Painted floor project November 2009

This was our inspiration picture for our 3rd floor bedroom paint project in November 2009. This idea came from a June 2009 article in This Old House. According to the article this project (assuming 10-by-10 room, our room is bigger and was certainly not in perfect condition) "Time: 3 hours per day over 3 days and Difficulty: Easy to moderate. Calculating the pattern requires some math, but the painting is a cinch". I don't think this description is entirely accurate and I am sure I could never get the crisp lines that Karl did if I tried this myself. This next picture shows some a general idea of the steps involved. Next are a couple of pictures before John and I cleared out the room. As seen in these pictures we had never tried to coordinate much in this cluttered bedroom so this was a good opportunity to delete many things as well.

The moving dolly John purchased for this project helped us to be able to clear this room in 3 hours.

The dark brown test paint on the walls was there from when we were considering a different plan. In the end we went with a similar wall paint just slightly more yellow than before.

This is how the floor looked on Sunday November 29. Still some squares to paint (you can see on the left side) and the final urethane coat still to be applied. Karl painted the walls on Monday and was about 3 days into the floor part when this picture was taken.