Diy Brown Paper Bag Floor

I was almost instantly convinced that this was what we needed to do on our basement concrete.

Diy brown paper bag floor.

To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. Glue water ratios some say 2 1 others are 3 1. I am busy researching paper bag flooring for our camper that we are remodeling. 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.

After googling cheap flooring late one night i found various posts about paper bag floors. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. My brown paper floors are by far my most viewed content at the top of the list for faqs and seen more on pinterest than anything else i ve done.

Roll of brown kraft paper spray bottle for water glue. Paper bag flooring application. The ultimate diy flooring brown paper floor. I am a little confused by all the information i am finding.

Paper bag floor diy. It s held up to our foot and paw traffic and we love it. Supplies needed for paper bag floors. I installed a floor made of brown paper and polyurethane in my boy s room last year read that post here and since then i have gotten a ton of questions about it the original tutorial post currently has 645 comments most of them questions that i have done my best to answer and keep up with.

This is a tedious process but fun nonetheless and super cheap as far as flooring goes. This is a perfect low cost low weight alternative which i can do myself. If i missed anything be sure to leave me a comment and i ll add it. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor.

A teen might like a floor covered in magazine pages and a nursery would be adorable with colorful storybook pages. After the floor is prepped tear and also crumple 6 to 8 inch paper heaps from a roll of brown craft paper the material utilized in brownish paper lunch bags. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete. I had never seen anything like it before.

Well here it is the post everyone has been waiting for me to write. Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.