A selection of ideas for the floor: the budget exclusive own hands

As a simple and available materials to create exclusive flooring

Huge selection of floor coverings can satisfy almost any request. However, when it comes to exclusivity, the situation is complicated by the cost of solid materials. And when the desire is not supported by the financial possibilities, come to the rescue of almost improvised means, imagination and hard work. Spending a minimum of materials, resulting in possible to get the original flooring, which will become an ornament and a source of pride. For this purpose, wrapping paper, wallpaper or fabric.

Gender of paper: surface preparation

These old methods are more suitable for a durable, smooth concrete slab or base (OSB, plywood, OSB, DSP). If floors are parquet or plank, have, or putty all the joints, or flatten the surface again, plates. If necessary, also closed up all the pits, bumps are removed. Since the work will with thin materials, even small irregularities will be shown after the finish varnishing, so floor must be perfectly clean, but not by half (it is recommended to wash and vacuum to remove the smallest contamination).

The floor of the wrapping paper

Presence of stone in the decoration has always been a sign of wealth, but have an idea how to create the effect of the stone floor using wrapping paper. Doing this floor we will be just a set of tools and additional materials, as not belonging to the category of luxury or hard:

• Paper - in rolls or bags for packaging;
• Clay - PVA effective of wallpaper;
• Lac - interior finish, matt or glossy, depending on the desired effect.

To get a really spectacular floor, the paper under the lacquer should be as follows wrinkled, you can even leave for the night under the weight of that appeared characteristic creases. In the process of gluing it is straightened and the coating will smooth wrinkles but traces remain and give texture. Crumpled wrapping paper torn to pieces, tearing it to get a rough edge. If the base slab - glue diluted with water 1/3 if the concrete - 1/1. Adhesive can be coated at once both sides of the paper or on the first one, and after laying the track on the floor and on top of it. Stack pieces of wrapping paper to overlap, carefully leveling, expelling air bubbles and excess glue. Glue is applied to the hands, brush and even a spatula, to whom it is more convenient than. