My Faux Hardwood Floor

I shared this process on my FB page but thought I should include it here.  When we finished stripping the tar paper from the floor on one half of the new shop, we then discovered the other room was a whole different ballgame.  We couldn't even get the carpet up (glue and more glue) and it was a thin carpet over linoleum.  So our solution was plywood.  However, I still wanted it to sort of blend with the old wood on the other half, so this is what we did.....  We first cut the 4 x 8 sheets in half making them 2 x 8.  I felt this would help add to the "plank" look, and I think it did!  Then a random stain.  Very random! I made sure to cover all the wood with stain but much of it was very thin and barely there.  After this process I followed up by using a stain pen to draw on random FAUX plank lines.  It worked!! I love it!  I then put on 2 layers of a semi-gloss polyurethane and it's great!!  Hope you get a chance to come into the shop this spring/summer and see it for yourself!

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