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| Libbie |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 4:04:32 PM
When we were remodeling the 1870's farmhouse that I live in right now, I just could NOT decide on a kitchen floor that we could afford. I wanted wood - I could afford vinyl.
Sooooo....my husband laid a high-quality plywood (NOT chipboard) subfloor, and painted it with a super outdoor garage-floor-type paint. That was SEVEN years ago. I LOVE this floor. Here's a photo...
It is so neat that when it gets too scuffed, I can just re-paint. I can't say how much I love it. It's stress-free and cleans up beautifully, plus, you can choose your pattern and pick your colors exactly...
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
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| Miss Bee Haven |
Posted - Oct 18 2006 : 06:28:47 AM
Wow Libbie! Your floor is beautiful and this idea is a lifesaver for me. The floors in the old part of my farmhouse are also way out of square(a friend of ours who owns a tool rental business once told us: "It doesn't have to BE square, just give the ILLUSION of square!"). I have dogs, cats and a cockatoo, and had already ruled out carpeting. But I have spent hours and hours and more brain power than an old woman has to spare trying to decide what to do. You are a GENIUS!!! Grateful farmgirl hugs from Kentucky!!!!!
"If you think you've got it nailed down, then what's all that around it?" - 'Brother Dave' Gardner |
| BarefootGoatGirl |
Posted - Oct 18 2006 : 05:34:33 AM
Libby,
Your floor is awesome! Just last night I was thinking about how I would love to take the natty old carpet out of my sewing room (easier to sweep than vaccume)then paint and stencil the floor with a civil war era "carpet" pattern (my house is terrably off square so I cant do anything with a grid and that really limits the vinyl choices). My husband keeps saying it wont last, but now I can show him otherwise! Thanks...Maybe I'll start tearing up carpet today.
Trina
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Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. Proverbs 27:23 |
| Mumof3 |
Posted - Oct 17 2006 : 7:28:45 PM
Libbie- I love your floor. Your husband is very clever!! We are about to tear up the carpet in our family room and put 4x4 squares of plywood down in a checkerboard pattern (using the grain of the wood in different directions.) I'm happy to see that yours has held up well.
Karin |
| KarenP |
Posted - Oct 17 2006 : 6:24:45 PM
Libbie!
I love your floor!
I think I might do this thru my whole house!
We need to replace flooring all over the house.
Thanks for the great pic!
KarenP
"Purest Spring Water in the World" |
| Aunt Jenny |
Posted - Oct 17 2006 : 07:03:49 AM
I LOVE it! I had read somewhere about I think Amish farmhouses sometimes having painted plywood floors and couldn't picture it...can now..but I bet yours is prettier. I am sure they would just do one color. I think it is a wonderful idea!!
Thanks for posting about this!
Jenny in Utah
Inside me there is a skinny woman crying to get out...but I can usually shut her up with cookies
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| Libbie |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 9:28:41 PM
Thanks! I really DO love this floor. And I'm glad that bramble's experience in durability is the same as mine - it is such a good thing for a working farmhouse...or any other house, for that matter!
Diane - yep. The lines are the result of masking tape. I painted the whole floor the lighter color, then masked off horizontally first and painted those outlines, then vertically, then filled in the darker color. Does that make sense? bramble - can you explain it better?
XOXO, Libbie
"Nothing is worth more than this day." - Goethe |
| susan kate |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 9:24:59 PM
That looks awesome! This makes me want to rip out my old bedroom carpet and do this. I think it's probably good plywood underneath because of when the house was built. |
| bramble |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 8:45:14 PM
Libbie ...you and I must think alike! When we moved in there was vinyl from the 60's and 70's in the kitchen and bath. I am a pre 1900's kind of girl so we peeled and peeled down to the original spruce floors and painted like you did. My squares are on the diagonal to make the room look wider but it's just like yours black and white (I did a little aging with a feather and some sepia paint) but like yours...it endures! Work boots, kids and dogs have not hurt it. Yours still looks great and it is a nice solution to a usually expensive problem.
with a happy heart |
| jpbluesky |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 5:06:05 PM
Libbie - good choice - it will be forever beautiful and in style.
Peace |
| DaisyFarm |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 4:57:36 PM
Wow Libbie, who knew..that floor looks great, I love it! How did you get the nice even lines, masking tape?? Details, details!!
I REALLY want to redo our kitchen floor. It is white ceramic tile...looks great for the first five minutes after it's washed. With six people and two dogs, there are some days I have to wash it twice. Just too much maintenance. I really don't like it and am looking for alternatives. |
| Phils Ann |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 4:57:15 PM
Libbie, your floor is beautiful! I love that look, but if you'd put hardwood in, how ever could you have used paint on it? What a great idea.
Ann
There is a Redeemer. |
| primjillie |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 4:29:00 PM
My girlfriend did that in her gathering room and bedroom. Painted right over the subfloor, stenciled and splattered it, then polyed over it. It cleans up nicely and still looks good after several years, 6 kids, and now 2 grandkids. I am tempted to do that upstairs in my house, if my hubby doesn't start our wood floors pretty soon! |
| Alee |
Posted - Oct 16 2006 : 4:17:39 PM
This is kindof what we did at our cabin in the mountians. My dad did the work and did not do a pattern (yours looks great!) but that garage paint is great for floors! |
