Floors Updated With Paper Bags

I did paper bag floors throughout my old house loved it.

Floors updated with paper bags.

I will be giving a super brief tutorial. Paper bag floors is your old flooring carpeted in style or in dust grime and various other antiques of time. Gives the look of hardwood floors without all the cost. 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.

Faux wood paper bag floors. Surprisingly the realtor used the floors as a selling point and prospective buyers all eeewed and ahhhhed about. You wouldn t believe it but yes these floors are made from brown paper bags. Plus this cheap flooring tutorial from remodelaholic means you can stain your floors to your color preference.

Improve it by removing any fraying obsolete carpeting heap and also changing it with simple craft paper. This fascinating floor covering job has swept the blog writing world off of its feet with its abundant color and also marble textured results and also its economical. I did not create this technique you can find tons of references to it via a quick internet search. I can finally reveal my paper bag flooring.

I designed a paper bag floor with cogs and wheels in my gallery on the coast in oregon. One year later it is in fantastic shape. When you re finished installing us a wood stain to make it look totally polished. The long awaited moment is here.

A paper bag floor done right yields a tile like appearance. But if you want major details i highly suggest heading over to the ultimate brown paper flooring guide. Apr 22 2020 explore karen perry s board paper bag flooring followed by 229 people on pinterest. Lesley is a genius.

When going over old linoleum use poly instead of glue i did part of the floor each way and the area done with glue is having trouble in some areas. See more at knick of time and get the tutorial here. However never in my wildest dreams did i ever think the end result would look. Essentially lesley used a water and glue mixture to adhere torn pieces of the paper bags to her floor and then covered the finished product with sealant.

See more ideas about paper bag flooring flooring diy flooring. I used a diluted water based paint to create a warm wash on the paper then i used oil based stain on the cogs and wheels and sealed the whole thing with a water modified polyurethane sealer about 6 coats.