We painted the floor

The floor was in such bad shape that we decided to paint it. Appalling I know! But in a few short years we are going to have the place recarpeted and we are going to put a rug over this floor so we figured why not.






It was still a lot of work. There was so much debris. We swept, vacuumed, swept some more and mopped. It was filthy.






Here is the first coat. It's difficult to see in the pic but it's a light gray color. Keith thinks it's very white and makes the walls look very yellow. Perhaps we should have gone with a warmer color.






Second coat. We will have to go over the seams with a brush. Do you see that dark border along the floor? It's the forest green paint that the last owner painted the baseboard. We bought quarter round to go around the room to cover it up and to cover the gap between baseboard and floor.

The floor requires 2-3 coats of polyurethane. I'm not sure how I feel about the floor right now but I'm sure it will be fine. Painting a wood floor doesn't seem like an ideal choice.




Another photo in the morning.