Using Plywood for Finished Floors. Yes, We Really Did That! Part 3

[Edited to update: I was probably a bit tired when I went through these photos and wrote this up: this is actually the underlayment for the finished floors and that is why they are all the same size. We did take many boards out of this mix for our finished floor as we sorted through!]

Now we cut up enough plywood to play with!

The moment of truth: would enough of this plywood together look awful? Would it look like mixed-up plywood? Would it have those dreaded safari stripes?

These boards are all the same width here, unlike the ones you have seen in the last two posts. I can't remember why but perhaps we were looking for patterns. 

I remember how exciting this was to see flooring, any kind of flooring over the sub-floor. 

I also remember that my husband was starting to say that he was kinda getting used to those safari stripes. Yikes! You can see them in this photo: the wider open "grain" of the plywood is what could look very zebra-like if we weren't careful. 

Here is a daytime photo of a corner experiment. It sure was fun playing with this idea. 

If you are interested, look up how plywood is made, and the different ways they can slice it at the mill. Plywood is structurally stable just like engineered flooring, because of the layers that are glued together. And it did not need acclimating for weeks and weeks, because plywood is just going to stay put and not shrink up or expand. 

We were going to do it! A plywood floor. How crazy is that?