Painted Plywood Plank Floors

A newly painted floor can add stylish panache and a sparkling new look to any room.

Painted plywood plank floors.

Planks squares and other shapes. Primer ensures the paint will adhere and also help seal down any loose plywood chips. We featured christine s home here a few years back and we still love it and love her painted plank floors. Hardwood flooring may cost you big be on the money saving track and use plywood to save a lot of money you would have spent on the wood flooring.

An inexpensive alternative to real plank flooring is to fake it with a faux wood paint technique on a plywood. To hide the plywood grain mix dilute floor leveling compound and spread it over the whole floor using a 6 inch drywall knife. How to paint a plywood floor. She laid her floors in a guest room nearly two years ago back in may 2015 using thin 4 5 mm plywood so that the floor level wouldn t be dramatically different than the.

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. Apr 23 2020 explore nina perez s board painted plywood floors on pinterest. This technique uses stains instead of paint to achieve a rustic lived in look. Plywood is an extremely strong solid surface and can be painted like any other.

See more ideas about painted plywood floors flooring diy flooring. Hardwood planks are expensive but you can achieve that natural woodsy. For a fraction of the cost of stained hardwood flooring try whitewashed plywood floors topped with three coats of polyurethane. Take the plywood sheet into planks next fit them together flat and adhere together using a durable adhesive like glue creating stunning wood floors.

Plank flooring can bring a lot of charm into a room but the cost can be prohibitive. Several years ago i was wracking my brain trying to figure out a way to replace our nasty carpet without spending a lot of money. Although you want the finished floor to resemble wood grain leaving the plywood grain exposed will belie the painted effect you create because the grain of some sheets runs perpendicular to the the painted grain.