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

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.

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 ...

While painting floors can be fairly straightforward ... Staub chose a more restrained scheme of black risers and white treads. Combined with yellow walls, the painted flight “gives the space ...

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 ...