
painting checkerboard floors | part 2
When you last saw the floors, they were all taped off and ready to paint. You can find that post HERE if you missed it. The taping was definitely the most time-consuming part. After that, it’s pretty much smooth sailing for this project. I initially purchased the same color I used on my kitchen walls – Stonington Gray mixed at 50%. I wanted the squares to be a very pale blue/gray, so the checkers would be subtle and not too high contrast with the bright white. I painted the first row of squares, removed the tape and knew, even before it dried, that it wasn’t what I wanted. The color looks very blue/gray in my kitchen, but in the studio, it looked like a pale beige. I pondered it for a few minutes and decided I spent waaaaaay too much time and energy taping off those squares to settle. So,









