Paint your Antique Wood Flooring with Striking Designs and Complementary Patterns

Antique wood flooring gives your home a rustic yet modern and western look. It adds elegance to your home and people with softer tastes often prefer softwood flooring to hardwood flooring. Hardwood being more durable is preferred by many homeowners to make their flooring last for a long period even without proper maintenance.

Birch, Fir and Pine are the most common softwood flooring choices. Pine is generally used in older and period properties. It is widely available and often less expensive than hardwood options. Pine floors are often found in old churches. If maintained with care it could be as durable as hardwood. Birch wood bears knotholes and is preferred as a pine counterpart by many homeowners. Fir exhibits dark grains and large patches that are quite attractive and displays a different character. Many homeowners love it for its appearance but install it at their own risk for its least durable characteristics.

A hardwood floor is always a better option when it comes to durability. Hardwood floors are good to look at and bear less signs of wear and tear over a long period of use. These can be repainted easily, restored, and made to look like new floors. Oak, Ash and Maple are the most well liked hardwood floor options. Oak is preferred for its dark and taut grains, maple for a soothing color and fewer grain options that makes any room look lighter and softer, and ash for its consistency in grains and uniformity of texture.

Painting wooden floors could be fun as well as a trademark for your home to make it look different. You could paint geometric patterns or any other design like checkerboard pattern that complements your home decor. Painting could be used as an alternative to restoration of wood flooring, which could be very expensive.

Painting would primarily require proper scraping and priming of the floor before it is painted. If you were repainting your floor on the existing paints then a good wash and clean would make your floor ready to paint again. You can use low luster, quick dry epoxy-reinforced paints with an additional coat of water based polyurethane coat to retain the paint on floors with high traffic.

Some people might be in favor of using oil based paints. Regular cleaning and drying is required to maintain such oil painted floors properly. The designs you choose are best available in home décor stores, internet, and favorite home décor magazines. It is always advisable to match your floor pattern to your walls and ceilings to get the best and desired results.

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Old Wood Gets New Life as Reclaimed Antique Flooring Where some might see a crumbling old barn or a dilapidated factory, Don Carlisle sees an opportunity to preserve history and beautify a home at the same time. Carlisle’s Stoddard, N.H. based company has been reclaiming antique wood and turning it into new floors for nearly 40 years.