Flooring dilemma
We are doing some work on the kitchen, lounge dining area to take down a couple of walls and make it into one big open space. I would love to have engineered timber floors throughout the space but the costs are just coming back too high. So i was after some advice on what else to use, tiles would be too costly as well partly as we have a very rough concrete floor so it will take quite a bit of labour and material to get it levelish. If we do have to end up going with carpet in the main area and something else in the kitchen where would you stop and start?
Any thoughts gratefully received.
This is a plan of the new area
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5 years agolast modified: 5 years agoAll floor coverings need a fairly good, and level base, so it really depends on just how rough the existing concrete slab is. There is no point in wasting money on a new floor if it is going to show the unevenness of the slab.
I would use your remaining budget to level off the roughness, which may involve grinding back concrete, and/or using a levelling compound. Then cover the whole lot with a durable paving paint until you can afford the floor you want to live with forever.
For an awkwardly shaped space like that, I would tile the whole area to provide the most flexibility for furniture arrangements and living. Nothing worse than a joint between different floor finishes in an open plan area.
Saunders Street, Mosman Park · More InfoThe hexagonal floor tile in this photo would work beautifully with your hexagonal floor plan as it is non-directional, and would fit in very neatly with the geometry of the architecture.
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