I think I can solve the problem by saying that I love the way your floor looks and what type of screws do you use and then I could be done with eepot and move on with my project. We had been discussing doing this very thing in our vintage to cabin turned farmhouse do it yourself wood flooring home depot you Tuscumbia, AL. Oh my gosh! This post may include affiliate links Click here to read my Disclosure and Copyright or, for more information on how this website collects your data, click here to view my Privacy Policy. Perfect solution for DIY, for the budget, for atmosphere in the cabin and really just perfect all around! Another factor for failure has to do with no attention to what the parquet is glued to.

Great job! This is a terrific idea and you are very fortunate to have such a handy husband! Do you think this method would work for painted floors, as well as stained floors? I think the paint would wear more, but I would like the imperfection of it. You could paint with Milk paint. It absorbs fully into the raw wood and is almost impossible to remove.

You can also use milk paint mixed thinner as a coloured stain as well. Then you could seal with a poly coat or with hemp oil or tung oil. I love this! What an awesome idea. They turned out looking great. Your floors look amazing! I love how unconventional, yet beautiful they are! What a great idea! Thanks for sharing. Top it off with 3 coats of poly and it should withstand daily traffic. Hope this helps! I love these floors!!

Great floor DIY! I wanted darker, but my builder and the flooring people sort of manipulated me out of it. Great post! I did this in my kitchen and LOVE it! I linked this to my hardwood floors post too, well done! After laying the floors down and screwing them in, did you have to sand the surface to make sure the boards were even with one another? I absolutely love the look of your floors, and this is similar to what I really really want in there!

I have commented twice about questions concerning the fact that a simple butt joint between the boards is NOT a good idea as seasonal expansion and contraction of the wood will cause cracks to open up which will trap dirt. This is why wood flooring is made with a tongue and groove joint to accommodate for this movement.

You are doing your readers a disservice by not mentioning this. Many people may choose to proceed with your style of installation anyway as the savings is considerable, but they should be made aware of the drawbacks.

Very, VERY disturbing. Tongue and groove is still a butt joint. Some even space every row when using DIY plank or plywood. One last aesthetic pro detail is to not align every other plank end when staggering.

Thanks for posting my comment, Gina. Your tutorial gives an inexpensive option for flooring that many people will undoubtedly choose, even knowing the potential drawbacks, but they should be aware. Nothing wrong as long as full disclosure is made. I love how you handled this commenter. I think dirt is a part of owning this style of floor. For me that is what I love about it; dirt friendly!! I have an old dog, a new to me home that is older with no landscape.

Tearing out my carpet and laying this down will accommodate my situation. My loveable, old dog can track in all the dirt he can carry and I will no longer concern myself with it…. Do you have to stain the wood or can it be left natural color???

Can you do all the sanding, and varnishing of each board before you start nailing it down??? How much space did you leave between the boards? Do you have to put the wood inside for a period of time like you do with typical wood flooring before installation? I love your floors! I have wanted wood floors in my home forever and have searched for ideas on how to do it ourselves, and this is it!

Thank you. I was considering it as well, but then there is the time consuming venture of cutting each piece. Your idea is much more appealing. Thank you for sharing your ideas with us, what you do is appreciated! We have a bar in the basement and we are in the process of redoing it. But have you ever tried it on a basement floor?

Thanks for your advice, my husband and I just installed pine wood floors in our heaviest traveled room see if it holds up.

Also, thank you heaps for the suggestion to go to a sawmill! Howell crakersawmill. Same price as plank, and cheaper than the big box stores! Your blog is very helpful. I have a tiled floor where i would like to do this. I Am so doing this!!! Question- did you have a lot of issues with the boards not being straight and then throwing off the flow of the boards?

The lumber guy has me a bit freaked about that. I recently came across your blog and did this floor in an older house and it turned out awesome!

