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Eventually, all the floors on the first level of our home will be tile. I know just what I want, but it's expensive. The economy is tough and we need to work on our house as money and time allows. We don't mind. Some of our temporary solutions are turning out to be pretty remarkable. The most amazing is our painted subfloors. Our sub floors are Advantech. It looks pretty much like the standard plywood floors, but it's a bit more durable and resistant to water. After Googling on the internet...

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How to Paint OSB | DoItYourself.com - Yep, this is the kind of subfloor we have in the bedroom - not plywood, which would look soooo much better, but OSB. There are several tricks involved in getting this floor to look good painted - but anything would be better than the nasty carpet that's in there now....

It's midnight and I have to get up at 6am for an appointment, but I still have a couple of hours of stuff I need to do. Hooray for vacation! It seems that my nature abhors a vacuum. The notion of "taking a month off" has in truth been more like "cramming every project possible…

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Have you ever seen a dull floor turned fabulous with just the right paint color? One of my favorite things to do is paint floors a whole new color, especially on a rainy day in April. For inspirati…

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mmmm, sounds like some kind of recipe for muffins, drop em on the floor, scoop em up… yumm Farmhouse Floor Recipe prime your plywood subfloor with Kilz primer or any good primer sand any sharp, scary sections with your little hand sander paint with base color (powell buff/dark beige) paint wood grain details like streaks … Continue Reading

We decided to use a dry-brush technique to paint the plywood floor for the time being. I leveled it the best I could and sanded it but seriously didn't worry about it too much. The whole point is we want it to look 'chippy' and old like it has always there. We used the same flat Antique White we used inside and under the cabinets, because it was there. I thinned it down with a little water and used a wash cloth to dab the excess water from the paintbrush before I lightly dry-brushed onto the...

Never thought I would paint plywood floors, but here we are. There was a spare bedroom in our house that was just sort of…ignored. It wasn’t finished, we didn’t need it, it was ni…

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The truth about our painted plywood floor - I spill all the details about the good, the bad, and the ugly after living with painted floors for seven months.

painted plywood floor- using a faux glaze