This year, everyone is looking for ways to add to their home without breaking the bank. If you have wood floors, you’d be surprised at the options you have for updating them. Don’t think you lack options when it comes to refinishing your floors…here are some cool out of the box ideas for spicing up the area under your feet.
Dark Paint or Varnish on Floors
Want these beautiful dark work floors yourself? Here’s a tip from Remodelista that I liked:
“To achieve a noirish effect, consider painting your wood floors with high performance, marine-grade Hollandlac Paint from Fine Paints of Europe. For a super-shiny look, top with a marine-grade clear varnish. We like black for the floors and Espresso for the walls.”
Stencil on Floors
On DesignSponge, the owner of these smartly stenciled floors said she chose this project as a temporary fix before she has the time (and money!) to refinish her floors completely. I love the look, and it’s a smart temporary fix, or permanent one.
From Emmas Designblogg, yet another intricate painting and stenciling option:
I like this unique, DIY approach to floor refinishing. How about you?
**UPDATE**: One more look to add to the post….just stumbled across this lighter, less modern, and more minimal use of paint on floors via Country Living.
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great floor job,inspiring!!!!
Have tried painting an old pine kitchen floor, but a kitchen certainly has a lot of foot traffic…so the end result was scratching and the paint coming off of the floor. After reading the above tips I can clearly see that we probably skipped a step or two, like the marine varnish, or the marine grade paint. That is the trick!!! Great ideas here.