A floor, like everything else in your house, makes a statement about who you are and what kind of environment you prefer.
Wood makes a room feel handsome and rustic. Tile looks clean Carpet feels warm and fuzzy. And don’t even get me started with all the vibes different patterns can lend, which we recently broke down for you in an exclusive quiz.
So what happens when you have expensive taste, but not the checking account to reflect that? For instance, say you love marble flooring — which, according to Home Depot, can cost anywhere between $6 to $14 per square foot.
Simple. You take matters into your own hands and create affordable DIY flooring that will produce the look for less.
Instrucables user pat gordon has recently figured out precisely how to do that by discovering the mother of all cheap flooring ideas. He has created DIY faux marble that only cost him $1.68 per square foot. Now that’s a bargain!
What do you think of this DIY flooring? Let us know in the comments below!
To save tons of money on new flooring, the first thing this DIY-er did was clean her floor. She then painted the entire area with a color she wanted the grout to be. After she was done painting, she made grout lines with tape.
She then got contact paper and marked a tile with her tape. Then she began to swirl acrylic paint inside the tile area.
Then she added a few small spots of brown acrylic.
Next step was taking a plastic grocery bag filling it with some air, and then twisting the top, so the air was secured inside.
She then began to bop her bag up and down on the wet paint, creating a marble effect.
She bopped it up and down until the entire area was covered in paint.
Then she took a piece of paper and ripped it in two.
She then put white paint on the papers’ inner edges and smudged it with a small brush.
She gave the white lines the bopping bag treatment as well.
Then she lifted the paper and the effect is the translucent lines you often see in marble.
After she let it dry, she peeled off the tape and put several coats of polyurethane over it.
She then began to fit her faux marble on to her floor, cutting the paper to fit around the “grout.”
The end result looks like actual marble thanks to the polyurethane that deepens the color and adds more depth to the marble.
She also added a border to the edges, giving her floor more a customized look.
All of her materials cost her a little under $250 to cover a 420-square-foot space. If she had used actual marble it could have cost her anywhere from roughly $2,520 to $5,880.
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