Thread: Flooring opinions wanted

Nice. Its cheap, and if you put a billion coats of poly on it, it should hold up to abuse.

Originally Posted by zeroforhire

plywood ftw. Serious.

http://frugalfarmhousedesign.blogspo...ng-how-to.html

You need to give us some more info. Are you re-doing your house or a tree fort? That plywood flooring is fucking horrendous. Are there any other issues, such as the heights of various flooring which you are trying to tie into?

A lesson in staggering butt joints....

Originally Posted by wcf3

Anybody here ever seen or used polished concrete for a kitchen floor? Seems like it could make sense, but I've never seen it.

My friends did this. It turned out really, really nice. But I do think you need to have a serious sub-floor for it to work out well (I could be wrong).

We have a dark cherry floor with a wax costing on it in out kitchen. 8 years and it's worked out really well. Yes, the mastiff has left some scratches, but not as bad as I thought. The floor was in the house when we bought it, and I don't think I would've picked it myself due to cost, but it's been a really good floor. Even took a dropped full wine bottle that broke without a ton of damage. It butts up against the oak flooring that was original with the house and looks good.


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Originally Posted by iscariot

Kork is also softer to stand on, droped santuko knives don't leave gouges, and neither do the claws of my 100# shep/husky cross.

That's good to know. I figured dogs would tear it up.

Copper pennies. There is a lot about this online. Looks pretty sweet.

http://dizzymaiden.tumblr.com/post/2...ats-one-way-to

http://pinterest.com/sachakay/copper-pennies-projects/

Cork floors have come long way, a flooring rep keeps trying to talk me into it for my kitchen. In your situation I would try to stick with one material for the two areas, the idea of having a transition is good, but having 3 flooring materials in a small space might look way too chopped up. For those with cork, what size, model, etc have you used?

I dunno if this is the right app for it but if you got 30 yr old yellow shag carpets and no money painted plywood will look about 1000 times better

I seen it done in a country cabin where patterns were done in masking tape & stencil and then the whole thing given 2 coats of varathane and it looked pretty good and it was VERY cheap