Hi, it’s Sarah Sherman Samuel here again from, Smitten Studio & A Sunny Afternoon, with another fun DIY. I wanted to spruce up the flooring in my new studio (dreaming I had the funds to install beautiful cement tile like these), and I realized the least expensive and biggest impact would come with painting the existing tile. I wanted the floors to have some personality but not compete with all the patterns I create for my A Sunny Afternoon products, so I came up with the floor design to compliment a couple of my favorite prints (like here and here).
Supplies needed for this are: 1. paint roller 2. 2″-3″ paint brush 3. floor paint, I used this one in white. 4. poster board 5. Xacto knife 6. 1″ foam brush
It took me two coats of paint, one Saturday morning, and a fantastic shoulder workout to fully cover the dark tile.To create the stencil I printed out a triangle that I made in Adobe Illustrator and then placed it on top of a piece of this poster board (you could probably just as easily draw a simple triangle). Holding the paper and poster board down with one hand I cut the triangle out with an Xacto knife, tracing over the printed triangle. To use the stencil I held it flat against the ground and dabbed a small foam brush to apply the paint. You only need a little bit of paint on the brush so I’d recommend blotting it on some scrap cardboard before bringing your brush to the floor. If you have too much paint it can seep under the stencil and give you a globby triangle.
The best part about this floor is there’s no measuring! I wanted it to look random so I just placed the stencil wherever I felt like it, making sure to tilt and turn it so that all he triangles didn’t end up facing the same way.
Once I had all the dark triangles down I mixed in a few metallic gold ones to give it a little more dimension. The gold paint I used is just craft paint so I am not banking on the fact that it will last forever, but it isn’t a high traffic area and even if it eventually gets scuffed up I wouldn’t mind. I would not recommend using that type of paint for this in large amounts or high traffic areas. If you want the best long term results, I would say stick with the floor paint.
And that’s it! These little triangles will definitely put an extra skip in my step while I’m at the office. Would you, or have any of you, tried painting a floor? xo Sarah
Credits // Author & Photography: Sarah Sherman Samuel
I love this random design, the triangles and the gold, so effective yet so simple.
Can you tell me what size the triangles are and how long the floor lasted.
Love the textures. I was also thinking to decorate my home like this after seeing this designs.
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I am adding this to my “have to do at our next house” list! What a great idea!
this is so super cute. i love the little pops of gold amongst the black & white.
I love this so much!!!
We painted my brother’s bedroom floor when we removed the carpet. We just went with a brown because he had so much else going on in the room, but this is awesome! I am definitely inspired!
Amaaaaazebaaaaaalls!! What an improvement! Love how it subtly compliments the other gold elements in the room <3 Good flow here, and a great focal point! x
This is a great idea. Probably not so back-breaking either…
Painted floors make me so nervous because I had a bad experience with a chippy basement one…but this is gorgeous!! 🙂 Love the little pattern!
AMAZING!
Rosie x | Every Word Handwritten
Would the floor paint work on concrete flooring (indoors)? I don’t want to deal with pealing paint every few years but I LOVE this idea!
Amazing floor! 😀
This looks amazing!
Lauren
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Love it Sarah – a nice and simple way to liven up a tile floor.
– Kevin
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Do you think this would work over peel & stick tile? It looks similar to mine, but I was afraid of the result with the seams…
This is a great idea for a floor! The bloggers over at Young House Love recently stenciled one of their floors and they went over it with a coat of some sort of sealer afterwards. Did you guys do that too?
Bailey
Lovely idea!!
Lulu xx
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What a fun idea! I love the way it looks on the white floor.
That is a great idea to use contact paper! I rent a small place and really wanted a blackboard wall, but couldn’t commit to paint. Instead I used blackboard contact sheets to cover our old (and gross colored) fridge. It was the perfect compromise!
such a cool idea! so pretty and unique
xxoo,
nikki
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