Decorate Your Floor With a Stenciled Damask Floorcloth
8 Materials
$45
1 Day
Easy
You can protect your floor with a decorative painted floorcloth like this stenciled damask floorcloth. It's easy enough to do in a day!
See the full tutorial at https://www.tracylynncrafts.com/stenciled-floorcloth-beautiful-damask.
Left over latex wall paint for base-coat
I have used the pre-primed canvas floorcloths in the past to help protect floors. Sometimes I only apply a coat of latex wall paint and sometimes I stencil them. Using leftover latex wall paint to base-coat floorcloths is a great way to use of that last little bit of paint left over in the can.
Plain base-coat floorcloth
For this one, I initially only painted a base-coat of wall paint on my floorcloth but decided I wanted to take it to the next step and stencil it to make it vibrant!
Center stencil on floorcloth and tape
After searching through stencil designs, I found this amazing damask stencil to use on the floorcloth! After marking the centers on each side of the floorcloth, tape the stencil to the floorcloth to secure it.
Using a stencil brush and acrylic paint, start stenciling using a pouncing motion.
Using a stencil brush and acrylic paint, star
Using a dry brush and a pouncing motion results in nice crisp edges in the stenciling! Here is a close-up of the stenciling to show how crisp stenciling can be when you use the right technique.
Two coats of white on dark is vibrant!
A single coat of white on such a dark blue, while pretty, wasn't as vibrant as I wanted so I did a second coat of white. The picture above shows how much brighter the white is by adding a second coat.
Finished stenciled damask floorcloth
After re-positioning and more stenciling, I ended up with this amazing decorative floor covering!
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This is such a great idea! I 66wasn't aware until I began decorating our new home how expensive rugs are! So I'm always interested in alternatives to throw rugs! It's beautiful! Thank you for sharing!
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It’s Beautiful! Thank you for sharing! Great idea!
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I love the stencil you chose! Where did you find it and do you know it's name?
Can you use stray paint instead for the stenciling?
I must be missing something...what is this used for?