Doing Floors Brown Paper Bag

Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.

Doing floors brown paper bag.

A teen might like a floor covered in magazine pages and a nursery would be adorable with colorful storybook pages. Paper bag flooring application. It worked so well that the guys decided to go with a paper floor throughout the entire store. Paper bag floors is your old flooring carpeted in style or in dust grime and various other antiques of time.

As a result the floor was a mismatch of concrete outdoor carpeting and various levels. 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. Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write. A brown paper bag floor is incredibly versatile.

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. 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. 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. Brett decided to try a paper bag floor in the bathroom last winter to see how it would turn out.

How to do brown bag flooring on top of concrete. You can stain the bags for a variety in colors or use virtually any material you desire. Prep your floors by pulling up the carpet removing all staples and sanding everything until it s smooth. Improve it by removing any fraying obsolete carpeting heap and also changing it with simple craft paper.

Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden.