even seal them in epoxy for protection has become a path of growth that I never imagined when I began making my very first personal Short Court.

We have grown to love not just the challenge of recreating a basketball court design on a smaller scale, but we enjoy even more the stories that are attached to each design that we get from customers. Recreating court designs from old photos of a floor that no longer exists has become a rewarding experience like no other. We don't just make replica basketball courts. We recreate memories.

With people reaching out across the US and abroad looking for courts to decorate their sports cave, office, or garage, we aim to bring the home court, home!