How to stencil concrete floors for a faux timber effect.
How to use chalk paint on concrete floors.
She tore out the old carpet covered the hardwoods with a wash of chalk paint distressed the floors and then coated them with polyurethane.
If your floor has been previously painted it s a good idea to abrade it first to ensure best adhesion of the paint.
You can paint concrete if it is totally dry and clean.
Use a thick roller and apply two coats let cure over night.
For all of the details on this chalk paint floor project head over to perfectly imperfect here.
No need for a top coat.
Thoroughly clean your floor using sugar soap ensuring all stains have been removed.
At the bottom of this post i will share many questions and answers asked about chalk painting floors.
Chalk paint your laminate floors linoleum floors even chalk paint your concrete floors.
The kind at big box stores or home made are not true chalk paint.
Using a little painter s tape to hold the stencil in place we applied the paint using a roller a paint brush by annie and also a flat head round brush all are shown in photo above personally on the concrete i liked the flat head round brush but if we were painting on linoleum or smooth tile i think i would have love the annie.
And finally i also love the treatment that rachel of vanhook co.
There are so many options when it comes to chalk painting your floors.
Where my shop is located its just another warehouse with ugly concrete floors.
1 gather your materials.
If you re painting onto raw concrete you may prime it with plaster primer or simply paint straight onto the clean surface with chalk paint.
Latex paint colour of your choice.
Webster chalk paint i am a stock list for this paint in australia more details can be found on their site floor sealant.
Annie sloan chalk paint has no chemicals no acrylic has no plaster of paris in it.
It i9s purely organic.