Rustic Painted Plywood Floors

Learn all the pros and cons of plywood floors in this detailed post.

Rustic painted plywood floors.

I put my plywood floor down in the kitchen about 2 months ago. Brooke installed her plank plywood floor in a back room that functions as a sort of mudroom for her 3 large dogs. Ideas for painting a plywood subfloor. You can step it up a few notches and have rustic wood flooring for cheap using the method my husband and i just finished on our cabin.

The pros and cons of plywood floors. I am in the uk and i have just brought a house and found out that the floor i want to do has tiles on a bitch base attached to a concrete floor. Painted and stenciled plywood floor life in the big house. Paint your plywood subfloor as a temporary solution or embrace it as a low budget yet creative flooring.

In the living room we pulled up the old carpet removed staples painted the sub floor a dark color and put down the floor the same way it was done in the dining room. They ll need a thorough cleaning before doing so. Inexpensive rustic flooring for your cabin getaway doesn t have to mean a hard packed earthen floor reminiscent to the cabin floors of the early settlers. The width length and thickness of the plywood planks was the same and we cut sanded distressed stained and added 3 coats of polyurethane to the flooring in almost the same way.

The walls are an inexpensive tigerwood plywood. To keep painted floors looking pristine consider priming and painting them annually. We painted our oak hard floor with porch and floor paint in the master bedroom. White walls ceilings and floors create a clean backdrop for vintage inspired decor.

October 20 2016 at 12 19 am. The floor is painted strong white by farrow ball. Hi there great floor. I ve had my new diy plywood floors for a couple months now and they re not perfect.

If new flooring isn t in the budget don t panic. I have been thinking of doing this for some time. With the exception of some minuscule scratches seen only when the sun hits the floor just so and a couple of teeeny dings it s holding up well after nearly 2 years and yes the dogs go in there hence the teeny scratches. If i paint the whole floor with a waterproof paint then put my 3 1 cross beams down with the plywood flooring on top.

She laid the floor last august of 2016 and made it amazing by not just painting it but by stenciling it for a cement tile look that has me swooning. Paint plywood floors for projects where hardwood tile carpeting or other flooring options just won t do let a few simple coats of paint come to the rescue.