I also used Minwax polyurethane fast drying for floor in a clear satin and stressed the planks a little with different items. Everyone that sees this loves it!! Thank you for the blog!! Ohhh, I would love to see a picture of that!!! Thanks for your great ideas and for this awesome blog! But then I noticed something on this article. Please correct my math. I think he paid 3 or 4 dollars per stud. Any thoughts? Thanks so much! My husband and I spent I love this and my husband I are planning to do are whole house.

Did you leave any room between the boards and if so so, did you fill them? Thank you so much! Nope, no room at all, we put them as tight as we possibly could. No issues with contracting, either. Gina, what part of the country do you live in? Does that make a difference? Love your floors. I like the idea of your floor. I had considered a laminate floor because that is what I have in the rest of my house. Thanks for the idea. I loved this idea!! I did this in my kitchen and dining room and it looks amazing.

I polyurethaned my floor with high gloss and it looks fantastic. I am moving on to the den now, no more carpet and no more laminate.

Thanks for sharing your inspiring ideas! Hi Ginia, this just blows me away!!! I know you are probably so tired of questions on this subject, but is there any way you could post a pic of the entire room in one shot so I can get a better idea of how it looks with your furniture and other furnishings? You know how computer screens are and mine is small, so I thought a pic of the entire room or at least as much as you can fit in a frame would give me a better idea of how it looks as if I were there looking into the room.

Thank you so much for this incredible post. We suggest putting down a vapor barrier and then laying a plywood subfloor over it anchored down with screws into the concrete, then installing the wood floors on top of that. Did you have to do any sanding to give it a lighter look.

Jacobean stain is a darker stain and with one coat it is powerful dark. I just wiped it off as soon as I put it on. The light pine wood makes the stain a lot lighter than if a darker wood was used. I am getting ready to do this to our house. I know several people who have done this and it turned out great. One guy I know used 2 X 10 and all he did to the planks was sand them, seal them and then he put a satin finish on them.

Everybody have a great day and a better one tomorrow. I was looking to see if this was possible laat evening and ran across your blog. Aloha Gina, just came across your blog and loving it! The floors look great. I may do the same in the tiny house I am building on my two acres. The two things I may do differently is cut a simple tongue and groove joint as well as trying to use oil to seal the floors. We would be doing this directly On our concrete slab.

How can I do this word flooring on a slab? We suggest putting a plywood subfloor on top of the concrete, then screwing the flooring to that.

Do you think if you used a router table and cut tounge and groves Do It Yourself Wood Flooring Home Depot Gasket into the boards it would help prevent cupping? They are very beautiful and genius! I love your floors. They look great. I have been contemplating other floors for some time now, just how you said you did. So, I keep coming back to this idea.

I highly recommend them…no regrets!! Go for it! Hi there! Came in via Pinterest. I actually just finished my own floor of pine planks and was looking for stain colors that spoke to me. Lo and behold, I came across so many others doing similar things. Mostly with plywood, but like you, inexpensive pine. I must gloat, though. Yup, a win for me! One of the very common methods of addressing the cracks between the boards as they shrank and expanded was simple cotton cord.

Stained to match the floors and jammed down in between them. It gave and took as the flooring moved. No one died nor screamed in agony over crap in their floor cracks. Stone floors were filled in with sand. Tiny, skinny strips.

All that said, I do love the Jacobean stain and will probably use it myself. Nice job. Keep up the great work! I have learned how to refinish a floor on my own. It is a hard and quite expensive process, but the end result looks amazing!! I have this very napped carpet in my kitchen that I want to get rid of. I have used water based Poly on my furniture but I am going to assume that an oil based poly would be better for the kitchen. Building a new home next year and love the look! I do vacuum it regularly as well as sweeping to help catch any leftover bits.

What type of screws did you use to screw down the boards? We use 2 inch drywall screws. Such a wonderful job! Did you have to do anything to the sides of the wood? In other words how did you get them to fit so closely together without gaps? I love my pine floors, but they do not stand up to heavy pet nails.

