We plan to paint or whitewash it there though hope you liked this plywood flooring tutorial.
Making plywood floor look like hardwood youtube.
Or maybe you d like to convert an attic space and don t quite have the budget this year for hardwood flooring.
Or that this floor started its life as plywood.
There are lots of other choices you could make on the plywood.
We are so happy with this flooring and our decisions.
Yes plywood is a soft wood and yes it will get a little beat up over the years.
It looks like legitimate wide plank hardwood flooring.
It looks so amazing it has a nice smooth texture and doesn t even look like plywood at all.
We like it so much that we plan to do this in our kitchen soon.
You don t want to have two of the same lengths beside each other.
The oil based poly brings out the color of the wood and the grain and makes the plywood look warmer.
Unroll the underlayment and staple it down all sides.
Detailed up close notice the sharpie lines show up perfectly.
Heather and wanted to try to make our plywood floor look a little nicer than just plywood so we decided to just burn it with a small propane torch.
Cy bought some 1 2 inch birch plywood from lowe s and had the guys in the lumber department cut the plywood into 6 inch strips.
I started with 3 different lengths 5 4 and 1.
I love the look of painted wood flooring so i was totally down for the idea.
When you have the floor covered you are ready to start planking.
A solution for situations like this is to sand the plywood and paint it to look like hardwood.
By doing this we have saved well over 1500 that hardwood flooring would have cost.
It s almost like putting on a mild stain.
Laminate can be pretty but the plywood floor we installed is every bit as pretty.
Perhaps you just removed your old carpeting in the hopes of finding vintage restorable hardwood only to reveal a plywood subfloor instead.
Staggered is more natural if you want it to look like a true hardwood floor.