How do you paint and distress a wooden floor?

i have sanded it down today... do i just put emulsion( white) on it and sand it again or do i water the paint down with something...then sand it...help required..the missus wants it done!!!How do you paint and distress a wooden floor?
the easiest way is to do a white wash. Use a high quality exterior water based paint. Thin it with water about 50%. 2 quarts of paint to 1 quart of water. paint on in direction of grain and wipe off with a clean damp rag before it dries. Experiment a little bit on a piece of wood you have lying around.How do you paint and distress a wooden floor?
wow! what a job and the best of luck there mate!
Yep, just emulsion the floor then get your wife to shout at it for a few days. That should really distress it!
try using PATINA its the same effect you see on distressed kitchen cupboards
Being a painter(where the job has to be a perfect finish with an even coat) this is hard for me to figure, but paint the floor, let it dry and then sand the high edges is my guess.


Distressing is kind of an excuse for not doing a good paint job to begin with(the way I see it)
the best way to do the job you want, is to emulsion the floor with the colour of your choice. do small areas at a time and then wipe the paint off. you will find that it wil rub off in different thicknesses and leave the grain of the wood showing through and some of the paint on the floor. when this is dry the best thing to do is varnish your floor to seal the paint in and leave a finish thats easy to clean. plus continous foot traffic over emulsion only will wear the paint excesively. hope this helps
if you want it distressed beat us up with the back of a hammer, chain, screw drivers. It just depends on how much you want it distressed. paint it, then sand it again in different sections.
what i normally do is apply a light colour first then followed by a darker colour (your choice)then when dry rub the whole floor with wire wool to distress it then acrylic varnish on top

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