Out dog is 90 lbs. We got tons. I love it. I just did windows, siding and the roof and now is the time for the inside. Wanted to start with my kitchen. Saw this on Pinterest and had to check it out! I have the rolled linoleum already and it has to go! Definitely will be doing this in my kitchen. Hope it can stand up to a lb German Shephard!!

We had been discussing doing this very thing in our vintage to cabin turned farmhouse in Tuscumbia, AL. It is a MESS, and we are doing so much of the work ourselves. Thank you again for your information!

I will be tearing down an old garage in the spring and by me I mean me. After reading this I will be redoing my cottagefloors with the pine from the wall after planing them. I love the look of your floor…. Loving it and am super impressed with you guys! Thanks so much in advance, Kristin. The harsher climates affect wood more dramatically so just trying to get an idea of what your climate is. Love the idea, I think my husband will be totally opposed so I am doing a lot of research first….

I used to have pine furniture I know, totally different but I could scratch it by just pressing my finger nail into it. Great job! You are truly an inspiration! I want to start in the kitchen since that is my current and first project. He is concerned about water and traffic…we have a teenage daughter and a 10 year old still at home and 2 Siberian huskies, 2 small dogs all inside. I noticed you have 2 children and a cat…any dogs?

Water spills? How have they held up? Have you had to re-stain any? I would appreciate any help and advice. Thank you, Lisa. Floors look outstanding! Dumb question here though!

Did you start in the center and do the whole chalk line thing, or just start against a wall? My whole issue with re-doing floors is, I do not measure well, so I do not get the center chalk line thing. Thanks, kim. We started on one wall in the corner and worked our way across. I call it floor paneling. Your floors look great! Would you be willing to share your source of the wood?

Also how do you mop them? The flooring looks great. I have a question about the sub floor. Will it work to just lay a plywood floor over the tiles glue it down then proceed with the wood flooring on top; keep in mind I live in the middle east, where the temps get quite hot in the summer. The option we chose was a floating, engineered wood floor. They have beautiful options in many wood species and colors. We choose maple in a honey almond color. I love them!

They are easy to clean, and we have a Goldendoodle and they hold up perfectly to her nails. My understanding is it is not possible to put solid wood like Gina has over concrete.

They are beautiful! And can be resanded, refreshed over the years. And any marks with wear only add character over time. Ours are hand scraped so they already have the appearance of wear and uneven surface of wood el natural.

I was wondering about how this floor holds up to wet spills. It is so beautiful. We kinda love the rustic feel of the screw heads, but it certainly would look more finished. Do you have animals?? I have 6 dogs so I wonder about durability of the flooring with them. Definitely want to do this in my home! Your post is such an inspiration. I would love to do the same to my floors as our carpet is beyond help. I thought of using short screws just to get the same look but how would we attach the wood to the floor?

I would appreciate any ideas you might have. My wife and I just bought a mobile home and I am planning to do the flooring like this.

I was wonder how it is as far as being insulated. How did you get the stain to look so weathered in the pic. I love it!! Hello, Floor looks good. I love pine, which is what I will be using when doing my floors. It looked like the boards were just straight boards, no tongue and groove or half lap. Any problems with expanding and contacting? Thanks, Wyatt. Otherwise, maybe for strength, I should lay the boards perpendicular to the framing joists?

I noticed in the photo where Mr. I was told that it would not hold a nail. It will if you use ring shank nails! Love this idea!!! Would we need to put down another layer of sheeting or something before we screw in the wood? I am curious if I could do this on cement. Slab House 1st floor. How would it be kept in place and would I need to put an under laymen.

It is not tongue and groove is it? I could use cut off nail heads for looks. What do you think? Thank you for any info you can give. Beautiful job by the way. Dave, check out engineered wood flooring. Not a good idea to put solid wood like this directly over concrete. Too much moisture is in the concrete. We love your floors and are considering doing this in our home. Or is there a reason to do this after they are down. If you had a basement, then you could totally go that route, but doing it once installed is actually faster in the long run.

