Brush-on Character

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Figure A Figure B Figure C

Paint is a wonderful and inexpensive way to update a floor. It's amazing what a mix of color and creativity can do to a room. Coastal Living magazine's Carol Vose shares how she used various painting techniques--from painted checkerboard patterns to splattering paint from a brush--to liven up the floors in her Maine farmhouse.

Vose says, "The right floor is critical to the rest of the room...it can lighten, it can brighten and it change a whole space." In her own farmhouse kitchen, she painted a checkerboard pattern over the old linoleum floor (figure A). To do this, clean the floor thoroughly to remove the wax finish, apply several coats of oil-based primer and apply the lighter color. Tape off the squares, paint the darker color and seal the entire floor with either a polyacrylic or polyurethane.
She used a splatter paint technique in an upstairs bedroom (figure B). It's an old New England paint technique called salt and peppering that involves tapping a brush loaded with thinned paint onto a stick to create splatter marks.
As a tribute to all the people born in her old farmhouse, she faintly painted the names on each stair riser (figure C).

Guests
Carol Vose
Stylist / Designer, Coastal Living magazine
Website: www.coastalliving.com
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Country Style : Episode COS-207
•	Log Cabin Kitchen
•	Brown Pottery
•	Using Color
•	Brush-on Character
•	Patriotic Collections
•	Easy Arrangements

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