Brown Paper Flooring On Concrete

To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid.

Brown paper flooring on concrete.

I lightly sanded between each coat. I love your floor. Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. We went with dark walnut.

We pulled up all the carpet in our house and needed a very inexpensive flooring. And after having this tutorial get published in cottages and bungalows magazine in april 2011 woot more readers and bloggers have tried it in their homes with great success. Paper bag flooring application. See more ideas about paper bag flooring flooring diy flooring.

Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. I installed a paper bag floor in my dining room butler pantry and hallway. After the floor is prepped tear and crumple 6 to 8 inch paper wads from a roll of brown craft paper the material used in brown paper lunch bags. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete.

Covering concrete with brown bag flooring adds a touch of creativity to a plain room. This is pictures without instructions. My brown paper floors are by far my most viewed content at the top of the list for faqs and seen more on pinterest than anything else i ve done. Our most viewed post and video by far is the brown kraft paper diy alternative to wood flooring tutorial.

Concrete floors even when painted give a room a cold uninviting feel. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. After the floor is prepped tear and also crumple 6 to 8 inch paper heaps from a roll of brown craft paper the material utilized in brownish paper lunch bags. Carpeting tile or wood flooring.

I installed a floor made of brown paper and polyurethane in my boy s room last year read that post here and since then i have gotten a ton of questions about it the original tutorial post currently has 645 comments most of them questions that i have done my best to answer and keep up with. I did the brown paper floor in both my daughters rooms and guest bathroom almost exactly the same way you did your living room. Stay clear of extremely little pieces that could develop a chintzy pebbled look rather than a sophisticated faux marble appearance. Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.

To use this video in a commercial player o. Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write.