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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsHow to give your old floor an incredible makeover.....
We've never seen a floor made out of this before. Across the nation, a very unique and very beautiful renovation technique is taking homes by storm. Although this special technique dates back thousands of years, more and more houses around the world have begun to bring it back into fashion.
In this particular home, cordwood was used to give their yucky concrete floor a beautiful, all-natural makeover. They started by sweeping and mopping, then planning out the arrangement of their wooden discs.
In this particular home, cordwood was used to give their yucky concrete floor a beautiful, all-natural makeover.
http://www.whydontyoutrythis.com/2015/06/how-to-use-wooden-discs-to-give-your-old-floor-an-incredible-makeover.html
End up with a gorgeous floor!
PoliticAverse
(26,366 posts)"Please SHARE if you love this gorgeous, all-natural floor!"
Polyurethane isn't exactly "all natural".
woodsprite
(11,915 posts)I would do this in a heartbeat, but I'd have to find a place in my home where it would work. Maybe the foyer? Wonder how it would hold up. We don't really use the front door much, so that might just work.
We had a barn-board textured laminate put down in the den a year ago. It hides dog side effects beautifully, meaning dings made my her slamming her bones on the floor just look like they are part of the texture. I can't say the hardwood stairs have held up as well to her bouncing her bones down the staircase. I hope to purchase another few boxes of the laminate flooring to continue out to the kitchen/laundry area, but something really awesome and eye-catching for the foyer would be great!
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Wounded Bear
(58,656 posts)I like it, but I think I would limit its use to small high traffic areas like the entry foyer and laundry room.
In large areas, the uneven pattern might be a bit disorienting to some.
skypilot
(8,854 posts)It seems to me that doing the floor in an entire room this way would create some challenges when picking out furniture, fabrics, throw pillows, curtains, etc. Looks as though it might clash with a lot of things. If I had a floor like this I'd lean towards making sure that everything else in the room was very simple. As someone said upthread, I'd probably limit this to a small area.
Little Star
(17,055 posts)csziggy
(34,136 posts)But instead of using grout in between the slices of wood, they got sawdust, mixed that with polyurethane and filled the spaces with that mixture. After the spaces were filled and the mixture set up, they used a floor sander to level everything off, applied more coats of urethane, sanding in between, until the floor was smooth and finished.
As someone with mobility problems in the past I worry about uneven floors being a trip hazard - and the way they installed the one in your link would almost certainly be uneven.