In addition to wrapping your cold-air return grill, you can make door trim and other projects that make use of factory-finished hardwood scraps. There’s also nothing stopping you from planing off that factory finish and using your leftover flooring as raw wood.
These candlestick holders are quick and easy ways to start. In this case, I began with two pieces of red oak from my own flooring project and a piece of darker-coloured jatoba leftover from a neighbour’s flooring job.
