My wife would like wide plank painted flooring in our daughter’s rooms. What is a cost-effective way to do this?
Thanks for the advice, Larry
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HUH??? Why would anyone want to paint wide plank pine flooring???
I just spent months stripping the stuff off...oiy
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Greetings Dootbeem, as a first time poster Welcome to Breaktime.
The look of natural wood can't be beat as Andy showed in the previous post.
But if you just want to keep peace in the house maybe a light design stencil around the perimeter might put her paint directed mind at ease, and if you later wanted to do it right with a natural wood look it would be that much easier to accomplish.
Really what's needed here is a bit more info about the present state of the daughter's room.
Is there now just a plywood/osb subfloor in there and it is a newer house, or might in be an older building with wooden plank floors?
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Thanks for the replys. Right now the rooms are carpet over sub-flooring . My wife has seen pcitures of painted wood floors and likes the look. I don't want to put down a good floor and then cover it with paint. Thanks again for the advice. Larry
Just my opinion but, I think, painted floors can look nice. The upstairs of our 125 year-old house has painted floors (lots of coats). So, when we put on a small addition 12 years ago we also painted the new bedroom floor to match the rest of the second floor. We used 1x4 Southern yellow pine. Personally, I don't think I would go to the trouble and expense of using wide-plank flooring if you plan to paint it. We used oil-based porch and deck enamel. You can still get this paint but it's getting harder to find especially in the deep bases.
ChipTam
Hi Larry,
We ran out of money on our homebuilding project and had no finished floors. I painted the plywood subfloor and I'll be darned if it didn't come out pretty good. The bank signed off on it, and that was what I needed.
I used True Value brand Floor and Trim paint. I realize that it is an odd choice, but I tested a bunch of different types and nothing came out as nice as that. It is oil based. The key, however, was priming it first with regular Bin. I applied both the primer and the paint with a roller on an extension. It went fast.
It is now a couple years later and the floor is still painted in our loft and still looks pretty good. I can't quite bring myself to spend money on carpeting when it looks good the way it is. So, if I can make plywood look good, I'm sure that regular flooring would look great. I think you would need to lay down the flooring and then sand first then prime then paint.
Good luck!
Paula
Doo,
I remember a TOH episode - old, when Bob was still host. I think the floors were white pine. They did a large checkerboard effect, maybe 2 x 2. Light green and white, as I recall. Think they masked off the pattern...I thought the end result looked real cool. Smaller pattern would be better for smaller space.
Todd
Thanks again for the help. I've seen 24" plywood squares stained in a checker board pattern as well as a painted. They both looked good. The 1x4 pine boards may be cheaper than wide plank. I even thought about ripping a sheet of plywood into strips to get the effect of individual boards.Larry