Crumpled Brown Paper Floor

It has a finished look of worn leather.

Crumpled brown paper floor. Aug 8 2012 faux leather flooring out of crumpled paper bags. It is created by gluing torn crumpled pieces of brown paper in an overlapping pattern. Personal styles and colors are achieved with stain and patterns. Also featured in the november 2012 issue of wnc woman.

Paper bag flooring application. Follow your floor diagram and begin placing the brown paper bag pieces to one section of the wall gently smoothing out the pieces with your hand. The brown paper floor is a hard floor covering that you can do yourself. You won t believe how great it looks and how little it costs.

6 give the glue about five minutes to set. Brown paper flooring. A paper floor sounded crazy so i decided to try it out on the smallest area of my house the hallway. I was looking for an inexpensive alternative to carpeting or hardwood flooring.

Please use the pause button if the text is going too fast for you. Check out my floors in the may june 2012 issue of natural home and garden. It worked so well i kept expanding to the bedroom den and living room so i now no longer have any wall to wall carpet in my house. Stay clear of extremely little pieces that could develop a chintzy pebbled look rather than a sophisticated faux marble appearance.

Get the look of more expensive wood flooring by using brown paper to create a faux wood plank floor. Chris of freckle face girl credits the origin of her idea to a floor she saw at recyclart showing a floor in hawaii on which crumpled brown paper bags were pasted. After the floor is prepped tear and also crumple 6 to 8 inch paper heaps from a roll of brown craft paper the material utilized in brownish paper lunch bags. Aug 8 2012 faux leather flooring out of crumpled paper bags.

The floor is sealed using polyurethane. What is a brown paper floor.