We are in the middle of some "interim" renos at the moment. I simply can't live with my kitchen/bathroom the way they are any longer, but our big renos aren't planned for at least another 5 years. I can't see myself putting up with a half sized bath and 60 year old (no exaggeration...) oven for that much longer. So. Interim renos.
So I'm looking for recommendations for the cheapest possible floor coverings (and not too hard to tear up in 5 years time) for kitchen and bathroom. I thought this would be lino, but apparently this is more $$ than carpet?! Which surprised me.
What is your current flooring? What is underneath? If you have good floor boards under there, then I suggest just doing a quick sand to smooth and a good varnish or oiling. No need to sand till perfect, just to get them nice under foot. That is what we did in our lounge as I was so fed up with the carpet.
Have you checked out Bunnings for some of their cheaper flooring?
I put lino down in our garage when I converted it to a playroom and I found that some places were waaay more expensive than others for the same stuff. I also found that if you are not overly fussy about the lino you put down, then they can sometimes have a range they are trying to get rid of and it is way cheaper than going for current lines. We got 36 square metres of lino for about $400 and it is a cushiony lino with a nice wood finish. It was a line they didn't want to run anymore so it was quite cheap comparatively. Shop around, you might be surprised what you can find ... that's if you don't have wood floor like what the others have suggested because I reckon that would definitely be the way to go if you can do that
We are also doing some cheap reno's as we don't will be leaving here in a few years. So we are doing things up easiest way we can to make a difference etc. Can't help with the bathroom, but in our hallway, nursery & soon in our kitchen we used cheap version of floating floorboards that "click together". We got them on sale for less than $25per square metre. Our floorboards under the lino were too ruined. The best thing about it is it's cheaper, & the "click together" style of them means you put the floor in yourself, saving you the $$$ of paying someone to do it for you. We did a large hallway & a nursery for less around $800. I think that's pretty good for 2 rooms considering it was about $650 just for the carpet in DS room. I would think you would be able to get it from bunnings cheap also, we got ours at a flooring shop.
Erin - does that click together flooring come up and go back down easily because that might be another solution for saving - depending on what flooring you want, Tish, you could do the click together flooring, pull it up when you need to renovate and relay it.
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