Paper Bag Floor Over Concrete

The paper comes in rolls typically 3 feet wide.

Paper bag floor over concrete. I designed a paper bag floor with cogs and wheels in my gallery on the coast in oregon. 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. I like your floor. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete.

One year later it is in fantastic shape. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. Covering concrete with brown bag flooring adds a touch of creativity to a plain room. When the polyurethane on the concrete is drying take time out to watch a movie and enlist helpers turn up the boob tube really loud as you tear the paper into about 9 12 pieces.

Building paper is a catchall term for single ply sheathing paper manufactured in various thicknesses. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. 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. For us the paper bag floor was about as durable as you might expect paper to be even with a lot of floor sealer on it.

To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. It looks bad to have them in the middle of the floor. Carpeting tile or wood flooring. Improve it by removing any fraying obsolete carpeting heap and also changing it with simple craft paper.

Anonymous april 16 2015 at 5 53 am. Hank fracas april 10 2015 at 11 53 pm. Building paper between layers of flooring. Concrete floors even when painted give a room a cold uninviting feel.

Thanks for sharing about brown paper bag floor over concrete. I used a diluted water based paint to create a warm wash on the paper then i used oil based stain on the cogs and wheels and sealed the whole thing with a water modified polyurethane sealer about 6 coats. Thanks for sharing photos of brown paper bag floor over concrete. Strait edges go along the wall.