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January 20, 2016

Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

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In the Winter Issue of EPM, I shared my son’s vintage Soda Shop birthday party.  It was such a ridiculously fun birthday party!  We invited several of his friends over for an afternoon of classic dance tunes, Coney Dogs, and any type of ice cream sundae treat the kids could dream up!  I moved all of our dining furniture out of our great room, and styled a Soda Shop.  But, in my head, a soda shoppe is not complete without a checkerboard floor!  My husband thought I was CRAZY(er…maybe?), but he nodded and smiled when I said I wanted to do it. I knew immediately I needed to use vinyl, and Expressions Vinyl graciously sent me a roll of vinyl to cover my floors. This Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY is so simple, and my entire floor was looking fabulous in less than an hour! 
 
At the bottom of this post, I am sharing a new feature for party and DIY posts, Shop this DIY or Shop this Party with (some affiliate) links to each product to help you recreate any party! 
 
Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY
 
See how great the party looked? So fun, right?  But, I have to tell you the floors MADE this party! 
 
Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY
 
Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY
 
Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY
 
Now, see how fantastic this is?  Wait until you know how ridiculously simple it is to do!

Supplies:

Vinyl – Oracal 631 from Expressions Vinyl

Scissors or Slide Cutter

Tape Measure

Credit Card or plastic card (I used my Wilton Buttercream Icing Smoother, and then sanitized it in the dishwasher before I used it for food)

Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

This is truly so simple…I started with cleaning our ugly white ceramic tiles.  Once they were clean and dry I began cutting the vinyl to fit.  Our tiles are 1’x1′ squares, the vinyl comes on rolls that are 1′ by 30′, so, I literally cut 30 1′ squares of vinyl with my slide cutter.  Then, I pealed a corner of the backing off one vinyl square and stuck it to the tile.

Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

To avoid bubbles in the vinyl, I slid the icing smoother across the vinyl onto the tile as I pealed the backing off the vinyl. You can see a little of the paper vinyl backing in the photo.  You don’t want to peal it all off at once, or you will have a big sticky sheet of vinyl…I promise it’s easier to do it this way. Our tile has little surface “dips” and textures, but the vinyl covered them perfectly, but didn’t “hide” them, so it truly looked like, well, vinyl checkerboard floors.  

Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

Skip a tile, vinyl a tile, repeat until the floor is checkerboard.  This lasted several days in the house with kids, and our dog running around, but it pealed off the tile with no residue or damage!  Now, I know, not everyone is “lucky” enough to have builder’s grade white ceramic tile on the floor, but this works on wood floors and laminate floors (I tried it on both, but test it in an inconspicuous area before you commit to it for an entire floor), and any hard surface.  You can use any color combo, and create your own floor design!  In less than an hour, I covered a 75′ square foot area of flooring and it looked AMAZING! 

Everyday Party Magazine Simple Checkerboard Floor DIY

 

Shop this DIY:

Vinyl

Slide Cutter (this is the newer version of mine, and I will be getting it soon)

Icing Smoother (similar to the one I used)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Tags : DIY, Everyday Party Magazine, Expressions Vinyl, Minted, Soda Shop, Soda Shoppe, Vintage, Vinyl

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