Painted Floor - A 1964 Single-Wide Mobile Home Make-Over
Two Months in the making.Hand painted plywood sub-flooring.
After spending 15 hours pulling out carpet and padding, tack strips and padding staples, we discovered some incredible sub-flooring. We could not afford wood or laminate and I hate carpets, so we decided to paint the plywood.
After cleaning and sanding, I masked off a border.
Primed and painted the border with a latex flat paint
Masked off 4 inch strips for the wood planks and hand painted with flat black
Did the same process for the dividing lines, staggering them every 4th plank
I used gold enamel for the nail heads and painted a watered down shadow around each painted on nail head
I them stenciled a pattern and did a skinny border. After it dried a used a gold glaze on top of the stenciled area.
Once everything was dry, I masked on a the main design and then painted the entire border using a gloss black latex. Once the paint was dry, I pulled off the masking tape.
After the black paint had dried over night, I used a water based poly urethane to coat the entire surface. This was a gruely project unless you are used to doing 15 hours of squats at a gym everyday. At 53 years old - this actually just about killed me. We like to tell everybody, "Look what we found when we pulled up the old carpet"!
To see our read the entire "make-over" experience, you can follow the progress at www.thewoodssecretgarden.blogspot.com
To see our read the entire "make-over" experience, you can follow the progress at www.thewoodssecretgarden.blogspot.com
Floor has dried and and bookcases and desk in place.
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- Dianna Woodon Apr 1, 2020
Thanks Rachel - Have fun! Hope you will send photos of the project.
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Tonnaon May 2, 2020
Wow...beautiful! You are quite talented...an amazing job ma'am! Tonna Chavez Ott
- Dianna Woodon May 5, 2020
Thanks for stopping by Tonna and leaving such a sweet, encouraging message.
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All I can say is WOW!!!
we just spent over $3000 in our mobile home putting laminate wood planks over our sub plywood floor. Yours looks even better
I I love this, it is fantastic. Do you have any suggestions for painting a vinyl tile floor?
Here is a link to a blog that you may find helpful: https://www.viewalongtheway.com/2013/01/how-to-paint-vinyl-or-laminate-flooring/
I I love this, it is fantastic. Do you have any suggestions for painting a vinyl tile floor?
Here is a link to a blog that you may find helpful: https://www.viewalongtheway.com/2013/01/how-to-paint-vinyl-or-laminate-flooring/