Step by Step Instructions To Paint Your Floors

Painting your floors saves you the expense and labor of refinishing as well as the displeasure when they unavoidably ended up still looking like your old flooring. However, you can paint your floors and have them turned out gorgeous. All it takes is a trip to the nearest hardware store that sells paint and tools for interior painting.

The trick is to keep it simple, picking a glossy paint that delivers a clean, sleek look. Painting your floors is a cool thing. You can replace the color anytime you feel like it, and you get to show your creativity.

Here are some benefits to painting your floors.

• Use stencils or painter’s tape to create stripes, motifs, geometric and checkerboard patterns, and designs.
• Set off spots of the room with borders or throw rugs.
• Anchor bright spaces and brighten up dark spaces.
• Brings vibrant, new life to old floors and is more affordable than refinishing or replacing.

Painting floors are not effortless, particularly if the wood already has a finish. If you would like the new paint to stick, there’s some preparation needed.

Below are instructions to paint your floors:

Floor Painting Plan
This is a job that needs advance planning. Of course, you’ll have to move all your furnishings out of the room. Also, you don’t want to sleep in your home until the fumes are gone.  You’ll also want dry weather for the paint to cure correctly before moving back in. Humid weather will make it stay wet.

Most folks with painted floors leave home for a week, and when they came back, their floors were dry enough to move back in. However, it was a few more weeks before the paint smell was gone.

Picking Your Paint
For best results, use an oil-based enamel or a standard oil-based floor and porch paint. They aren’t that eco-friendly, though, they’re the best when it comes to foot traffic. 

Regardless which paint you pick, wear a respirator while you’re painting. Also, while you’ll have the best results if you cover the doorways with plastic to keep out dust, the fumes are so intense you probably will need to open the windows and have the ceiling fan going the entire time. If you want to have a professional take on this task for you, contact a Rochester painting company.

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