"Best" wall, floor paint horse tack room?

[bdhsfz6]

I've never had much luck with floor paint in my barns and garage. It quickly shows wear spots, even with no livestock. It costs more, but I switched to stall matting. It wears like iron and is more comfortable on the feet. Might be overkill for a tack room though.

 

[Birdhunter1]

For starters your tack room is not big enough.
If I was wanting to color the osb somehow I would use a stain, it will show the random pattern of the chips in the board but it doesn't attempt to cover it like paint will. That being said a medium brownish stain will work well with it, BUT, it will also make your tack room darker. Personally I left my tack and gun room with unfinished OSB walls and it keeps it brighter. For a ceiling if you haven't put anything on it yet I'd opt for white metal. My floors I have just left as concrete, if I wanted to change anything I would just put down horse stall mats. The downside to stall mats is that the grooves hold dirt, the bad thing about a tack room is you will always have dirt on the floor, concrete sweeps easily.

 

[EddieWalker]

I would use Zinsser 123 primer on it first. A good primer is very important to a good finish, and bond to an raw material like bare wood or sheetrock. Ignore all the marketing that says their paint has primer built it to it, that was a sales gimmick to justify the massive increase in the cost of paint because they had to reformulate how paint is made to stop global warming.

For the money, I think Valspar Duramax is the best deal out there. It's sold at Lowes, and Valspar owns Sherwin Williams. Exterior paint holds up better then interior paint. I use it on my bathroom remodels all the time because of all the moisture inside a bathroom. It would work great inside a barn!!

 

[ponytug]

X2 on not painting the floor. I doubt it would hold up. You could epoxy it, but like @bdhsfz6, I would think about stall mats if you want a cover. Epoxy is very susceptible to water vapor/water lifting it from the concrete, so I would want to be very sure that there is no way for damp to migrate up, before I put epoxy down.

All the best,

Peter

 

[rgr33]

I have a chemical/tool storage shed that is about the same size as your tack room. I went with a Sherman Williams very light grey tint in order to see what exactly I was looking for.

same paint used on walls as ceiling. Floors were ultra cheap stick on tiles, to help with sweeping out every now and then. $99 wall heater to keep chems from freezing.

My only regret, was not installing more light fixtures, I badly underestimated , and now that fix is way down low on my to do list.

 

[Fuddy1952]

I'm a few hours into it, and took Eddie's advice with Zinsser bullseye 123 primer. I had to apply about 4 coats over black lettering to hide it, and caulked any nail dimples as I went along. Last night a blob of primer went directly into my eyeball! Luckily a water hydrant not far and flooded it with water a few minutes, then in house warm water/soap & eyedrops. That hurt!
OSB and toe molding I have 1/2" up off the floor, so water can't wick of the walls (water should never get in anyway).
I'm not concerned with OSB having a texture, it's a tack room not a bedroom (although it may serve as a dog house for me!).