painted floors

Liberating a Painted Floor

We view painted floors as a canvas that can be embellished or changed as needed. Here are some examples of cool floor patterns you can paint on top of a painted floor, to shift the look or disguise damage or wear.

DIY Floor Stencils Transform Banged-Up As-Is Floors

We love this inspired DIY featured Remodalista in recently: rough-hewn banged-up floors embellished with dramatic stencils spotted in the showroom of Chairloom in Philadelphia. The how-to cuts down unnecessary steps and make the most of the floor’s as-is beauty.

gene davis’ fab striped street

In 1972, artist Gene Davis painted his 414-ft-long painting “Franklin’s Footpath”on the street in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. So beautiful. Imagine if all more streets were painted in glorious stripe… via Clauda Bruno Related posts: why not paint the sidewalk (or any outdoor floor?) how a little colored paint can transform neighborhoods the…

solution: stenciled painted floors

When we chose plywood floors for the Laboratory, the idea was that we could paint them as needed. They’d start out an oyster white…and then go who knows where as they became worn or our mood changed. So we’re always on the lookout for cool painted floor ideas, like this one from an old station…

richard woods’ fab colorful wood-pattern floors

When we stumbled on images of artist/designer Richard Woods‘ show D.I.Y at the Alan Cristea Gallery in London, we literally gasped. LOOK at those floors!. They turn out to be Woods’ trademark vibrantly-coloured and exaggerated wood-grain motif. …deceptively simple in form, these bold images are produced using traditional block-printing techniques and installed as parquetry (inlaying wood in geometric patterns)……

Dickebusch is a holiday home (renovated by Koskela) in the fishing village of Patonga, north of Sydney.

diy stenciled coir, jute, and cork rugs

The other day, we spotted natural fiber rugs on the floor of a Swedish farmhouse — they look like coir or jute — that seem to have been stenciled with a pattern. Brilliant, why didn’t we think of that?!!! The technique would allow you add simple geometric designs to inexpensive and durable rugs. It might even…

paola navone’s painted rugs

We love the simple white-on-concrete? stencils designer Paola Navone put in her Greek summer home. They act like rugs, and can be done on wood floors as well. We’ve seen this done before, but not quite so beautifully.

Rug and tile designs as painted floor (or wall) inspiration

We written before about “rugs” painted right on a wood floor. When we saw the actual rug in this picture, we thought: how great would THAT be painted on the floor. So now we’re looking at geometricly patterned rugs, as possible templates for our painted floors. Soon after, we stumbled on a picture in Reference…

Constantino Nivola tractor paint yellow floors

constantino nivola’s yellow tractor paint floor

To our minds, paint is about the easiest way to give something a new look without spending a lot of money. We have a special fondness for painted floors, since floors are a pain-in-the-neck and expensive to replace. We stumbled on this inspiring idea while leafing through Artists’ Handmade Houses: the sublime yellow floors Constantino…

the secret of white painted floors

We’ve always loved the white painted floors that are especially prominent on Scandinavian design blogs and magazines, like these from the home of Danish stylist Sidsel Zachariassen. We wondered what the secret is to making them both pristine and durable. We found the answer in a Dwell slideshow about the smart, frugal renovation of a…

pollock-esque paint-spattered floor

This picture on Wary Meyers’ site stopped us dead with desire. Writes Wary: “All kinds of awesomeness from Molly and Norman McGrath’s incredible 1978 book on interiors for kids, Children’s Spaces: 50 Architects and Designers Create Environments for the Young. Without a doubt the best book ever published about children’s design.” We see this fab paint-spattered…

a painted (floor) rug

Writing ‘the improvised life’, we discover that themes come in waves: one idea (or image) seems to attract another that takes the idea a step further, or gives it a different spin (may be it’s simply that our sights are honed…). It can happen with several themes at once. Lately, a big one has been…

dept of painted floors: apple green

Painting is a great solution for sprucing up wooden floors you don’t want to sink too much money into. We hadn’t realized that we always think of neutrals – white or gray or black – as the formula for a stylish painted floor… …until we saw apple green work so well! (Here’s a good how-to.)…

painted floors with a surprise

We love painted floors, especially white ones because they expand and brighten a space AND are a great inexpensive solution to dealing with not-great floors. We never thought of painting a little patch of colorfully painted boards to break up the expanse, as interior designer Annette Verkuyls did in her home in an early twentieth…