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Artisan Terry Maiche demonstrates an inexpensive way to dress up a floor with paint: spattering. Once the paint has completely dried, polyurethane will be applied to give the floor a tough finish.

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" This is just really spectacular, I think. And Terry"

" Thank----thank you."

" you've done a fabulous job for it."

" Thank you very much."

" I mean, it is such a neat idea to spatter paint right over the plywood instead of buying vinyl floor."

" Uhm, yeah, it looks so vinyl."

" How did you get started?"

" Uhm, well first, we painted the floor with the green enamel duct tape and then we rolled and we rolled it on."

" Uhm."

" And when it dried for a couple of days and then we started spattering paint."

" Now, what fascinates me is all the color to it. Did you----could you go with any dark color for the base? Could it be black or dark gray?"

" Uhm, well because of the fabric that's gonna be used in this room----"

" Aha."

" We choose the dark green and it's [unk]."

" Okay, so there is logic, got it."

" Uhm."

" And what about the other colors? They're also into fabric?"

" Yes, they are and we used the piece of light green and we used the salmon colors----"

" Aha."

" Into this and we have the dark brown, which we'd used just into the dark color [unk]."

" Sure, sure. Why would I never have dreamt of using a dark brown, but I guess it all worked really---- go ahead and show us how you do it?"

" Okay."

" I'll get out of the way in case it's really messy."

" Alright."

" Uhm, while I'm just spattering the paint and hitting it lightly for the [unk] and it's just it doesn't matter what kind of shapes come out and just----"

" Squiggles and dots."

" Right. And you wanted it stick, so you'll----we're using the thick paint."

" Aha. It is an oil-based paint again, right?"

" Yes, it is. And we're gonna be on to salmon."

" So, in each area that you're working in, you'll spatter all 3 colors at once?"

" Right. And then in that way we can use the whole floor and you don't have to wait for it to dry. You could go along."

" You have to let it dry first for a couple days longer after you do all the spattering?"

" Yes, we do."

" And of course what we did was we covered the entire floor here in plywoods 'coz you know, the old shabby shed had a lousy set of planks here that we had to cover and what we'll do is we'll put 2 or 3 coats of polyurethane right over this artwork and we'll have a real tough finish. Thanks a lot Terry."

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