Project facts

LITTLE ROCK — Creating the Curran Hall floor cloth was a big project.

Size:

12 by 42 feet, 504 square feet.

Weight:

300 pounds.

Amount of paint:

30 gallons of primer, two gallons of paint for base coat, three gallons of paint for decorative pattern, seven gallons of polyurethane varnish.

Decorative elements include:

eight different stencil designs; eight wood-graining steps per square inch; nine rows of wood squares in the cloth’s width, 33 rows in the cloth’s length; more than 600 repeats of the central design requiring 1,800 separate stencil applications.