The new floor combines hundreds of pieces of cut plywood in a geometric pattern. Gross says she spent only about $1 per square foot for the material. Her inspiration was a post by Mandi Gubler on her DIY blog, Vintage Revivals. Siren Spaces carpenter Carmen Draper had to buy a special saw to make all the required oddball 60-degree cuts. Draper punched up the pattern even more by adding contrast to adjacent segments. Some are left natural, while others are tinted with white paint, and the darker triangles had a strategic run-in with a blow torch. “When you take a blow torch to wood and lightly run it over the surface, the grain of the wood pops out like tiger stripes,” Gross says.
Each piece is face-nailed with small brass nails to the new three-quarters-inch subfloor. Each dotted nailhead delightfully enhances the floor pattern. Five layers of polyurethane provide a defensive top finish.
The new floor combines hundreds of pieces of cut plywood in a geometric pattern. Gross says she spent only about $1 per square foot for the material. Her inspiration was a post by Mandi Gubler on her DIY blog, Vintage Revivals. Siren Spaces carpenter Carmen Draper had to buy a special saw to make all the required oddball 60-degree cuts. Draper punched up the pattern even more by adding contrast to adjacent segments. Some are left natural, while others are tinted with white paint, and the darker triangles had a strategic run-in with a blow torch. “When you take a blow torch to wood and lightly run it over the surface, the grain of the wood pops out like tiger stripes,” Gross says. Each piece is face-nailed with small brass nails to the new three-quarters-inch subfloor. Each dotted nailhead delightfully enhances the floor pattern. Five layers of polyurethane provide a defensive top finish.
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