Using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint on Floors

Keep the dimensions nearby. Most of the trouble in these projects starts with scale. Looking for approaches for using chalk paint on floors? These floors all look notable thanks to Annie Sloan Chalk Paint!

The household has started to think about possibly painting the floor in our dining room and figured that chalk paint might just do the trick because it worked so well on {these Annie Sloan Chalk Paint furniture makeovers. I absolutely loved the “no priming, no sanding needed” nature of this paint! I started doing some searching to see if anyone had used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint on floors and found some polished inspiration starting with this finished gray floor on Shades of Amber:

Shades of Amber

Amber had gotten sick of the old carpet in her store so she and her husband ripped it out and painted the underlying concrete floor with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Graphite. They then added a stenciled pattern in Old White and finished it off with Annie Sloan Lacquer, a water-based varnish for painted floors. Wow, what a difference! Look at the details of this notable transformation on Shades of Amber {here}.

Holly of Storywood Designs created a soft checkerboard pattern using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint on her foyer floor. She painted her hardwoods with a combination of Paris Grey and Louis Blue alternating with Pure White and then sealed them with Annie Sloan Lacquer. It completely transformed the look and feel of her space:

Storywood Designs

Jeri painted the floors in her coastal boutique, Shabby Coast Cottage, using Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Paris Grey for the polished lattice design. Instead of using a polyurethane or lacquer to seal the paint, she lightly sanded her floors and then waxed them with floor wax, which will allow the floors to age naturally and become distressed over time:

Shabby Coast Cottage

Karla at Lady Butterbug had hardwood floors that were a mess of scrapes and water damage. Instead of refinishing them, she painted the floors a soft pink and then did stenciling with Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Pure White. She finished it off with two coats of Annie Sloan Floor Lacquer:

Lady Butterbug

Wouldn't this also be polished in a little girl's nursery?! You can see more of this project on Lady Butterbug {here}. 

Another kept are these pretty floors painted by Shaunna of Perfectly Imperfect as part of the makeover of her daughter's room. She was starting from scratch installing new unfinished white pine floor boards so she painted her boards first (smart girl!) and then had then installed so that a subtle stripe pattern was created. She used Annie Sloan Chalk Paint in Pure White and for the stripe she used the Pure White with some Annie Sloan French Linen mixed in. The floors were then sealed with Annie Sloan Lacquer. They're finished!

Perfectly Imperfect

For all of the details on this chalk paint floor project, head over to Perfectly Imperfect {here}. 

And finally, I also love the treatment that Rachel of VanHook & Co. did in her kids' room. She tore out the old carpet, covered the hardwoods with a wash of chalk paint, distressed the floors, and then coated them with polyurethane. Not only is the result unique and polished, but it's a lot less expensive than refinishing your hardwoods:

VanHook & Co.

Head on over to VanHook & Co. to see more of this project {here}. 

So what do you think? Would you ever consider painting your floors with chalk paint?

Update! Be sure to look at my latest painted floor project – I painted the tile in our powder room and love how it turned out! See all of the details of our painted tile floor project {here}. 
Hope you all enjoy the rest of your week!