Diy Brown Paper Bag Floor

Paper bag flooring application.

Diy brown paper bag floor.

I had never seen anything like it before. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. After googling cheap flooring late one night i found various posts about paper bag floors. Supplies needed for paper bag floors.

Glue water ratios some say 2 1 others are 3 1. It s held up to our foot and paw traffic and we love it. 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. Paper bag floor diy.

I am busy researching paper bag flooring for our camper that we are remodeling. 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. 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. Brown paper bags you know the stuff.

Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write. This is a tedious process but fun nonetheless and super cheap as far as flooring goes. Stay clear of extremely little pieces that could develop a chintzy pebbled look rather than a sophisticated faux marble appearance. Roll of brown kraft paper spray bottle for water glue.

If i missed anything be sure to leave me a comment and i ll add it. You can stain the bags for a variety in colors or use virtually any material you desire. To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. The ultimate diy flooring brown paper floor.

Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete. After the floor is prepped tear and also crumple 6 to 8 inch paper heaps from a roll of brown craft paper the material utilized in brownish paper lunch bags. This is a perfect low cost low weight alternative which i can do myself.

Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman. A teen might like a floor covered in magazine pages and a nursery would be adorable with colorful storybook pages.