How to lay a plywood floor! Follow this step by step tutorial to install a plywood floor of your own. Plywood floors are beautiful and cost effective.
DIY PLYWOOD FLOORS: I love my house. It's a classic New Orleans shotgun. Over 100 years old, it was made by craftsmen who really knew how to build things to last. There was an addition (back bedroom and bathroom) put on when the house was refurbished shortly before Hur…
The walls upstairs have been painted a light green, Sherwin Williams’ Opaline. And now Chad and Scott are putting down 4X4 sheets of pine plywood. This is going to be our floor for the time b…
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We sheath houses and structures with plywood and we construct subfloors and the backs of cabinets and furniture from plywood. Plywood is always the basic and hidden material. BUT...plywood can also share the stage. This has got to be the belle of the plywood ball. Based on the informative image above, these shelves look to be multi-ply and
We created these DIY Vintage Inspired Skinny Bench Plans so you could easily build this amazing narrow wood bench for yourself for only $7.00
Whitewashed parquet floors; sounds like it could work, right? Wrong! In a perfect world every DIY project I did would turn out just the way I wanted it to. In case, you may not have heard, this isn’t a perfect world. Sometimes what sounds like a good idea turns out to be just plain awful. I would say I most definitely learned that lesson with this project. I realized that I really do love the look of whitewashing, just not on parquet flooring. When this horrible idea occurred to me, our playroom floors looked a little something like this. Yuck! I was so excited to start working. I couldn’t wait to transform them into something beautiful. In all fairness, I should tell you, my husband was a bit skeptical from the very beginning and tried to talk me out of doing this. But once I get something in my mind, I am determined to make it happen. First, I rented a floor sander from Lowes to remove the current finish. Once the floor was sanded, I wiped off all the dust and started the white washing process. I thought it was looking pretty good at that point. Next, I applied several coats of water based poly to it. Finally, after days of working, it was complete. It wasn’t the worst looking floor in the world. (Although, I haven’t seen anything worse than this, I do believe that out there, somewhere, is a floor that looks worse than mine.) I just didn’t like it. The coloring was inconsistent across the entire area and looked bad. Plus the poly added a yellowing touch to it, that I was not a fan of. This idea might work for someone, it just didn’t work for me. So, for now it’s back to work. Stay tuned for a future post and see what happens with this floor. What are your most memorable project fail?
We were determined to create this DIY wood plank ceiling for less! We love all the warmth this wood plank ceiling added to this space!
Hey, friends! A couple days ago we moved into our new home, and WOW, it has been a really intense week. Words cannot describe. I'll save the long version of that story for another time and skip to the
The ultimate DIY guide on how to sand wooden floors yourself and achieve a professional finish! Step by Step guide with tips, tricks & budget breakdown
Throughout the home, the walls and floors feature the natural grain patterns of lacquered plywood. The Stokke Tripp Trapp chair in the dining room was Lizz’s when she was growing up in the 1980s while the two Steen Ostergaard chairs were a thrift store find, and Project Room designed the table.
The truth about our painted plywood floor - I spill all the details about the good, the bad, and the ugly after living with painted floors for seven months.
We took on the project to refinish the hardwood floors on the upper floors of our new home, The Turret. This is my essay on how we did it -- and the feeling of accomplishment we got after communing with our new home.
Clean up the moldy mess under the sink.