Anyone painted their stripped floorboards?? I know you have - i REMEMBER!!!

[PaulaYatesBiggestFan]

Someone on here had
they stripped then painted them with f and b green apple and something else.

we have spent another long day in our lived stripping our bedroom boards

( dh drilled though a central hearting pipe - then the edger burned out)

At the end of the day they look very patchy and the boards we have replaced stand out like sore thumbs as the original are 150 years old

BUT they are now smooth and nice and wide and we are considering painting them...

did you paint yours?
what with?
any advice on colours??

PLEASE ! life is too short for another diy disaster!

I've painted floorboards before, used some pale coloured floor paint

Don't paint floors white - I've done this and although it looks lovely, the mop gets a lot of use

what's your decorating style paula? House is Vict, right?

We have early Vict cottage with a minimal (but not loft apartment) white walls, wood floors thing going on.

Downstairs we replaced boards, sanded, varnished (with MATTE varnish). Within a couple of years new boards no longer stuck out like sore arse, mainly bcs all varnish yellows a bit, unfortunately.

UPstairs we have painted F/B Old White (I think - anyway, one of the really very off off-whites). It does look shabby now, and can't really clean it so that it's sparkling because of dings, grooves and chips - but it still works, and feels really nice. Sort of seasidey.

HTH! (Have never written that before. It feels .. icky.)

We had similar problem and ended up painting them. I think it was farrow and ball floor paint which we are very pleased with, it has a slightly higher oil content though not too shiny but enough to be easier to keep clean.

Thanks only aphase

thanks onebatmother and yes it does help!!! lol at icky!

ok going to look at old white - i think a white needs to look 'old' though and it is difficult to know

do you like the colour?

i wonder what colour f and b you did barking?

my house is victorian and normally i go a bit minimal tbh - i was trying to give our room a kind of 'earthy' sounds naff - feel

furniture oak so in a way i do not mind removing the pine as woods could clash but colour such an issue...just want neutral

but there is 'neutral' and 'neutral' !

I think Old White is marginally greener than it appeared on the card, so I'd go for one with a bit more brown/grey in if I was doing it again. Def wouldn't go paler though, I don't think..

who was that netter?

ooh thanks for that - i need direction!!!

I can't remember the name of it. It was a green/blue shade. I got very hung up about it at the time and ended up getting 3 tester pots first, which I'm glad I did as they came up darker than the sample leaflet. Also had to think about the light as it was on the stairs which had no window.
I don't think you can go wrong with f&b though - they're all good, the pigment content is so high compared to others.

ooh thankyou

i assume you were not the mumsnetter who did 'cooking apple green' on her floor?

We did our living room and main bedroom with Crown floor paint, as we couldn't afford the flooring we ultimately wanted at the time. Can't remember what shade but it was a very creamy colour. Agree with onebatmother that it looks lovely and seasidey- made both rooms feel much airier than before. I imagined lots of wafting around in white cotton and washing with a jug & bowl

Personally think that in this colour it looked better as it got a bit worn, added to the vintagey feel that you get with painted floors. Love the sagey green colours mentioned.

No it wasn't called cooking apple green, I think I got the tester pots at Homebase.

Do you have to varnish on top or anything? Or just pain?

Hi Yurt1 - Not with the f & b floor paint as it has a high oil content

Found ir farrowball floorpaint

we've got painted floorboards in 2 bedrooms - is white floor board paint. needed several coats (children's bedrooms so lots of wear and tear and jumping and dropping things) . v easy to keep clean. didn't use anything special though, it's bog standard stuff. has been fine

thankyou all

now i am painicking about gaps between - shoukd i be filling them?

no, hopeless task if I recall. With painting you've kind of got to go with the flow and accept that historically it's been something that the impoverished have done, so not to worry too much is authentic!

My brother did, it looked nice. He used pale green I think.

fab advice onebat!

now just need colour advice?

my only advice is, not white!
we did our bedroom floor in white
it looked lovely and pristine for about a day
now it's pretty grubby and marked, and discoloured underneath our rugs. off-white would probably have been better...
i do think painted floorboards can look really nice though

F&B say it takes 2 weeks before you can use the floor normally...that must make life difficult if you follow the advice?

i think that means spills/dragging furniture tbh

i like 'string' but a bit too green