Everything you need to know about a painted subfloor that will last; this is one of the easiest ways to get beautiful flooring on a budget.
PAINTED FLOORS 8 rooms that homeowners and designers took a design risk, painted the floors – and were rewarded with a fresh look that couldn’t be achieved any other way! HAPPY PAINTING!
40+ Painted Floor Ideas That Will WOW You! Why spend more when you can have a unique upscale look for less? Painted flooring updates for ALL types of floor!
Can you paint floor tiles? Yes, but be sure to read this honest review of my painted tile floors and the reality that DIY isn't always the best option. I'm sharing why I would recommend
That's right, we're talking about painted floors. Find 21 of our most inspiring painted floor ideas, plus expert advice on how to make it last.
Here we go... Part one of our floor finishing series. Buckle up! It's going to be a messy ride. Ok, so I thought about doing everything in one big post, but I think breaking it down will be a little better. As many of you know we put 8 inch pine plank boards throughout a majority of the lower level of our farmhouse that I blogged about . Now is the hard part... we need to decide how we are going to finish them. Paint, wax, stain, a mixture of both, oil, and the list goes on. You guys it's
For maximum transformation on minimum budget, you can't beat paint. A new color on the walls can change the mood of a room, but it doesn't stop there: a fe
I think the MOST frequently asked question I get since laying our pine floors has been... WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO TO YOUR FLOORS? You can see the flooring we put in Guys it keeps me up at night. Do we paint? Do we stain? Do we do a combo of both? What color paint? What color stain? Gahhh. I blogged here some paint color options . & today I wanted to quick pop in with the only stain color that I have liked since starting the stain sampling process... Ok, don't mind my lack of pedicure, but here is
Revamp your hardwood floors the easy and inexpensive way with a little hardwood floor paint in one of these timeless colors.
Painted floors may seem daunting, but this laid-back DIY will inspire you to give it a try.
Ok, we just spent the entire weekend painting the floors. We thought this would be a quicker process, but we forgot about the part where we are literally playing tetris with all of our furniture as we paint. That means we are shoving all of the dining room furniture into the kitchen when we paint that room & then vice versa as we moved along. It added a lot of time & work to shuffle around all of the furniture as we we went along, but at this point we have the dining room done & we are almost done
Image 43 of 54 from gallery of Low Budget House / Le Atelier. Photograph by Lucia Tolstova
Floor is painted! It was a long road to get here but I am so happy with it. As promised, I am going to go over all the details. I also got the grasscloth up and I have an excellent video I found that shows you how to paste the walls, not the paper, which was so much easier and so much neater. Watch it here. Back to the floors... So some of you might know that back in the day I used to be a Decorative Painter. I painted floors, walls, gilded ceilings, faux marbled and grained, painted murals, you name it, for several years out of college. I was a little rusty, and my knees and back definitely have aged, but I was glad I could still crank one out. These floors were painted over plywood sub-flooring... remember this nightmare from a couple weeks ago? STEP 1: Prepping the surface of your floors is key... I scraped, sanded, wood puttied nail holes and seams, sanded some more and vacuumed like a madwoman until I had a surface I was happy with. You want to make sure there is no residue or oil that will repel paint, and since I had disintegrated carpet pad stuck to mine, I had lots of scraping and sanding to remove it. STEP 2: Prime and base coat your floors. I used California Paint's ALLFLOR for my paint. My paint store tinted the base coat to a cream tone, and I also had them tint two separate quarts to match Farrow & Ball "Red Earth" and "Parma Gray" for the stars and checkers. They told me I didn't need a primer since I had prepped my floor well, but I would recommend it just in case. I had a funky spot in the closet area where paint lifted. (Think I got lazy in there because I knew noon would see it.) My floors were well covered in two coats. Be sure to allow ample dry time between coats! STEP 3: Laying out the design This is the part that requires lots of math. I prefer to have my design fall evenly across the floor, so I need to determine how many squares will fit along each wall. Hopefully this picture explains what I mean. Notice how I have perfect half blue checkers along the edges, and the tips of the white squares touch the wall. On the perpendicular wall, the same is true but in reverse: I created my design in Photoshop first so I could play with colors: Planning out the layout will save you big headaches as opposed to forcing a particular sized square to fit your room. If you must have, lets say 18" squares and won't budge, you can do it by finding the exact center of the room and then drawing two cross lines that run through it. You would then start in the center and