Transforming Our Living Room Floor With Marine Plywood: A DIY Guide

Do you love DIY? Me too. This time, it’s our living room floor. It’s due for a makeover! It’s the last major piece of the renovation puzzle. By the end of this week, we should have ourselves a clean, smooth, new floor covering beneath our feet. 

Let’s go over this. Rooms done to date are:

Bedroom – Ceiling, walls and floor.

Living room – Ceiling and walls.

Kitchen – Ceiling, walls, floor and plumbing.

Pantry – Ceiling, walls and floor.

Bathroom – Ceiling, walls, floor and plumbing.  

There’s a floor missing. The living room hasn’t got one! When we moved in, everything went into the living room. It became a storage space. As we moved through the home on our project and worked on various parts of it, the living room became the central area for everything that didn’t have a proper place to go. It was also the access point for all the building materials delivered to us. So we left that part of the floor, and its tatty, worn-out carpet, until last.  

As each room was completed, some of that excess gear disappeared into them. It was time to rip out the carpet and lay down some new stuff. Marine plywood. We’ve used it before, and it was fantastic. The kitchen floor was laid almost six months ago. The plan was to lay the living room with the same. A couple of slices with a saw and we have got a nice new set of new floorboards…       

…and a decent pile of sawdust for the compost heap.

Now we have to sand and paint them. Margo! Where are you, Margo? I’ll have more pics as the work progresses.

–Michael Forman (Author)