My name is Kari and I have carpet in the kitchen....Oh no, I said it. Now everyone knows! It looks like tile, but it's not!! I also have very plush gray/blue
extremely stained from the previous owner and maybe a little from my kids carpet in the dining room. NEVER NEVER NEVER put carpet in a dining room! With that being said I was at an impasse for what to do with the kitchen and dining room floor. In a world where money is no option and dollas' freely flow from my wallet
which would never happen because I am too frugal I would get wide-planked hand-scraped hardwood flooring! Eventually, I will (over many years) save up for my dream floor. Until then, I had to find another alternative.
Here are some pictures of my dream floor:
Until then I have found a few alternatives and I think these are cool too!!
Plywood flooring, I know plywood. I thought, "Are you kidding me?" Then I researched it and was very surprised!
I first came across the idea when I found
Quarry Orchard from another blog (yes, I skip from blog to blog like a monkey swinging from the vines!) They actually made a planked floor out of plywood. If you click their name it will take you to a tutorial about it!! Here are some of their pics:
Awesome, this cost them around $1 per sq foot! Then I was intrigued and decided to google plywood floor.
Check these out:
$1 per square foot isn't bad....but I can do better than that. All of these people just added plywood to their subfloors. My subfloor is plywood. Why would I add more plywood, if I could just use that?
Then I googled subfloor to see if anyone else had ever done this as an alternative. They had, check these out:
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Oooo Diagonals! |
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I like the border around the edge, definitely doing this for ours. It looks more finished. |
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Loving this! I'm thinking I like the colors and worn look for this floor! |
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I like the idea of striped too, because this would be much easier than checkerboard. |
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This could be an easy alternative to checkerboard, because you could just use really wide painters tape! |
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This is nice and I love the ceiling!! |
So what do you think? I am still looking for more ideas, but I am pretty sure I'm going with one of these!
But, which one????
Make your life beautiful!
-Kari
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