New Office Floor

I was checking out a new blog (http://www.theletteredcottage.net/) and got a great idea.  This woman stained her existing plywood subfloor and then painted a checkerboard pattern over top.  I've always loved this checkerboard look and painted wood floors, but never had wood floors that I was willing to paint.  Well subfloor is super cheap, so I thought let's give it a try.  Well you know how it goes, Corey got on board (surprisingly quickly might I add) and then suddenly we were buying super cheap solid hardwood floors for his office.  We got utility grade 3 1/4" oak floors for 99 cents a sqare foot.  You can't beat that!  So this weekend we glued the hardwood to the cement floor, stained it antique brown, and then had second thoughts about painting it.  Mostly it was the difficulty of the diamond pattern that was making me hesitate.  So at 10:30 on Saturday night Corey bought a chalk line and we figured out the pattern.  We taped everything off and I painted away until 2 in the morning.  Here are some pictures of the process.  I'll post again when we have the office put back together with new baseboards.  The plan is to have Corey put in built in bookcases all along the back wall and paint them white.  I really love how the floor turned out.  And I really love working on things like this with my sweet husband.  He was the one who wouldn't give up on the diamonds.

The glue was a huge mess.  I still have it all over my legs and feet.

Pre-stain

It looked really good before the paint, so I was a little scared.

Here it is!  I really love it.