Hello buddies! At the moment, I’m so excited to share the tutorial for the painted ground Collin did for our Apple + Oak workplace makeover. After we first started to plan the workplace, Allison advised me she needed a LOT of sample mixing (which is so uncommon and SO FUN). I picked out a bunch of pink cement tile choices, however when finances wouldn’t permit for tile and set up we turned to DIY.
Now, this isn’t our first rodeo with painted tile. No, no, no. Now we have a fairly deep archive of painted tile initiatives, truly. See just a few of my favorites right here and right here.
This DIY saved us 1000’s of {dollars}, but it surely was time consuming for certain. It value solely $85 to do that entire room, however be keen to spend as much as 40 hours on slicing stencils, portray and detailing. 
Provides:
-roll of peel and stick vinyl contact paper
-piece of card inventory or skinny cardboard
–oil primarily based paint pen
–porch and ground oil primarily based paint
Instruments:
-cutting mat
-razor knife
-scissors
–steel ruler with nonslip backing
-right angle ruler (non-compulsory)
-4′ ruler or degree
-tape measure
-mini paint curler
Whole $84.23
To begin, we’re going to hint and reduce out a stencil out of the cardboard inventory. It is because you’re going to wish to hint the star design a lot of occasions onto the contact paper and it’s tremendous useful to have this stencil available to hurry issues up just a little as a result of actually, this one took fairly a very long time!
Take a sharpie and hint a 5″ sq. onto a nook of the cardboard inventory. You can also make the dimensions of your sq. larger relying on how massive you need your design to be, however we did 5″ “tiles” with our ground. Subsequent, hint out your star design (or any design you need) inside that sq., ensuring it’s completely centered and reduce it out utilizing a razor knife and slicing mat.
Unroll and reduce 3 to 4 sheets of the vinyl contact paper, lengthy sufficient to suit about six “tiles” on it. The again of the contact paper has this tremendous useful grid on it to assist with this. Layer the sheets of contact paper and tape the 4 corners down onto your slicing mat and take your stencil and hint out six “tiles” as proven within the image above. it might even be useful to tape the corners of your slicing mat down to forestall it from slipping when making cuts. Security first!
The explanation to layer the sheets of contact paper is so you’ll be able to reduce out a number of “tiles” without delay as doable to once more, velocity issues alongside since you’re going to wish lots of those tiles, relying on the sq. footage of your ground and likewise how massive your “tiles” truly are. We had been working with about 80 sq. toes and 5″ tiles, so i wanted to chop out about 400ish of those contact paper tile stencils (yikes!). It took a just a few days however the finish outcome was price it! Take your steel ruler and your razor knife and place the steel ruler and reduce out the middle star as proven above. This may take an excellent quantity of stress and focus, so be actually cautious to not reduce your self! Go gradual and be secure.
As soon as your whole contact paper stencils are reduce and prepared, it’s time to prep the ground. Be certain your area is swept and mopped totally of all filth and particles. If you’re portray your ground first like us, use a oil primarily based ground paint. Oil primarily based paint may be very smelly and takes 24 hours to dry, so be certain your area may be very properly ventilated and at all times put on a masks when portray with it! After it dries, take your oil primarily based paint pen and your 4′ ruler and make a 5″ x 5″ (or no matter dimension you need) on the ground utilizing the ruler to hint straight and even traces.
Peel and stick the tile stencils onto the 5″ squares traced out on the ground and with a mini paint curler paint over the stencil with white oil primarily based ground paint. Wait 24 hours to do a second coat and wait a minimum of 48 hours after the final coat is finished to take away the vinyl stencils. This DIY positively took lots longer than anticipated, and there was additionally development happening round our area whereas we had been doing it, so it stored getting tousled. However general, it was price it as a result of it was only a fraction of the price of actual tile and set up—solely $85!
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Isn’t it lovely?! I’m so happy with Collin for this one. It’s a DIY dream come true! Take a look at how Keely painted a sample on her tile ground for extra inspiration!
xx – Elsie + Collin