wow. this one takes the cake. amazing!

still looking at it – the stencil result is so clean and crisp! great job!

This is beautiful! And I love the yellow :)

Oh my gosh these are the prettiest floors ever – what a clever idea!

shut your mouth–thats amazing! LOVE IT.

very creative!

Lori’s floors are gorgeous! Love the yellow – so bright and cheerful!

Amazing. Wish I could get her to come to my house and do that!

Absolutely gorgeous! I love it!

Crazy daisy!

inspired! reminds me of mosaic floor designs – a fraction of the elbow grease/cost though.

This is awesome . . .I just love it!

Such a great idea! I’ll probably try this on my stairway landings. It sounds so much better than trying to refinish the wood stairs or carpeting over them.

Lovely! I’m inspired to make an attempt on our own unruly kitchen floor.

So beautiful and creative! I’m feeling inspired…

Fantastic! LOVE stenciled flooring! Are the stencils from Royal Design Studio?

just gorgeous lori!

This is amazing and gorgeous! I wish that there were wooden floors hidden underneath my flooring, but alas, there are not.

whoa. LOVE this!

Lori has such an incredible flair for pattern. I love seeing it in her design work and now how she applies it to her personal space. Amazing!

Beautiful – and that stencil is the perfect size for the room.

I LOVE it!!!! I think i have a new project for the summer :)

ooooh! i love it!

WOW, I would have never thought to use such a bold color on a floor, it looks amazing though. I would like to see how she styles the rest of the room.

beautiful job.

this is so beautiful! i want those floors!

Holy cow! Those floors are gorgeous – what a talent! I hope everyone takes their shoes off – it’s too pretty to walk on!

So gorgeous! But what else would we expect from Lori? Nice job :)

This is beautiful – I want to do this somewhere in my house now!

How can someone NOT be utterly happy in that room? I’d love to see what it looks like when furnished… any pics?

Dang! Those are the best looking floors I’ve seen in a long time. Redoing flooring is really hard and 5 layers of old stuff?! Kudos!

So inspiring – and so well done. I am definitely going to do this someday… when I’m not a renter. Awesome job!

OOh! Lovely. Anyone recognize those curtains?

I seriously LOVE these floors and wish I 1) had a floor to do this to and 2) had that much patience!

so beautiful, bright and cheery, but why oh why cover up hardwood floors?? In the stencil pic, the sanded floor in the background looks to be in good shape…?

Those are absolutely stunning! What a great pattern and beautiful punch of color for the room!

LOVE this! Definitely going to have to find a way to incorporate this idea somewhere into my home…

WOW!

This is gorgeous! Fantastic idea!

Yellow has been really catching my eye lately. I love what you’ve done with the floors.

Wow! That floor looks incredible and must make them happy every day.

Architte – I think that’s a different room bordering on the yellow floor room. You can see in the first pic under the cut that there’s a ton of damage.

So nice to see it again! Just beautiful Lori – worth the work!

holy wow. You just made my favorite color sing to me :) that looks really awesome. Incredible! genius!

the possibility for woods floors is endless…. and so beautiful!

to answer some questions:

sorry, no furnished photos yet. this project was just recently completed and i want to give it a full couple weeks to cure…..especially with all the humidity we’ve been having. i’ll be sure to send some on when it’s done.

as for the floors, they were not actually hardwood. the adjoining room was beautiful maple which you can see and we just had that sanded and refinished. this room was soft wood….like pine or fir. we opted for the painted option rather than re-carpet or some other floor treatment.

thank you to everyone for your wonderful comments and for stopping over on my blog to say hi. i really appreciate it. we love our new floors and like someone above mentioned, they do make me very happy! ;)

B e a u t i f u l !!!

As someone who’s seen it in person – I can you it looks as good as it does in the picture! And it really cheers up the space – love it!
Congrats Lori on completing the project!

oops, i just realized i missed a question!

about the pattern: it was inspired by a photo i found from ohdeedoh of a stenciled floor. from that photo i drew my version in illustrator and edited from there. (i made the center “flower” larger, spaced things out a bit, got rid of some smaller details, etc.) then i blew it up so that each full “flower” was 24″ in diameter. printed it up in tile mode and taped the sheets together for the pattern. adhered that to foamcore and cut it out. hope that helps!

What an amazing job. I just love the color combination and I thought my forest in our bedroom was a lot of work.

um this is SO beautiful.

FAb-oo-lious! That is such a pretty color and the stencil the perfect size. Truly impressive.

That is gorgeous!! so creative and inspiring!!!

Wow! I love it. Almost makes me want to add, one room with messed up floors to my house hunting list!

To say this is incredible and I am absolutely enamored with this floor, room, color scheme and everything is a grave understatement.

a m a z i n g !

no rugs necessary, dang! this is gotta be in your top 10 of before and afters. sooo stunning.

oh my goodness, that is phenomenal!!

Absolutely gorgeus! Love that shade of yellow and the pattern.

absolutely BEAUTIFUL! i can see this idea having so many gorgeous applications…fabulous work. can’t wait to see the whole room finished!

madly deeply in love with these floors. yum!

wow. So lovely, love the color, design, 70’s feel. I’d be wary to even walk on it, though.

