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How to do a brown paper floor
Brown paper flooring is all the range in the USA, and its slowly coming over to the UK. With so many different ways of doing it and colours to choose from it’s becoming very popular.
This is a method I have used in my own home, so I thought I’d write you a quick how to guide. I will also add the different ways you could make it work for your own home along the way.
First make sure you have a clean floor, if it’s a concrete surface you are starting off with, be sure to give it a good clean. If you are starting off with wooden floor boards I would advise you to sand them first. If you keep the saw dust from sanding, you can use this to fill the gaps in the floor boards. Mix the sawdust with PVA glue. Fill the gaps with this and then lightly sand the areas again once dry. The PVA, saw dust mixture will move with your floor boards and is less likely to crack than wood fillers. The reason behind this is to give you the flattest area possible and minimizing the lines from the floor boards underneath.
Now that your prep is done, the hardest part of this process you are ready to begin your brown paper floor.
I used normal parcel paper from my local pound land. But, and here is the exciting bit, you can use any colour paper you want. I’ve seen it done with book pages, newspapers, marvel magazines, multicoloured crepe paper and much more. The possible looks and designs are endless.
I went for the leathered look, which is the way I’m going to describe now, but with simple changes along the way you can really make the floor your own, cut the paper into squares for a tiled look, or into lines for a wooden flooring appearance.