I have ripped out all the old carpet, put down linoleum, ripped that out, put down laminate and now I am going to do this and it will be forever!!! I am thinking about covering the screws with wood putty. Has anyone done it like that? I really love this. I have been looking at people who do it with plywood too. We are considering going this route for our bedroom. Do you glue them? Or just screw them down? For everyone asking about doing this on concrete…my childhood home is a basement house with all concrete floors.

My brother bought the house from my dad and his first project was replacing the hideous carpet in the living room with wood. He bought tongue and groove planks, pre-stained, and installed it right over the concrete.

He left a small gap all the way around the perimeter and topped that off with quarter-round to hide the gap. The end result is beautiful and by getting the materials at Lumbar Liquidators he ended up doing it for under a dollar per square foot. Hope this helps someone. Or what did you do for the gap? This would be great in our home.

We built a log home from scratch cutting the trees down, peeling the logs, etc. Not sure if you could glue the boards down or not. Any suggestions? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Just make sure to put a layer of protection between the concrete and plywood to avoid moisture problems. My apologies if these are repeat questions! Do you feel this affected the integrity of the floors in a negative or positive way?

If not, would you use or recommend the use of an adhesive next time? Do you recommend nails as an option? We only had a quarter of on inch around the edge,we have done many floors the same way because we like the method we use.

We did not use adhesive we used screws for the purpose if we needed to fix some kind of damage screws are easier to take out as for nails alot of people use nails but again we prefer screws.

I live in N. What mom-pop did your wood come from? I know where one lumber yard is in G. Just found your site and love the floor.

I live in east Texas. You may have already answered this question but I too live in Georgia and am wondering what local store you bought from at the low price of 75 cents per sq ft. I live in Tennessee but mine were supplied by Georgia Pine.

I love your floors!!! Quick question, I have ugly white tiles in my kitchen and living room, can I put the wood on top of the tile? I appreciate your advice and help. Wow, you are the first person I have found that talked about doing this. Thank you. I had to pay cash. I had to buy because I am extremely sensitive to some chemicals. First thing I had the carpets riped out. New ones are toxic. Old ones have toxic cleaning products. They had to be gone before I moved in.

I had to cover the floors cheap and fast so put down plastic sheeting and plywood. Ok for now. I was thinking I would just get what ever inexpensive "wood" flooring I could get and put that it.

But, I really want a gray stain color. Can't find any I like. I love how you did. I have one question. I think it would be easier for me to finish the planks before putting them down.

Do you both have any thoughts on this? Do you think gray floors is crazy? With other shades of gray stained wood trim? Mine is more for resale.

I am trying to not go with my quirky ideas. I will be checking out the rest of your blog as I have to do the entire place also. Love this idea and strongly considering it for my home. Did you use it in any bathrooms and if so how did it work? We used it in our half bath — no shower in there but it works great! I have a million and one questions about redoing the floors like this. Is it solid pine planks or pine plywood turned into planks?

Did you purchase these in plank form or did you have to rip them into planks before installing? When you sanded the planks, did you slightly round the top corner edges?

We have plywood subfloor and original oak hardwood floor. We also prefer wider planks. Two other question about the staining of your floors. Does the yellow pine color shine through?

I know pine can be tricky with staining. Can you see the natural wood on the edges of the planks in the cracks? Thanks in advance for your patience of reading this very long train of questions and answering them ;!

You could install it over other wood, but will have to trim doors, etc. You cannot see the edges on ours because I paid close attention while staining to make sure it was well covered. Hope this helps! The floor was great! Should i use thicker wood? I seal them by making sure the cracks are well covered with poly. Was the pine Kiln Dried? Do you have gaps between them now from shrinking and if so what size and what did you do to fill them in or did you not?

Did you condition the wood before staining it? If you had to do it over again would you change anything? Uhhhh not sure about kiln dried. I still do this flooring in rooms as we work through our house and really do nothing different. All these years later I still love them. I have been searching to find someone that installed plank floors that are not tongue and groove, just regular pine plank.

Thank You sooooo much!! I think I can solve the problem by saying that I love the way your floor looks and what type of screws do you use and then I could be done with it and move on with my project. Wow, such a cool idea… Way to think outside the box. One question, did you glue the planks down aswell?

