Designer Marguerite Rodgers took inspiration from the folk art of Pennsylvania Dutch and Colonial designs when she chose a classic black-and-white checkerboard pattern for this painted floor.

How fun is this look? Go bold in the living room by painting your wood floor in a checkerboard pattern. Offset the black and ...

Since painting a floor may seem like a bold (and even a little ... Play with solids and patterns “Black, white, and tan always work,” says Redd, but the designer definitely doesn’t shy ...

Carol Charny, a Larchmont, N.Y.-based interior designer, says that painting floors requires a bit of throwing caution to the wind. In the home interiors shop she used to own, Charny used black and ...