I’m totally sold on this stunning idea for my spare bedroom. Now, I need a fix for devilish white floor grout in my kitchen.

such an awesome idea!

I am completely in love and utterly impressed!

That’s brilliant! We’ve been putting off painting our floors for ages – need to print this out and put it on the fridge to help get my ass in gear already!!

looks great! I kinda liked it when it was just yellow though! :)

WOWZA! I really love this. Totally rockin’ floors!

What a fantastic look. Love the colour!

I’m AMAZED! What an incredible job has she done! It looks fantastic.

how innovative!! this is such a cute idea . but.. i wonder if a little mistake in the placement of the pattern would look very bad.. i want to try this but allitle scared!

just wow!

I have to say, when I hear painted floors, I usually cringe. Probably because of a horrible apartment I rented years back that thought ugly brown paint was a good alternative to fixing the floors. (I dubbed the apt. “The Ghetto Chateau”) This floor, however, rocks! I love the bright, cheery feel of it, plus the fact it’s not trying to pass itself off as something else.

WOW-WEE! I have always regretted that I was just too pregnant to paint my kitchen floor. Someday, it will happen and I now have the perfect inspiration.

thanks,
Kelly

Wow, what a transformation! If only I didn’t rent :(

wow!Simple fantastic floor>never imagined Yellow to be so preety on floor.Also you are very creative in making the stencil.Thanks for sharing the idea with us.

This is my favorite floor EVER!!! Oh, it’s just gorgeous…the color, the stencil, the painted wood. Heaven! I want one! :)

nice job. :)

Oh I wish my kitchen floors were in bad shape so I could justify this…it’s so beautiful…what a way to lighten and brighten.

wow. great. wondering what you topped it with to protect from furniture and general wear n’ tear?

heather – right now it’s not topped with anything for wear and tear because we want it to obtain the worn look a little. once it gets to the place we want it, we will seal it with several coats of poly.

oooooooooooh!!!! I wish I had crummy old floors I could do this to! Somehow I think my husband might not be too happy if I did it to our 2 yr. old wood floors… Awesome job!

oh man! this is great! so funny, i was just talking about this with another person who suggested i do this when i pull up my carpets the wood floors have stains. i love how this turned out!!

I looove this floor!! so inspiring and an awesome idea!

OMG. jaw dropping!! Seriously!

How brilliant is this?

I know this has already been said, but “wow” your floor project is really beautiful & amazing & gorgeous!

WHOA!

Wow! What a transition! Refreshing and prestine. Wonderful.

I love painted floors, its so east hampton…

But my ocd would have me looking for caulk to fill in every line between the wood boards…It looks so cute, but I would be way to afraid of dirt getting in there…

thats why every floor in my house is either polished concrete (which i dont love the look of, but damn its easy to keep clean), or huge 3 by 3 white marble tile with no grout lines, also easy to keep clean….

I do wish I had warm wood floors…but my house isnt old enough to have those cool antique wood floors…

OMG….absolutely love it :)

due to all the rain the northeast has been getting this summer and all the “accidents” my little yorkie has, I went a little crazy and ripped up all the carpeting in my family room. I to love painted floors and have done one previously. This floor is gorgeous and would love to know more on how the get the stencil made. Job well done.!

Oh. my. god. that yellow floor is amazing.

I want that floor!
Very nice.

WOW ! That looks AMAZING
I really LOVE this idea
gotta try this someday

Wow!! They are BEAUTIFUL!! I absolutely love them…great job Lori!

Holy cow! That looks amazing!!! Great job Lori!

beautiful!!

This is gorgeous. I wonder how it’s going to look after a years’ worth of feet stomping on it…?

wow! i love it!

Great job! Can you come to my house and do this?

brilliant!!

Love Love Love these floors!!!!!!!! You Rock!

I love painted floors, too. But if I were to do mine again, I would use a primer on them. I thought because I was using an outdoor/patio paint, nothing would bleed through,…and nothing did until I put the varnish coat on top. This somehow made some color from the wood beneath leech through in patches…which is okay for my Maine Cottage look, but would NOT look good with this careful stencil pattern! So use a primer!

I now have the perfect floor solution for my daughter’s bathroom. The best part is that my husband liked it too! Any chance you know the yellow paint color? It is perfect! Awesome job!

nancy- just checking back in to see if there were any more questions and i see yours about the color. unfortunately i custom mixed it because i wasn’t happy with the initial color we picked. wish i could be of more help! if you’re really interested you can shoot me an e-mail and i can paint you a small swatch that you could take in and have color-matched. (lori @ marzipaninc . com)

Stunning! I would love to try this, my husband and I acquired a 3 bedroom, cottage and all the floors, and staircase could benefit from this. Did you just make one large stencil and move it around the room, or did you cover the floor in stencils…not sure how you map it out?

Wow! This floor looks amazing! We just bought an older home with gorgeous wood floors. The kitchen has laminate that we are going to pull up. We think its pine. I would love to know how you handled the floor before you applied the paint. Did you have to do anything to the open joints between the boards?