I’m building a garage with a 400 square foot office/craft room above looking for inexpensive wood or other flooring ideas that are nice and diferent I have a slab of black granite to use as my desk top 10′ long the window trim will be doug fir and the cabinets will all be apple ply (maple) think out of the box!!!!!!!! I’m already broke
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Sand, stain and varnish your osb subfloor.
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Wait until you have the money to do it right. Do something half-baked, and you'll never be happy with it.
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I'm hoping that it's not the idea of the OSB finished floor that you're thinking of as half-baked. I've seen this done many times, not only as flooring, but also as wall paneling. Done right, it's a pretty stunning look. OSB looks great in a lot of colors you wouldn't normally consider ... dark forest green, a deep oxblood/mahogany, etc. I did the interior trim for an architect locally, in his own new house, and also laid his home office/studio floor in OSB which he finished naturally. Looked good, but I still prefer giving it a stain.
If this is a craft room too, you will be spilling dabs of paint and glue onto it.
One thing I see often (Don't ask me to say that I like it) in even some of these high end homes is in utilitie rooms, rear entries, and even a couple kitchens, is a painted floor with dribbles and spatters of various colour paints all over it, like the dog, cat, and bird helped paint it. Other messes disappear into it and it can look OK depending on colours used. If you get sick of it, you can cover it with wood or tile later when the bucks come in.
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