She Cuts Paper Bags And Sticks Them At The Floor, The End Result? I Must Do The Same!

October, 10 | Hacks of Life

It is lovely when you have your home looking beautiful. This is where redesigning comes in. The bad thing is that it can cost you a fortune to do it, especially when it is the floors to be redesigned. Generally, the floor of your house needs to be good looking because it is the most looked part of your house.

This is the reason why Malinda, a blogger of A Purposeful Path, had use a lot of creativity to redesign the big floor of her house. Apart from that, she was operating on a limited budget to get the floor renovated.

It’s amazing to find out that she used paper bags, outdated elbow grease and some glue to do her floor renovation. Her house had tile floors which looked dirty, but upon finishing renovating them, they looked superb. What really surprised me is that she used paper bags to renovate. I swear that I have never heard or seen something similar before!

The total amount of money she spent would not exceed some hundred dollars. You need to see the floor yourself!

Scroll below to see the procedure she employed in renovating her floor. Please SHARE this creative technique to all your friends on Facebook!

To prep her yucky floor, Malinda ripped up the carpet and pad, and carefully removed the tack strip and all the baseboards. Afterwards, she used some all-purpose floor patch to even everything out.

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Next, she prepared her glue solution (water-based Polyurethane) and started applying her brown paper, piece by piece. As a side-note, she used a “satin” finish for the most even-looking gloss and tone.

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Malinda made sure to start with the edges first, smoothing down each piece so that it lay flush to the floor.

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After about 10 hours, the initial paper layer was set. “With just the paper down, it almost looked like a wrapped cigar. It was actually very pretty!”

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She shared this bird’s-eye angle of the entire floor the next day. It seemed to be shaping up quite nicely!

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Next it was onto the stain. Malinda went with a rich “espresso” color, perfect for a lavish finish. She started working with a paint roller, then moved to a smaller brush for the nooks and crannies.

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Finally, she added around eight layers of Polyurethane, letting each coat dry before starting anew. This gave the floor an extra shiny glow and reinforced the sturdy paper foundation.

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But Malinda’s not the only DIY-er using this unique floor technique. Gwynne Gardner and her husband were also inspired by this growing DIY trend — converting their own guest room into a luxe space with gorgeous “faux-wooden” flooring.

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Rachel and Mike of “Lovely Crafty Home” also followed suited, papering their staircase to incredible results.

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Blogger Kim of “Moss is Awesome” completely transformed her bathroom using the very same technique. From Kim herself, “we’ve lived with [this DIY] for over a week with dogs, cat, little boys, guests, water, spills, etc. and it’s looking still perfect!”