I love this, and thanks for continuing to take the time to answer questions! Wide floor plans have always had that sturdy farmhouse feel, to me. It looks great very creative idea and what a super job you did. What type of poly sealer do you use? We want to do this in our home…. We have 3 dogs but I think doing this method will 1 save money 2 give the house a less formal feeling and 3 we can stain or whitewash it the color we want.

With so many of your readers saying they too have done this, most of my concerns have been answered. We just bought a house that was built in I would rather refinish the old wood floor but there are hundreds of screws. Is it possible to save this floor and my savings? I am so concerned with the screw holes. I love this!!!!!! I know this comment is coming years after your post but thank you!!!!

Hey there! As we have a foundation slab and we been pricing and discussing flooring so I hear ya on that…this would be awesome idea. Pine is a soft wood and it has held up well after many years of normal wear? Thanks in advance. Hey Amanda, Yes, they still look great after years of wear. There is a little more wear in high traffic areas, but they look better aged in my opinion.

I think spacers might make them bow a little over time. It took about three days — one to lay and stain — the second day in the morning we put on the first coat of poly, a few hours later did the second coat and the third before bed.

We let it dry about 24 hours before reloading the room. Beautiful Floors! I have done that on furniture before if the grain felt lifted, but we never really seem to have an issue with the floors for some reason. Good to keep in mind, though! So, um, I really like this and the kinda thinkin outta the box use of alternative materials…. Thanks mucho for replies. So Sowwy! How long did it take for the poly to dry? We let it dry 48 hours before walking on it — but in some rooms we had to strategically do it in 2 parts so we had tiny pathways to get to other areas.

Thank you for sharing. We will be trying this. Everyone was telling me Pine was to soft but I think the scuffs will add character. Any tips and suggestions for me. I love the floors and your site. I am thinking about doing this in my mobile home.

Did you have to level your subfloors? Mine have some dips and hills and I have only seen using asphalt shingles for leveling the subfloor. Do you have any other suggestions? If your cement floors are in good shape, have you considered painting them?

Thanks for stopping by! I would like to know how far apart, and which screws were used! I live these floors, so going to do mine! Hey Terry, We used 2 inch drywall screws. You might try a google search for more ideas. I really think the darker color is easier to maintain. My buttercup yellow linoleum is so hard to keep clean. Good choice. How would you go about getting the planks to stick to the Do It Yourself Wood Flooring floor without screws?

We have a concrete slab so screwes arent an option. Then you would do the wood process after. If the concrete floors are in good shape you can paint them and they look awesome!

I came for the flooring tutorial but stayed to weigh in on pronunciation of Jacobean. Bet hearing that makes it okay for me to comment years later, right? Love the floor ideas and enjoyed reading your take on the project. We did pine flooring about 15 years ago. And we preferred to oak parquet flooring. I thought it to be the daunting task of taking off the old floorboard.

We bought the same floorboards and started adding them to our kitchen and bedroom as well to the other rooms. We did all the work starting from taking off the old floorboard to add newer floorboard.

I just love the look. I would suggest them to others too. Thank You for being such wonderful. Did you use wood screws or drywall screws? Both of those are mentioned also. I am wanting to do this but need correct info. Also, did you have problems with warped boards? I bought a sample piece and it warped quite a bit-would that cause problems or end up getting straightened out when! LOVE this look! I hope that helps, good luck! Hi…love the floors, they look great. Question…what about installing on concrete floors?

Would love to do in my basement. How would you screw in? My husband suggests putting a vapor barrier on concrete, then a wood subfloor over it, then attach the flooring to that. You can use special screws to put the subfloor down. I hope that helps, good luck!! Sure, it has mild dents, but if I wanted it to look and act like hardwood I would have used hardwood. It still looks great, and I have no regrets. Used trim-head screws through the face of the boards to fasten down.

