Interesting Article

[Howard Rosenberg]

Hi all - I saw something interesting this morning.

Once a month, one of Canada's "Big Three" daily newspapers, The Globe and Mail, includes a freebie general interest magazine called Elm Street.

Inside was an article about a high-end (expensive, I guess) cottage with the walls entirely finished with plywood.

As y'all know, I'm a huge fan of MDF and I thought it was an interesting idea.

It was executed well but it made me think:
(1) A WHOLE HOUSE covered in rotary cut plywood with a clear finish???
(2) some sheets' edges didn't appear to be flush to each other.

Instead of trying to make all these sheets look like one giant THING, couldn't they have spaced the sheets' edges up to 1" apart to create a design element, allowing them to "cheat" when it came to the inevitable out-of-square or warped sheet?
But that's just me.

The journalist simply called it Russian Plywood, but what do you expect from non-WWers?

Howard

[Tom Sweeney]

That had an addition that was sided with CDX plywood that was stained with a clear poly or finish of some type. I thought it would look OK if they had covered the seams & made it a board & batten look.