A Long time love...

I've had a long time love for Checkered floors. I always knew I wanted them in my house somewhere.  I didn't think it would be now but  I was looking at Pinterest one night and we both fell in love with one we saw.  It was actually a yellow one I showed him and we decided to do it the next day.  We had recently changed the layout of our kitchen and had to piece some flooring back in so it was a perfect time. He bought the maple colored planks and him and Luke pieced it in.

 

Once that was done, we hand sanded the entire floor to scuff the surface.  Jason read that the best paint to use when doing painting inside flooring is Porch Paint.  We knew we wanted an off white and now was the time to decide what the 2nd color was going to be.  I picked a muted Navy because it went with our color scheme.  It wasn't too harsh, too bright, or too light like some of the other's we saw.  It was just right!  Here's the off-white base going on...

We did a couple coats of that and then Jason started measuring out 24" squares turned on diagonal.  We really loved the diagonal look verses just a basic squared off look.  I regret that we don't have a good picture of the taped off floor but here is what we do have of the finished floor.

 

One thing we loved about the painted floors we had seen was that they had such a warn, weathered look.  That seemed perfect for the style of our house (coastal cottage I like to call it). We knew with having two kids it would never stay scratch free anyway!