#SPLATTER PAINT WALL DESIGN PATCH#

Premier is a really nice family-owned independent paint store with a wide variety of brands and products. Since it was too cold at the time to have Green Building Supply ship me all of the paint required, we decided to take a trip to Madison, Wisconsin for the weekend to pick up the remainder of what I needed from Premier Paint and Wallpaper. We decided weвЂ™d try to mimic some of PollockвЂ™s technique, but do it in lighter layers so more of the tung oiled concrete could show through. It was while researching his work that I also came across an East Coast (mainly New York?) beach house tradition of splatter painting floors, done mainly, it seems, to hide the sand and mess brought in from the beach, all while giving the floors some added durability. Even tinting the slurry mix to various shades of blue and green didnвЂ™t seem to help at all. Unfortunately, once this patching was done, it quickly became apparent that the look was just messy, if not just boring and forgettable.

#SPLATTER PAINT WALL DESIGN PATCH#

I thought if I used a slurry mix to patch some surface imperfections in the concrete beforehand that it might produce a pleasant mottled look across the entire floor once it was finished with the tung oil. The plan initially was to just seal the floor with tung oil, much like we did for our wood floors. from a failed sump pump or a leaky hot water tank). Whatever we came up with had to be durable, if only to avoid having to replace any flooring should the basement ever have a problem with water (e.g. We use the space mainly for working out, reading, office work, some smaller arts and crafts projects, and weвЂ™ve created a few small areas for miscellaneous storage.

The basement is mostly unfinished, at least by traditional standards. We didnвЂ™t want to spend a lot of money on basement flooring, so we knew we wanted to keep things simple, especially since we werenвЂ™t going for a high-end look for the space.

Splatter paint wall design