Using laminate flooring to make panels for furniture.
Mad idea?
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It can work quite well. I made a table top from laminate flooring and a small set of shelves to go in a cupboard. It's usually just thin, very stiff, sheets of MDF in most cases. The surface is very hardwearing, tougher than MFC I would say.
thetyreman
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I don't see why not as long as the 'wood' side is on the outside, it should be more stable than solid wood panels.
TheTiddles
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You wouldn’t be the first!
TheUnicorn
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I've only seen it used on benches as a hardwearing easily replaced top, but I don't see why not, nicer than a plastic veneer on chipboard
MARK.B.
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A good friend of mine who sadly died from a heart attack aged just 53 was mad as a hatter in a friendly eccentric sort of way 
, and even though he was by no means poor he just could not resist a bargain so when he was offered two full pallet load's of Oak effect laminate cheap as it was closing down stock , he had it delivered and put into his garage . Nothing unusual there i hear you thinking to yourself and you would be right but when i went to visit him about four months later he had gone crazy with the stuff it was everywhere and i do mean every where ,every floor including conservatory/workshop/garage , all rooms upstairs and down even the under stairs cupboard . He didn't stop there though as scattered around the various rooms were items of furniture ranging from table's of every size and shape to a chest of drawers and vanity table . He was absolutely tickled pink with his labour's His wonderful wife less so . To be fair some of the stuff was not half bad at all, it was just the the mind numbing expanse of it ( Think Oak furniture land on Steroids ) .
p.s. just looked at the time and typing these few words has taken me almost two hour's , happy to say that most of it was spent going over some of the crazy stuff we did
, and even though he was by no means poor he just could not resist a bargain so when he was offered two full pallet load's of Oak effect laminate cheap as it was closing down stock , he had it delivered and put into his garage . Nothing unusual there i hear you thinking to yourself and you would be right but when i went to visit him about four months later he had gone crazy with the stuff it was everywhere and i do mean every where ,every floor including conservatory/workshop/garage , all rooms upstairs and down even the under stairs cupboard . He didn't stop there though as scattered around the various rooms were items of furniture ranging from table's of every size and shape to a chest of drawers and vanity table . He was absolutely tickled pink with his labour's His wonderful wife less so . To be fair some of the stuff was not half bad at all, it was just the the mind numbing expanse of it ( Think Oak furniture land on Steroids ) .p.s. just looked at the time and typing these few words has taken me almost two hour's , happy to say that most of it was spent going over some of the crazy stuff we did