No gaps, no problems. Added third coat about a year later. No stain. I LOVE this!! I did this in one of my bathrooms about three years Do It Yourself Wood Flooring Home Depot Express ago and loved it! My husband thought I was crazy, because he is more into the refined look. But I loved the way this came out, and he did too after it was completed. No cupping at all. I did it a little differently though, sealed the pine first and then applied three coats of polyurethane outside to each board individually, after sanding.

I also varied the width of the boards to add interest. I love the screws showing, gives it more character. Signing up for your blog! So awesome Sarah!! These look great and I think I will try it myself. Thanks Rosa! We cut them because we liked the look better. I have a question how do you figure how many boards you will need for each room thanks beautiful floors. It depends on what size boards you go with. You need to measure your room and then lay it out.

There may be programs that can help you or ask your friendly associate where you are buying the wood from. We just estimated. HI again! I just posted on your flooring explanation page? Where has it been all my life!!!!!!!! I did finishing nails on my floors, in diagonally into the floor and boards next to each other. Look up the Jacobean era in English history. I think people are brainwashed with modern flooring. THINK, right?

What did people use before manufactured hardwood? I have that type of flooring in other rooms. My kitchen? With all the pine cracks, grain, blue bug kill, etc? Hi Gina, I love this idea and have plans to begin this project soon. Is it just for aesthetics or for functional purposes? Thank you, Lori. I just recently moved into a new home and ripped up carpet on the second floor to uncover southern pine beneath. I expected a smooth finish and was surprised and disappointed to see the tiger stripes and huge variety of colors coming from the wood.

Did you know this would happen when you stained your pine dark and does it look nice with furniture above it? I am tempted to resand them back and finish them in their natural color. Help, would love some insight! Wow, lucky you with finding the pine beneath your carpet! We used straight Jacobean and we love it!! Like I said we love ours but we like the farmhouse not perfect look. I did this in our house 10 years ago. I bet that is beautiful! Wow, this is a great post!

My wife and I want to make our kitchen look great again at the cheapest price possible. How much better do you think it would be to just do it ourselves versus having someone else do it?

Thanks so much! It is really a personal decision, you can save a ton of money doing it yourself but it is a rather big project. We do everything ourselves that we possibly can but as I said it is a personal choice.

Hi there, gotta a question for you. I plan to put them down on the subfloor using steel cut nails to give it a vintage look. Do I need to worry about putting a small space between planks say the width of a nail to account for humidity expansion and contraction? Any other advice when it comes to successfully installing this wood? The architectural style was characterized by cladded wood, inside and out. Jacobean drama was connected in style to Elizabethan drama best known through Shakespeare , but it was much darker, cynical, and filled with bloody tragedies.

I have to remove all my underlayment it is yucky particle board that has moisture damage so I will be down to the tongue and groove subfloor. I love the look of your floors and thank you for sharing your experience, and being willing to give feedback!

Oh no!! I think you are doing exactly what you need to do Cecilia! With it being pine which is soft, does the floor damage easily or does the poly- acrylic prevent that? Hi Ryan, We have had ours for years and have no damage.

The Poly does the trick! I put my home on the market and my house had a contract the same day-they are hardwood floors-engineered because of the use of plywood. Everyone loved them.. Thank you so much for posting your floors! I never would have thought of these otherwise.

Also you can buy a little at a time and do them. Hello all wondering how far apart did you put your screws? And has the wood shrunk at all in the time you have had it down? Also what is your weather like there? We placed a screw on each side of the plank, you can see in the pictures. Wish me luck! Thanks for the push. Hi Jacqueline, thanks so much we really love them too and no gaps, no cupping. Good luck with yours!! Hey, Gina. Painting a floor seems intriguing from a cosmetic appeal perspective, but how much protection does it provide from scratches from everyday use?

You guys rocked it. People get too hung up on the method and resale values. If you go to sell and a buyer hates it, they can find another house. These boards have character. Each and every one has a story to tell. When we build things from wood we put a part of ourselves in them. You get to walk on that every day. Take pride in your story.

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