work out. Only problem is that you might end up with tiny pieces of squares along the edges. I prefer the above look so I try to find the size that will fit best. Take your time, grab a calculator or use one of these handy right triangle calculators - and grab a notebook to sketch out your floor. I am so sorry for what's about to follow. I tried my hardest to have this make sense, but I'm a do'er not a teacher. First you will need to revisit the Pythagorean Formula... OK. If you made it this far, we should hang out because you'd probably get me. Last part...if you have nooks, all you need to do is trace one of your squares and create a template out of poster board. You want to line this template up with existing squares you created with chalk lines. Trace it faintly with a pencil and continue moving it, lining it up and tracing into any nooks and crannies. Good lord, I hope this makes sense. I wish I could just come over and floor whisper to you. Once this part is done, time to tape... I screwed this part up big time because I had my kid's calling for their Uber rides. DO this when you have no distractions, and no drinking wine until your second coat of paint. You will need to mark off every square you DO NOT want to paint, I used a small piece of tape in the centers to do that. Next you will tape inside of the lines of all those squares. That's it. Use an Exact-o knife to trim your tape edges where they overlap. Also, use good quality tape- Frog Tape or Sensitive Surfaces by 3M. I had a roll of both so excuse the 2 colors here.... Now paint the squares that don't have tape int eh centers. Mine took two coats. Pull your tape carefully, I like to pull, angled all the way back from the painted edge, keeping my tape low towards the floor. There will be blood. I had lots of bleeding due to the texture of y plywood. Grab a small angled brush and touch up using the base color. Lastly, if you want to embellish further... I made an 8 point star stencil using an unused piece of old peel and stick wallpaper. Contact paper also works great. I sketched the design onto the paper and then cut it out with my Exact-o knife and a straight edge. Just keep the backing paper on the outside edges of your stencil, but remove it close to where you will be painting. This allows for you to lift and position the stencil easily. Find the center of your square and adjust your stencil. When its where you like, press the peeled sticky edges down. I used a foam roller lightly coated with paint. I rolled a coat on and used a hairdryer to speed drying. There was lots of bleeding, it I fixed it with touch up paint. Also , dry the back of your stencil with hair dryer each move, it keeps paint from spreading... And that's all she wrote. I hung the grasscloth shortly after, and have started bring pieces of furniture in. Originally I thought I would have my desk in the window, but it felt too close to the bed. Desk will be getting painted, and the wall behind it will be completely curtained to hide my closet/ storage/ sewing area... This will also hide the fact hat the closet is off center. As far as the day bed goes, I am now building something like this. Canopy has not been determined. Here are 2 options... Ignore the crappy photoshop. I also am using this rug... Stay tuned. My goal for next week is to build out the closet and start the daybed. Be sure to check out all the Week 4 ORC Updates here! See you next week...
Want to give your bathroom floor a refresh with a quick fix? Let me show you how to paint a tile floor to mimic stone.
From chevron parquets to patterned, painted planks, wood flooring doesn't have to be ordinary.
I decided to paint the subfloor at our bay house when the budget disappeared. The color is called sea spray. Next time I'm getting latex porch and floor pain…
If you want to paint a wood floor, this post will show you some different color options and the paint for wood floors we used and loved!
40+ Painted Floor Ideas That Will WOW You! Why spend more when you can have a unique upscale look for less? Painted flooring updates for ALL types of floor!
To our minds, paint is about the easiest way to give something a new look without spending a lot of money. We have a special fondness for painted floors, since floors are a pain-in-the-neck and expensive to replace. We stumbled on this inspiring idea while leafing through Artists' Handmade Houses: the sublime yellow floors Constantino Nivola painted in his Long Island home. Nivola was given the yellow tractor paint he used to coat the kitchen floor by the Mobil Oil Company, for whom he did a commission. When the sun hits this remarkable surface, the room is bathed in a honey glow.
Elevate your home with stunning painted floor ideas! Discover creative designs to revamp your space and express your unique style.
You guys have been patiently waiting for updates on a few rooms in our house & honestly, that's the reality of living in a fixer-upper. Nothing is ever complete ... We have so many projects started & can't complete them all at once. But I really wanted to give you guys an update on our mudroom. This is one area of our home I wanted to update for so long & I'm so excited to share the progress with you guys! Here is a little glimpse at our back hallway before. So dark & not our style at all: We
