Making A Countertop From Hardwood Flooring

How to make a diy wood countertop and how i gave it a tiny bit of aging too.

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. Because you are going to put a face on your countertop to make it look thicker which will add to the total width. However we have made a few countertops out of wood flooring instead with great results. We used the floor of the sunroom until it was finished then we used the floor of the garage.

Learn how to make a diy wood countertop. You can see the aging just a bit in this photo. Find a large flat surface to lay your countertop out on. The unfinished wood was actually a little hard to find adam got some maple from a place called s s wood floors in san antonio.

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. Our wood flooring countertops 2 years later post on how we made them. I used 3 4 flooring for my countertops so i made my plywood base 3 4 narrower why.

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. It really was not hard to do at all. For this project adam wanted unfinished solid hardwood but we used engineered and prefinished flooring leftover from our floor for the countertop in our laundry room. 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.

Cut a plywood base the shape of your countertop but subtract the thickness of your finish material from the desired final width. 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. How to make a countertop using wood flooring. Making a countertop was slightly more work but the total cost was only 11.