Picky Picky People

We love the way the floor in the office looks. It is beautiful; unless you look at the seams. We watched videos and read blogs on how to do the OSB flooring. Everyone said just sand and then fill in the seams with the saw dust. That's what we did. You could still see the blue along all the edges of the boards. We are not happy with that. I contacted the people we had watched and read and some of them responded. 1) Oh, we are just living with it; after a while you don't notice it anymore, 2) We put area rugs down and you don't see the edges, 3) We didn't have any paint on the edges, and 4) that's why we stained our floor so you wouldn't see the blue. Why did no one say these things in their 15 minutes of internet fame?

This is a totally unacceptable look in our house. How could anyone be happy with that. We also figured out that everyone else had left 1/4 inch gaps between their boards that they never talked about in their information. Two of the people had no idea how we got our boards flush against each other. We don't understand how you couldn't get them flush.

 So, off to the drawing board to decide what to do. We could cover the floor with another covering but we really like the wood.  We could stain but we love the natural wood color. The plan was to have a solid wood floor with no seams, can't do that so we decide to router in grout lines. We chalked a straight line and the used a board held in place with rock to keep our lines straight.

 The OSB sheets are 4x8 and we didn't like that look of just doing the seams; so we routered some more and made what look like 4x4 tiles of cork.

 Looks okay, not what we thought we would end up with, but that's okay it will still be unique and really pretty. You gotta go with the flow. I tend to obsess over things and Bill has to speak sternly to me that it will be just fine when it is finished.

 After routering and vacuuming  again; it was time to add the look of a grout line. I am painting each of the lines with a brown. It is the color of the Trophy Room walls; so there will be a visual going from one room to the next.  Grout lines look very nice.

 This is the size of brush I am using. Bill has done the math and it will take me about 6 hours to do the whole floor.

So, if you need me tomorrow, I will not be available.