What happens when carpet isn't an option and your hardwood flooring has been discontinued? Well, if you're Mandi Grubler, you head to the hardware store and come home with a few cans of paint. See how she schooled this concrete floor into submission.
Mandi is always willing to roll up her sleeves and test the DIY waters for the rest of us. This time around, she's painting the concrete floor in her daughter's room.
She walks us through the steps of prepping the concrete and cleaning and patching it in order to make it ready for some faux bois paint. The final look is adorable, and we can already imagine a cute rug and some kid-friendly furnishings to deck out the space. Make sure you check out all the details, as the final, polished look came at the very end from a sealer that may or may not have been on your DIY radar!
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Very cool.
I love this!
That is totally gorgeous.
What a fabulous idea! Though I must say kids+concrete would scare me. Avoid bunk beds perhaps.
Awesome!
I'm not really into the idea of concrete flooring in a child's room, but I'm REALLY into this idea for my garage floor! This is great to keep in mind for my next house!
Yeah, kids and concrete... i keep my kids off the sidewalks, too. sheesh.
I love this so hard. And so I clicked over to her blog and it is awesomeness. Mandi, you are my new DIY hero.
Check out what she did to the walls in this room next...
http://www.vintagerevivals.com/2012/07/stamped-tribal-triangle-chain-wall.html#more
Excellent!
Pretty cool!!
My experience with Mandi's blog was love at first sight - about 1 year ago. Everything this girl does is pure genius and this is no exception :)
Wow. Mandi is a talented lady. Love this.
Unique! Fun for a kids room. Throw a plush rug in the middle of the room and I'd live there too. ;)
I love this! And I love that it's a very graphic, stylized version of faux bois.
In addition to looking new and fresh, it looks like it would be very easy to keep clean.
This is very cool but, knowing how kids are so accident prone makes me wonder how child safe this would be?
I love this. Carpet is currently only in our bedrooms and its NASTY. This would be so cute in both kids rooms.
I have been thinking about doing this in some of my rooms. The carpet is done for...it's been kept clean but it's 23 years old. Replacing it with laminate flooring is not in my budget right now, so this may be an option for me now, and it can always be covered up sometime!
I really like this as well but I don't like that this is maybe the 3rd time AT has posted it. :-(
I have a baby's room with concrete. Just put down a thick rug with a thick carpet pad and it's fine.
I would have been safer with this concrete floor than with carpet as a kid. I had horrible sinus infections and mIssed a lot of school because I was allergic to the chemicals or mold in the old carpet in my room. I have sworn never to live with carpet again. This looks easy to keep clean and it poses no more safety risk than sidewalks or hardwood, frankly. I think it will look great with a cushy solid color rug for flopping around on.
I love it. Really nice!
I hate to be a Debbie Downer and I usually don't do this....BUT....isn't concrete cold?
Okay.... so maybe I would go with a different pattern than one that looks like you painted a bunch of vaginas on your floor.
So cool! I want to paint my basement floor. Will you come over and do it for me? I'll pay you. :)
Your vagina must be very multi-layered, Sarah. Congratulations on being a medical miracle!
But really--cute idea. Honestly, I'm not sure there's that much difference between falling on a hardwood floor and smooth concrete. Wood has more give, but a kid's going to get hurt falling on either (and unless they land on their head, I don't think it's an issue). Plus, she can put down rugs.
@WendyM1 -- Yes, concrete is cold -- and it feels SO good on my feet most of the year here in Central Oklahoma. The stained concrete floors (nice but nowhere near as cool as this floor!) are what sold me on my place -- they're cool (temperature-wise) and my cats can't destroy them! I do have area rugs for when it gets colder...
There's concrete like sidewalks (porous, broom finished, easy to scuff your knees) and then there is finished concrete which is smooth and stone like. It is literally cast stone. You can stain & seal it or paint it. If it was waterproofed correctly it shouldn't be damp. No difference having your kids play on finished concrete than there is having them play on a tile floor.
I like this floor a lot, but white? Hmm. I guess if you swiffer twice a day, you'll be OK. Every shed hair or piece of lint is going to show up.
Fantastic!
What a wonderful change. I love it!
She is kind of a genius but that really does look like an ocean of vaginas.
Very refreshing! Love it.
Love!
@JessThrift bwahahahaha
looks great! but... for a kids room? no way jose! yikes! broken toys, cups, knees, and who knows what else.
omg... it DOES look like 'an ocean of vaginas'!!! hahahaha!!!
If you visit the originating blog, her life story points out that the daughter is nine or 10 years old.
I don't think that age needs to live in a Nerf-world.
I must be really homesick today. I want to do this to my sidewalks but paint them like aspen trees.