<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Using plywood for flooring is a bad idea. The only way to make it worse, is to cut it into strips.<div>If you are determined to use sheet goods for flooring, </div><div>put down 5' x 10' sheets of OSB and paint it a beautiful color.<br><div apple-content-edited="true">Clarke Olsen<br><a href="http://clarkeolsendesign.com">clarkeolsendesign.com</a><br>373 route 203<br>Spencertown, NY 12165 <br>USA<br>518-392-4640<br>colsen@taconic.net<br><br><br><br></div><br><div><div>On Feb 20, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Benjamin Pratt wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>I'm leading a small team of students to do furniture and interior<br>design for a local internet cafe that is opening up. They came to us<br>because they have a tiny budget. My university gets grants to help<br>local businesses, and we work for cheap.<br>The existing floor mostly maple and oak, is in bad shape, with a lot<br>of holes and<br>other damage. There is also a 1" or so level change where there was a<br>wall. My two ideas so far are in the links below.The first could<br>possibly bridge the level change and would definitely cover the holes.<br> I was trying to find a floor I saw in another store that seemed to be<br>rough-sanded lumber, with no appearance of any finish at all. I<br>couldn't find it, but the second link is close.<br>Any comments on my ideas, or have any other recommendations?<br><br><br><a href="http://www.picklee.com/2012/12/12/farmhouse-wide-plank-floor-made-from-plywood-diy/">http://www.picklee.com/2012/12/12/farmhouse-wide-plank-floor-made-from-plywood-diy/</a><br><br>http://wormtracks.wordpress.com/2011/01/12/beautiful-wood-seen-at-anthropologie/<br><br><br>-- <br><br><br>b e n j a m i n p r a t t<br><br>professor art+design<br>the university of wisconsin stout<br><img name="OHQtGAG2RMmVBgFE9uJ1lVIdgj-h8ah6NVMI9L4OmBk%2CoL1ahhRbuqjBrf9CVJgeMfnYvEtlK6mKKCygNS6xZgY.jpeg" id="dae43ae8-8b78-4eec-8c6c-7e83969bac1a" height="434" width="650" apple-width="yes" apple-height="yes" src="cid:50A04B83-86A4-40A1-A3FA-B2628B59F232@lan">_______________________________________________<br>Greenbuilding mailing list<br>to Send a Message to the list, use the email address<br>Greenbuilding@bioenergylists.org<br><br>to UNSUBSCRIBE or Change your List Settings use the web page<br>http://lists.bioenergylists.org/mailman/listinfo/greenbuilding_lists.bioenergylists.org</div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>