Doing Floors Brown Paper Bag

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.

Doing floors brown paper bag.

How to do brown bag flooring on top of concrete. Improve it by removing any fraying obsolete carpeting heap and also changing it with simple craft paper. Covering concrete with brown bag flooring adds a touch of creativity to a plain room. Paper bag flooring application.

A teen might like a floor covered in magazine pages and a nursery would be adorable with colorful storybook pages. Concrete floors even when painted give a room a cold. Paper bag floors is your old flooring carpeted in style or in dust grime and various other antiques of time. 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 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. Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write. Prep your floors by pulling up the carpet removing all staples and sanding everything until it s smooth. As a result the floor was a mismatch of concrete outdoor carpeting and various levels.

You can stain the bags for a variety in colors or use virtually any material you desire. 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. Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. Brett decided to try a paper bag floor in the bathroom last winter to see how it would turn out.

Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.