Distressed Painted Hardwood Floors
How to make distressed wood floors step 1 sand and clean floors step 1 lightly sand.
Distressed painted hardwood floors. Fortunately painting a distressed floor can be a rewarding way to preserve the historical charm of the home and add to its aesthetic value. This smooths out surface imperfections cleans up the wood and prepares the surface to accept the paint better. Caulking with putty knife. Use this compelling floor to create an inviting ambiance in any room.
If your finished floor will be dark barn red for. Primer optional sand paper around 200 grit recommended vacuum. Whether you are distressing a new floor or an old one you need to give everything a light sanding prior to starting. We called it pickled but the floor guy first bleached the oak hardwood floors.
The end results of painting your distressed hardwood floor can vary depending on the age of the floor its type of wood and how many times it has been sanded and painted in the past. Apply two thin even coats of your latex deck paint base color. Tisbury is a distressed wide plank wood flooring with lots of character. He got down on his knees with a hand sander and went over the paint to lightly wear down the areas where the wood would have naturally weathered because it was raised a little higher or was in a natural traffic area.
This is the color that will show through the finish coat only in distressed areas. The truth is i live in a conservative area. See more ideas about painted floors painted wood floors flooring. Not that a painted floor is radical but not the most conventional however we did a painted floor one time about 20 years ago.
Well it wasn t exactly painted.