How To Make A Countertop Out Of Hardwood Flooring

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 out of hardwood flooring.

However we have made a few countertops out of wood flooring instead with great results. 5 inches times 5 boards comes out to 25 inch depth for the countertop. Making a countertop was slightly more work but the total cost was only 11. Trim off the overhanging wood by cutting around the perimeter of the plywood with a circular saw.

24 inch cabinets and a 1 inch overhang. 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. Learn how to make a diy wood countertop. Find a large flat surface to lay your countertop out on.

This instructable will show you how i used these boards to create some beauti. 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. We used the floor of the sunroom until it was finished then we used the floor of the garage.

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. You can choose between using flooring reclaimed wood or wooden boards for your countertop depending upon the look and availability of the wood. Make beading to cover the edges of the countertop by ripping it from 1 inch lumber on a table saw. 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.

All boards are like this 2 x 4 s are actually 1 5 x 3 5 etc so when we cut them down by 1 4 inch on each side that equaled 1 2 inch per board which brought it down to 5 inches per board. Here s a peek at how they look so far they haven t been filled or sanded or stained or sealed so they re still very rough. Not being the kind of person to throw something out i saved the better of the boards.