Brown Paper Bag Flooring Over Concrete

The process is essentially decoupage with torn pieces of brown paper coated with diluted white glue laid on top of a.

Brown paper bag flooring over concrete.

Prepare the room by removing all the furniture rugs and other items. How to cover a floor in brown kraft paper to create a great leather looking surface. Roofing contractor parma roofing berea. Stay clear of extremely little pieces that could develop a chintzy pebbled look rather than a sophisticated faux marble appearance.

Paper bag flooring application. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. Our most viewed post and video by far is the brown kraft paper diy alternative to wood flooring tutorial. Sand the concrete floor with a floor sander using 180 grit sandpaper.

Open windows and doors to provide ventilation. Paper bag flooring diy on concrete subfloor tutorial. 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. Stain if you desire to change the color of the paper bags and not leave them neutral.

And after having this tutorial get published in cottages and bungalows magazine in april 2011 woot more readers and bloggers have tried it in their homes with great success. We did have to use a 50 50 glue mix for a better grip on the floor and we had a lot of problems with wrinkling a lot are still there but we gave it a week to set and a lot of them did go away. How to do brown bag flooring on top of concrete 1. Thanks for sharing photos of brown paper bag floor over concrete.

Have you heard of anyone doing the brown paper bag method. I am a newbie and your success is very much an inspiration for me. You got a really useful blog i have been here reading for about an hour. Brown builder paper works too.

To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. Above image right side after you have glued the paper bags down to the flooring and let it dry. Anonymous april 16 2015 at 5 53 am. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete.

Paper bag flooring who knew. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. Spritz the top of the paper with a shimmer mist like the. This will remove any old coating and rough the.

Beautiful very cheap easy to clean and durable.