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Popular Brown Paper Flooring Follow-Up: How Are They 4 Years Later?

ByJami Boys

Our popular brown paper flooring original video (that has spawned a lot of copies!) and our FAQ answering the many questions we get on it led us to create this follow-up video to provide even more information on how it wears as well as answering more questions.

Brown Paper Flooring 4 Years Later Video - An Oregon Cottage

More than four years ago Brian and I tore up the disgusting carpet in our daughter’s room and covered the particle board subfloor with brown craft paper. While we worked on it, we shot footage for a video so other people could easily follow exactly what we’d done. We thought a few thousand people might want to see it, not a few hundred thousand!

Since then it’s become one of AOC’s most popular posts and has generated so many questions I created a whole Brown Paper Flooring FAQ page. One of the things people want to know – and for good reason – is how well do paper floors hold up under foot traffic.

So we’ve made a follow-up video where we revisit our floors to see how they’ve held up after more than four years. We also look at issues like area rugs and sun fading, and something I did wrong that is now causing a problem. And at the end of the video I answer the most common questions from the hundreds we’ve gotten on YouTube and this blog. I hope you enjoy it!

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Since 2009 Jami Boys has helped readers live a simple homemade life through whole food recipes, easy organic gardening and preserving the harvest on An Oregon Cottage™. From baking bread to growing vegetables to preserving them, Jami shares the easiest ways to get things done.

She's been featured in Cottages and Bungalows, Old House Journal, and First for Women magazines as well as sites like Good Housekeeping, Huffington Post, and Apartment Therapy.

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12 Comments

  1. Hi,

    We have underfloor heating, would this technique work on top of it? Have you heard of anyone else trying it?

    Thank you for your time.
    Kind Regards,
    Sherry Lauser

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    1. I haven’t, actually, Sherry – which is kind of amazing since over the years I’ve heard of just about everything (I thought, lol). I have no idea what the heat would do to the finish. It is polyurethane which is pretty durable and heated floors don’t get that warm, do they? It might be okay, but you’d really have to do a test somewhere that you wouldn’t see but that you could leave for long enough to tell.

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