Okay, it’s no secret that I’m artsy-fartsy.  Photography, DYI projects, HGTV stalker, and Pinterest Junkie. Hi, my name is Katie and I’m a Pinterest Junkie.  Since quarantine, the hubs and I have taken to completing MANY projects around the house.  I guess since we were all sitting around staring at the same décor over and over, I wanted to research ways to redo things around the house on a budget. Enter Pinterest.  People have asked how I’ve done some of these projects, so I figured it would be best to write some posts to share what we used and how we did them. So…here we go! Weeeeee! Below is the before picture of our upstairs bathroom. Kinda blah, if you ask me.  I wanted a new floor to give it some pizzaz, but didn’t want to spend oodles of money.

This flooring was linoleum. Completely outdated, in my opinion, and just BLAH. So Pinteret told me to paint and stencil it since the ceramic tile I wanted would cost around $1000! This project only cost around $150 for supplies and paint. I used the Rustoleum Floor paint and top coat and couldn’t be happier. That’s a STEAL! I also used fusion mineral paint (“pressed fern”) to paint the vanity. This is the “during:”

1. Clean your floor really well. I used distilled vinegar and water. I let that dry really well before I started painting.
2. Two coats of white heavy duty floor paint like this one. This insured that the paint would be durable for the amount of traffic in this bathroom.
3. I started with my stencil and paint. LOVED my choice in stencil and would choose this one again. I used small paint brushes from the dollar store to touch up the paint. I ordered two stencils and would advise to do the same, that way you can work while you wash the other stencils off to prevent bleeding through.
4. Final stage was doing the top coat found in the kit.
5. Painted the vanity using Fusion Mineral Paint in Pressed Fern and replaced the pulls and DONE!

It actually wasn’t that bad of a project. TOTALLY doable and I have three little ones and three dogs. UPDATED: After a year this is still going STRONG and I get TONS of compliments on it from guests! See the finished product:

What do you think? Would you paint your floor?