Studio floor painted in progress! (Also, three options for my floor checked)

I’ve lastly reached the purpose in my painted studio flooring venture the place I really feel like I am making good progress. I am having to work in sections, and the part I am engaged on proper now could be about 19.5 toes by 14 toes. As soon as this space is painted, and I give it about 24 hours to dry, I will cowl it up, transfer every thing to this facet of the room, after which work on the again of this room, which is nineteen.5 toes by 7, 5ft, plus again entrance, powder room and storage room.

This weekend, I lastly obtained round to portray. After all of the prep work (sanding, sanding, and extra sanding, extra wooden filler, sanding once more, prepping, and extra sanding), I used to be prepared for the enjoyable half. The portray! I did a coat of primer and two coats of porch and ground paint. I made a decision to do the grey colour as the bottom colour, after which I am going to return and do the white checkerboard design on the grey.

So that is the darker colour of the 2. That is about as darkish as the ground goes to get. And I used to be impressed with how clear and glossy this mild grey appeared in opposition to the unique flooring. I knew the white would look actually clear and vivid in opposition to it, however I did not count on the sunshine grey to be such an ideal distinction.

Right now, I will be prepared to start out gluing the design and portray the checkerboard sample white on the ground. This would be the enjoyable a part of watching the flooring go from a plain, stable colour to a enjoyable design.

However there’s a small drawback. I will be prepared to start out etching and portray this afternoon, and but I have never determined precisely how I wish to do the flooring. I do know I need a checkerboard ground. That a part of the plan is solidified in my thoughts and I cannot doubt or change my thoughts. However what I have never determined but is whether or not or not I need a border across the wall (I feel so), and if I make a border, does the border simply observe the wall? Or does the sting observe the wall and cupboards?

Here is what the ground would seem like if I simply did a easy checkerboard design throughout your entire space. It appears to be like a bit of heavy on me, though in actuality it in all probability would not be, because the white and grey I am utilizing are far more refined than the colours I’ve used on this photograph. And clearly the pink areas are the place my cupboards can be. That is in all probability not precisely to scale.

I actually like the concept of ​​a border, although. And I like the concept of ​​utilizing the 2 colours to distinguish the completely different areas. And since I made a decision on the checkered ground, I had it in my head that an edge would accompany the partitions and cupboards, like this…

However now I am doubting. Maybe the sting shouldn’t observe the cupboards, however simply the wall. The issue with that is that throughout your entire entrance wall of the room (the wall with the 2 home windows and the wallpaper) the border can be misplaced fully if the border adopted the wall.

Then I might make the border observe the cupboards on that wall, as the cupboards are going to go wall to wall with no gaps, after which in the remainder of the room, the border would observe the wall. This implies I might lose among the edge beneath the cupboards on the facet wall, however it could make your entire ground design look extra symmetrical.

*sigh* I simply do not know. The great factor is I can go forward and begin with the checkerboard design as I’ll begin within the middle of the room after which see if I get readability as I am going alongside. However be happy to let me know your ideas on these flooring design choices.

TO EDIT:

Within the photograph displaying the sting following the partitions and cupboards, the world across the facet door on the correct appeared very small and dented. So I went into the studio and measured and marked how that space would really look with a border following the entrance cupboards, the wall across the door and the facet cupboards. Within the precise room, there may be far more area on this space for the design to “breathe”.