Cheap Temporary Flooring Solutions

Erica puisis is a writer specializing in interior design.

Cheap temporary flooring solutions.

An unfinished basement with its concrete floor and exposed joists may seem dreary and cold. It is a cheap thin plywood. Out of the budget 2. Too permanent or 3.

Seems many folks have gone with cheap vinyl flooring both the roll out kind and tile kind and used removable adhesives to adhere them to their terrible rental home floors. She writes about home products for the spruce and has also contributed to techdigg and smart home solver. Although the tile is cheap and can be used for temporary flooring needs it is actually made to last. Ideally i wanted flooring that would be under 1 per square foot and could be something i might potentially reuse.

The biggest expense this a tile floor isn t the material but the labor. Click in engineered wood flooring has many advantages for temporary. After researching various options that wouldn t make my landlord cringe we re renters i realized that they were all 1. Laminate flooring laminate is one of the least expensive choices for residential flooring because it s been around for so long there are many different avenues to try.

But in reality it is an enormous blank canvas just waiting for your inspired ideas and artistic vision. Doing something anything to our dated kitchen and mudroom linoleum floors has been on my mind lately. Since you re looking at cheap basement flooring options your choices largely will be limited to glazed ceramic tile but you might also find some porcelain tile that fits your budget. So tile is not a cheap flooring option unless you are doing the work yourself.

Bottle caps leather belts and pennies are just a few of the unusual materials that creative do it yourselfers have incorporated in these cheap flooring ideas. When it comes to cheap flooring ideas laminate is a good choice for people who are hard on floors so if you have children and pets it s a smart selection. Learn about the spruce s editorial process. For temporary use it will be wise to use a layer of lauan plywood first.

This is so you can just dispose of the whole floor after the event. Our plan is to eventually run the hardwoods into the. Temporary vinyl flooring check out both the idea in the post a renter s solution for ugly flooring as well as the comments. Don t balk at this just yet.

While our the rest of our house has beautiful white oak hardwoods our kitchen and mudroom were a later addition that was finished off with a very ugly white linoleum. Here s what i found and how i made my rental flooring dreams come true under budget.