She's (still) Crafty
Law School (notice the capital letters?) is insane. It's good, it's challenging, but knitting time has been seriously curtailed. If I get a row done, it's a very, very good week.
So instead, I sneaked in this project:
I had the little deviants (er, darling children) rip out the old peel & stick:
and then tear up a bunch of paper bags from our local grocery stores:
Didn't count, but I'd guess we used ~30 bags.
At first I painted front and back of each paper sections, but when Z started to 'help':
I made it easier on us both by crumpling the sections of bag and dipping them in the watered-down glue. Much faster and had more texture, so I was happy.
Note: My floor had a combination of what appeared to be self-leveling compound and plywood underlayment, but I didn't worry about it and just papered right over it.
I let that dry for a day and a half, then I stained it with some cheesecloth and a tube of Minwax Express Color in mahogany.
[I was cheap, er, frugal and only bought one tube ($6.50) b/c our bathroom's not that big (abt 55 sq ft). Right now there's just the teensiest bit of stain left in the tube. If I were going to do it again, I'd buy a can of stain and hold on it for touch ups.]
Then I polyurethaned it many, many times.
When you're sick of this floor, to the best of my knowledge you can just do a new underlayment and then whatever your new choice of top layer is.
Here's some tips & good images if you want to try it:
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/20 ... e/flooring
http://groceryshrink.com/2010/05/illust ... loors.html
http://www.anoregoncottage.com/2010/08/ ... loors.html (the video is quite helpful)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... s=287x5019
http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubb ... 80/gonew/1
I was lazy and didn't take out the fixtures (horrors!) but I figure as a temporary (2-5 year) treatment, I'm not gonna worry too much about it. If it gets holes, you can just patch with another piece of bag and polyurethane.
I really like it, esp. b/c technically it means we now have a wood floor in that room.
So instead, I sneaked in this project:
I had the little deviants (er, darling children) rip out the old peel & stick:
and then tear up a bunch of paper bags from our local grocery stores:
Didn't count, but I'd guess we used ~30 bags.
At first I painted front and back of each paper sections, but when Z started to 'help':
I made it easier on us both by crumpling the sections of bag and dipping them in the watered-down glue. Much faster and had more texture, so I was happy.
Note: My floor had a combination of what appeared to be self-leveling compound and plywood underlayment, but I didn't worry about it and just papered right over it.
I let that dry for a day and a half, then I stained it with some cheesecloth and a tube of Minwax Express Color in mahogany.
[I was cheap, er, frugal and only bought one tube ($6.50) b/c our bathroom's not that big (abt 55 sq ft). Right now there's just the teensiest bit of stain left in the tube. If I were going to do it again, I'd buy a can of stain and hold on it for touch ups.]
Then I polyurethaned it many, many times.
When you're sick of this floor, to the best of my knowledge you can just do a new underlayment and then whatever your new choice of top layer is.
Here's some tips & good images if you want to try it:
http://www.yankeemagazine.com/issues/20 ... e/flooring
http://groceryshrink.com/2010/05/illust ... loors.html
http://www.anoregoncottage.com/2010/08/ ... loors.html (the video is quite helpful)
http://www.democraticunderground.com/di ... s=287x5019
http://texasfishingforum.com/forums/ubb ... 80/gonew/1
I was lazy and didn't take out the fixtures (horrors!) but I figure as a temporary (2-5 year) treatment, I'm not gonna worry too much about it. If it gets holes, you can just patch with another piece of bag and polyurethane.
I really like it, esp. b/c technically it means we now have a wood floor in that room.
Labels: Home Life, Inspiration
posted by Cher at
12:24 PM
2 Comments:
Cool project! And I can't believe how big the kids are getting. Ack!
By
Melissa, at 3:37 PM
How totally awesome! You are amazing. BTW, when I started back to school (only two kids, no dogs but a full time job) I thought I'd have to give up lace making for the duration. The leader of our program - a very wise woman - said, "I don't think you'll survive this program without the lace." And she was right.
By
Baba Jeanne, at 9:16 PM
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