Checkerboard painted concrete basement floor in new craft room I'm building.
I'm building a craft room in our basement. I've painted the cement floor with a diagonal checkerboard pattern using floor paint and a dry brush technique. Using a hand-cut stencil 8 in. square, I drew a line along one long wall, the a parallel line along one short wall, then stenciled my first row of squares, making sure two corners of the square touched each of the lines for the first one, the the line and the tip of the previous square for the rest of the row. It is not an exacting method, but I was going for an aged, worn look. I dry brushed the paint on, leaving lighter areas to further create a time worn look. The open square I left in their natural concrete state.
Miriam: the paint I used is Ace Satin Floor. I had it left over from another project.
Ashley and Kris: No I did not seal it. Since I was going for a time worn look, I decided not to seal it. It may wear more over time, but that's okay with me. If it wears too much, I can simply brush a little more paint on. ...»
Betty Jo: I don't know why it wouldn't work on a screen porch. If it gets very heavy traffic, you might need to touch it up once in a while, but it would just take a few minutes to do that.
Thomas: Dry brushing is simply the technique of dipping just the tip of your paint brush in the paint, brushing most of it off on a board or paper, then painting on your surface with a mostly dry brush. It gives a more soft weathered look, like old fresco, rather than a hard tile look.
I will post a tutorial on my blog soon. Thanks again for all your nice comments!
I did check out your blog to make sure you hadn't posted progress there. I'm terrible about following blogs, that's why I like Hometalk. Easy to keep up with what's going on without taking so much time. I'm so far behind on my own home projects.