Doing Floors Brown Paper Bag

Prepping the floors can be a pain in the butt but if you don t do it right then there s no point in doing the paper bag flooring at all because it won t look right.

Doing floors brown paper bag.

Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write. You can stain the bags for a variety in colors or use virtually any material you desire. 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. Concrete floors even when painted give a room a cold.

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. Paper bag flooring application. A brown paper bag floor is incredibly versatile. Improve it by removing any fraying obsolete carpeting heap and also changing it with simple craft paper.

It worked so well that the guys decided to go with a paper floor throughout the entire store. Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. 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. Prep your floors by pulling up the carpet removing all staples and sanding everything until it s smooth.

As a result the floor was a mismatch of concrete outdoor carpeting and various levels. Paper bag floors is your old flooring carpeted in style or in dust grime and various other antiques of time. Brett decided to try a paper bag floor in the bathroom last winter to see how it would turn out. Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.

How to do brown bag flooring on top of concrete.