Diy Brown Paper Bag Floor

Paper bag floor diy.

Diy brown paper bag floor. Roll of brown kraft paper spray bottle for water glue. I am a little confused by all the information i am finding. Stay clear of extremely little pieces that could develop a chintzy pebbled look rather than a sophisticated faux marble appearance. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete.

After googling cheap flooring late one night i found various posts about paper bag floors. To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. A brown paper bag floor is incredibly versatile.

You can stain the bags for a variety in colors or use virtually any material you desire. 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. The ultimate diy flooring brown paper floor.

If i missed anything be sure to leave me a comment and i ll add it. I had never seen anything like it before. This is a tedious process but fun nonetheless and super cheap as far as flooring goes. Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write.

Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. Glue water ratios some say 2 1 others are 3 1. Supplies needed for paper bag floors. 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.

This is a perfect low cost low weight alternative which i can do myself. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. I was almost instantly convinced that this was what we needed to do on our basement concrete. Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.

It s held up to our foot and paw traffic and we love it. I am busy researching paper bag flooring for our camper that we are remodeling.