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Faux Marble Flooring

by Teresa
(IC: homeowner)
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This is my faux marble floor, the room is 16 feet wide and 30 feet long. We are building our home and money gets tight sometimes, so I decided to paint our concrete basement floors.
Clean the floor completely and paint a basecoat, I used white paint because I wanted white marble
Then, I marked 2 foot marks along the walls to create a 2’ x 2’ grid, then I got a 12 foot 1” x 2” board and lined it up so I could make a midway mark on the floor. Then I used the board to draw the line so I had a pencil mark for my grid. – I did this very lightly so I would not see the pencil marks through my light grey.
Paint the whole floor white right over the tape.
Put black paint on the small paintbrush and pulling it towards you "roll it back and forth to make the line "squiggly". Make as many lines as you want.
Wait about 20 second and take the big 4: brush and brush across the lines to soften and blur them
get some white paint on your 2" brush and ...
...dab some white around where you have the black.
Soften and blur it again with the 4" brush
If you like it stop, if you want more, do more, if you want less, cover it with white..
Do each tile making sure you do not paint yourself into a corner!
Then let it dry for at least 4 hours and lift the tape. I had to use a knife to help it up in a few places.
Let dry overnight and apply polyurethane. For the floor, I let it dry for 3 days before I polyurethaned, then did 3 coats.
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Published October 23rd, 2016 10:47 AM
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Patricia ruffino on Feb 16, 2023
I LOVE THIS! A beautiful job!!
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You did such a beautiful job! I have tiled floors... will this plan work on that too?? And how durable is this finish? Again.... AMAZING JOB!!!
I Have heated cement floors though out my house and garage. would this be ok on them? In love with this.
scared ti ask ...how long did it take you?