Converse of object

• creak: The building is old, and the creaking floorboards badly need replacing.

• varnish: Varnished floorboards, built in wardrobe cupboard and under eaves storage.

• polish: It has polished wooden floorboards throughout except the kitchen which has quarry tiles.

• expose: ENTRANCE HALL: With stairs to first floor, exposed floorboards.

• reclaim: Topic: Reclaimed floorboards - what to do wit holes?

• strip: Most of the property has painted or stripped wooden floorboards.

Adjective modifier

• stripped: The property benefits from an upstairs bathroom, partial double glazing and also boasts fire place and stripped floorboards.

• creaky: Slowly she crept across the floor trying to miss the creaky floorboards.

• polished: The cottage has been imaginatively restored with exposed beams, washed timbers and polished floorboards.

• bare: They stood in the middle of the bare floorboards, sipping coffee from chunky pottery mugs.

• exposed: DINING ROOM 16'9 x 8'3 With exposed wooden floorboards, window to the rear, exposed beam to the ceiling and central heating radiator.

• wooden: Most of the property has painted or stripped wooden floorboards.

Modifies a noun

• nail: Sink all the floorboard nails below the surface with a punch.

Noun used with modifier

• pine: A slab foundation would normally be used where a solid floor is required instead of pine floorboards.

• oak: Some rooms have wide oak floorboards splashed with emulsion paint.

• wood: On the ground floor the heating pipes are set into screed under the solid wood floorboards.

• timber: The ground floor has exposed timber floorboards throughout whilst stairs and first floor are fully carpeted.

• passenger: The Deluxe Touring Package includes a high windshield, lower deflectors, saddlebags, passenger floorboards and a passenger backrest.

Preposition: in

• room: He could hear the city breathe, a breathing composed of the flexing of the floorboards in every room, all occupied.

Preposition: with

• rug: Painted beam ceiling, wide polished floorboards with rugs and fireplace with gas fire.