Doing Floors Brown Paper Bag

Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write.

Doing floors brown paper bag.

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. Improve it by removing any fraying obsolete carpeting heap and also changing it with simple craft paper. Brett decided to try a paper bag floor in the bathroom last winter to see how it would turn out. 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.

A teen might like a floor covered in magazine pages and a nursery would be adorable with colorful storybook pages. A brown paper bag floor is incredibly versatile. As a result the floor was a mismatch of concrete outdoor carpeting and various levels. Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden.

How to do brown bag flooring on top of concrete. Prep your floors by pulling up the carpet removing all staples and sanding everything until it s smooth. Concrete floors even when painted give a room a cold. Paper bag floors is your old flooring carpeted in style or in dust grime and various other antiques of time.

Covering concrete with brown bag flooring adds a touch of creativity to a plain room. 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. It worked so well that the guys decided to go with a paper floor throughout the entire store.

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.