How To Prepare Barn Wood For Flooring

A friend and i managed to find a beautiful barn door and so i took it home and it sat in my garage for quite some time.

How to prepare barn wood for flooring.

Barn wood reclaimed floors are visually striking. I bought some wood off of craigslist. I can find old barn wood wood from urban demolitions like gym flooring and even the scraps from local shops. If you were looking for just old wood some of those abandoned industrial buildings had stuff that would make barn framing look like match sticks.

You can easily transform. You can find old barns where you live and sometimes you can get the lumber for free from a farmer for just dismantling the old barn. Before i could turn the barn door into a table top i needed to clean the wood up. I love how pretty reclaimed wood is.

The instructable will describe how i went through the process of getting the wood ready to plane usin. In the kitchen you might front face an island with barn wood or perhaps diy a barn board backsplash. Reclaimed wood flooring is not only good for our environment but can be some of the most beautiful wood flooring available. I ve also made friends with a local shop that specializes in tearing down barns and selling the wood.

There are even a few shops cropping up that take the tree trunks from urban trees then make boards out of them. They look great as an accent wall in a bedroom or living room. Wait several hours or overnight for the grain filler to dry. The lower the grit the larger the.

Once the wood was dry from its cleaning i used a regular paint brush and sparingly applied the minwax finish. There are also internet suppliers of old barn wood that can be turned into wood flooring. Make sure not to use too much. How to prepare reclaimed wood.

Allow the grain filler to dry then sand it with 200 grit sandpaper. Sandpaper ranges in grit levels from 40 to 600 which refers to the size of the pebbles on the paper. Then the idea was born to use this as the top of my craft room work table. The trick to wood plank walls is to keep it simple.

And the good news is you don t have to pick through piles of splintery old lumber or pay exorbitant prices for the look of barn wood. The last step to clean and refinish your reclaimed wood is to properly seal the wood. However he pointed out there was an ample supply at one end of the chain and a pretty good demand at the other there was no transportation in between. Barn wood is often used in wide plank reclaimed floorboards because most barns were built with planks over 8 inches wide so they have a more natural traditional appeal than typical strip flooring.

I used minwax polycrylic water based protective finish in clear satin you guys this stuff is amazing. Use reclaimed barn boards on only one feature wall in a room to keep the look simple yet make a statement. The fellow said it was redwood from a barn. Whether you re creating a rustic interior or adding aged wood accents to a modern decorating scheme barn wood is a popular choice.