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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 FAQĀ 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 Cottageā„¢. 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. Congrats on all the action your paper flooring how-to video has garnered including being picked up by a national magazine! We also live in the Pacific NW, across the border that the rain doesn’t acknowledge. We have carpet at the entryway … Now that’s a disgusting carpet!

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  2. How pet friendly is the brown paper flooring?? I’m thinking this would be awesome in the kids bed rooms and the “pet room”.

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    1. I don’t have personal experience with this floor and pets, but I have had readers tell me it holds up well to them. Plus it’s easy to fix if something does happen.

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  3. Hi Jami,

    You’re awesome!! I left my husband, bought a house and a hydrographics business, all within 4 months. So, I kinda ran out of cash but am extremely artistic and fairly resourceful; I went online yesterday looking for cheaper solutions than buying flooring for my basement ā€¦ found your site and now have a plan!

    Thank you so much!

    Lynn šŸ˜€

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