Painted Wide Plank Floors

So let s get into the topic of painted hardwood floors.

Painted wide plank floors. Plywood hardwoods concrete vinyl tile and more. Painted wide plank plywood floors little green notebook jenny was one of the first diy bloggers i saw do plywood flooring way back in 2013 and her painted wide plank floors using 8 inch planks of 15 32 sheathing plywood in her beautiful studio are still holding up well today. Thinner outer stripes are painted french press by benjamin moore. Not that a painted floor is radical but not the most conventional however we did a painted floor one time about 20 years ago.

Plank flooring can bring a lot of charm into a room but the cost can be prohibitive. Several years ago i was wracking my brain trying to figure out a way to replace our nasty carpet without spending a lot of money. These beautiful painted floors include ideas for every type of flooring. Well it wasn t exactly painted.

We called it pickled but the floor guy first bleached the oak hardwood floors. To get the weathered look of painted hardwood floors in the attic homeowners natalie and tim hamm painted inexpensive subflooring white and scraped gaps in. The majority of floors were constructed of wood planks from 8 to 18 wide because narrow boards were expensive to prepare in a pre industrial era and therefore reserved for the best rooms. But it wasn t just about aesthetics paint also helped protect the wide plank pine floors of the time.

The truth is i live in a conservative area. To help us uncover the hardwood floor color trends that reigned supreme in 2019 we spoke with 14. Moody blue painted floors. From decorative patterns some of which mimicked parquetry to monochromatic schemes painted wood floors were in widespread use in american homes by the late 1700s.

An inexpensive alternative to real plank flooring is to fake it with a faux wood paint technique on a plywood. Popular colors included white yellow red and green. The wide middle stripe is painted stonybrook by benjamin moore. Painting floors is a classic alternative to costly refreshing.

If you re a commitment phobic shopper choosing interior flooring can feel like a never ending process. However only a couple of months later the floors are flaking and the paint is coming off revealing the old colour again the previous paint was non washable which made keeping the floors clean nearly impossible the floors are wide plank pine by the way.