PAINTING A VINYL FLOOR

I did this quite a while ago - about a month and a half ago to be precise - just before I painted the Union Jack on the door in this little section of the back mud room  - you can see the door turned flag HERE 

And then I completely forgot about it - 

In order to lay floor down in this area we would have had to remove the doors and cut them and so I decided to paint them instead ( surprise surprise surprise - said Gomer Pyle ) 

I primed it first with BIN Zinsser  - it's a very small area so this took no time at all - and waited 24 hours to do the next step

Then I painted it bright white ( Behr Porch and Patio Paint )  2 coats

Once that was dry I made my pattern by tracing an actual tile across the entire surface - like so

The floor does not follow a straight line - so it appears a little crooked - the entire house is crooked so it would have stuck out like a sore thumb had it been nice and straight :)

( how come we pronounce crooked - crook-ed -  instead of like looked or hooked or booked? ) 

These are the things that interrupt my thought process on a daily basis...................and in turn interrupt my blog posts as well.

Soooooo, then I stuck a little piece of painters tape in the squares I wanted to paint grey

Then I simply filled in the spaces with a deep grey ( again Behr Porch and Patio )

and Voila !

Checkerboard floor 

Well a bit of a crook-ed checker board floor but a checker board floor none the less

and a heck of a lot better then the before

Ok - I'm back in the front porch today - where huge progress has been made - but even larger progress still needs to be made

Crisp white with a deep grey ( again - surprise surprise surprise lol ) 

here's the before

And the before

Have a wonderful Thursday All !!!

Hugs ( if you don't mind the paint brush in my hand - surprise - surprise - surprise ! ) 

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