Flooring question?
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Painting is always a great option. A good porch and floor paint will wear really well and you can be really creative and make it look like tile. I saw this show once where they used regular old plywood and cut them into 2ft x 2ft squares and screwed them onto the floor at the four corners with fairly large black screws that were countersunk in to the wood. They made sure that the grain of the plywood was alternating so that if you were looking at it no two were ever laying in the same direction. They varathaned it really good, and it looked really great.
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My friend put down 3/4 inch plywood (Tongue & Groove) and put lines in it with a router and a black sharpie. Then coated it with polyurethane. Looks good.
My friend put down 3/4 inch plywood (Tongue & Groove) and put lines in it with a router and a black sharpie. Then coated it with polyurethane. Looks good.
Lay down some MDF sheets and paint a Kandinsky. Now that's cool!
my friend showed me to just paint the floor, you can make patterns if you would like, then polyurethane the heck out of it
How tight is the budget, and how big the room? Dollar stores carry low grade laminate tile for a buck each, and Family Dollar stores carry them by the box $10 a box and it covers 12 sq ft. Also if u can afford the latch hook fabric from fabric stores you can use cast off clothing to make a rug. Cut the clothing into strips, put a slip knot in one end of a strip then "chain" it thru each hole. (Like you would make a crochet chain but slip latch hook thru fabric first on each stitch.) The pattern depends on the colors of fabric, and whether you go side to side or start in the middle and circle out. When you get to the end of fabric piece, either sew another on or pull the one you have finished thru last chain on wrong side and begin again with next piece. I used old jeans for mine, and made runners for around my bed.
cover in dirt and grow your garden in doors.