How To Stain Paper Bag Floors

Repeat until you have covered the floor but don t have any overlapping stones on the floor.

How to stain paper bag floors.

Make sure to smooth out any air bubbles. Once the paper bags are completely dry you can move on to staining them. For a mottled look like bryson city outdoors crumple up each piece. Do not polyurethane the paper it turns the paper crispy and translucent and you don t want that.

Notice the texture the crumpling gives the stones once again. Paper bag flooring step 3. Less than 100 to do a normal sized dining room floor. Place your paper where you want it on the floor and paint over the top of it with the découpage mixture.

Floor care and also longevity. To not have to rip up the floor after killing my back because it looked cheap and stupid. Dip the foam pad into the polyurethane blot out the unwanted and also apply it with similar motions. Brown paper bag floors stained to look like stained concrete.

Once dry give it a coat of polyurethane. Brown paper bags you know the stuff. Cut the strips of paper. To offer your paper bag floor a show room ready look sand the surface after the very first and prior to the last coat.

I chose a plank width of 5. Dip each piece into the glue mixture until fully saturated and then lay into place on the floor. I chose to use a straight edge across the full length of the paper roll 36. You can use a piece of wood for a template and place a cutting board underneath.

If you notice gaps just add a small piece of kraft paper on top to cover the entire floor. Tear or cut depending on what look you are going for the paper into large pieces. 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. If any pieces start to come up just wet underneath them with the glue mixture then brush over top like you did before.

Paper bag flooring wood plank style see below or paper bag flooring slate style click here.