All my floors are wood and i.
Floors elmers glue and brown paper.
I would mix it until it was good enough to have a little pull when i would run my hand through.
Then brush the glue onto your paper pieces and glue down there really is no right or wrong way to lay down the pattern it will be random and overlapping that is part of the charm of this awesome diy floor.
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I ended up using my hands a lot.
You can read my full tutorial here and my one year later post here but you basically rip up paper crumple it glue it to your floor using a elmers glue and water mixture stain optional and cover in a stinkload sealer.
It almost looks like there is a layer of spilt milk on the floor.
And absorbed causes darker shades of brown.
1 2 inch x 36 yds.
I only use elmer s glue all for paper bag floor and i have successfully laid almost 1000 sq in my home.
I mixed elmers glue with water.
There are so many different ways you can do this different papers stains sealers they will all look different and.
Coating the underside of each piece with a 50 50 mix of water and elmer s white glue gwynne placed the larger stones strategically on the floorboards being careful that each piece lay smooth without overlapping any other.
When you have all of your paper cut and your floor prepped for application start here.
We used brown carptenters paper from home deopt elmers glue water mixture minwax stain oil based special walnut and waterbased polyurethane made by pro finisher 12 layers any help would be much appreciated.
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After the floor is prepped tear and crumple 6 to 8 inch paper wads from a roll of brown craft paper the material used in brown paper lunch bags.
The floor is brown paper only no acrylics or paint of any kind.
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On a concrete floor you will need to use straight polyurethane to glue the paper down be sure to use a water based poly.
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I installed a floor made of brown paper and polyurethane in my boy s room last year read that post here and since then i have gotten a ton of questions about it the original tutorial post currently has 645 comments most of them questions that i have done my best to answer and keep up with.
Paper bag flooring application.
On a wood floor the glue mixture of elmer s white glue and water 50 50 ratio is used.