Making A Countertop From Hardwood Flooring

You can choose between using flooring reclaimed wood or wooden boards for your countertop depending upon the look and availability of the wood.

Making a countertop from hardwood flooring.

You can see the aging just a bit in this photo. Using the dimensions of the countertop you plan to make lay out the wood with all pieces facing the same direction fitting it together like a puzzle so that you know where everything goes. However we have made a few countertops out of wood flooring instead with great results. I wanted it to have a bit since the floor also looked aged.

How to make a countertop using wood flooring. Because you are going to put a face on your countertop to make it look thicker which will add to the total width. Making a countertop was slightly more work but the total cost was only 11. Or do you have one already.

That was the price of the flooring and we had the rest of the materials on hand but if we didn t the total cost would have still only been about 60. Creating a countertop requires some basic home improvement skills such as accurate measuring sawing gluing and sanding. Find a large flat surface to lay your countertop out on. Learn how to make a diy wood countertop.

We used the floor of the sunroom until it was finished then we used the floor of the garage. Our wood flooring countertops 2 years later post on how we made them. Have you ever considered putting a wood countertop somewhere in your home. I used 3 4 flooring for my countertops so i made my plywood base 3 4 narrower why.

How to make a diy wood countertop and how i gave it a tiny bit of aging too. It really was not hard to do at all. Diy butcherblock style countertop made from red oak solid hardwood flooring part 1 on october 23 2018 by kristi 75 i made some serious progress on one of the biggest pantry projects yesterday my butcherblock style countertops that i made out of the same red oak solid hardwood flooring that i have on my floors throughout my house. Hardwood flooring boards are often milled from quality lumber that is more expensive if you buy if by the board foot so it makes sense to put boards.