Luxury Housing Trends & Home Improvement Ideas

Painted floors were very popular back in the day, and according to this history of the practice, painting floors pre-dated the painting of walls by quite a bit.

“Stenciling of floors was a way to simulate woven carpet, floorcloths and parquet floors without that expense. The whole was protected with varnish which, over time, mellowed to a rich yellow/brown causing the black, red, green and white paints to appear as the finest inlay of variegated woods set in background colors of yellow ochre, grey, “Indian red”, and green.”

If you have an older home and want to create historically authentic flooring, painting those wooden floorboards might be a cheerful way to do it. And of course there are no rules that say this can only be done in older homes.

You can have someone come in and paint your floors by hand, or you can get stencil patterns to do it yourself.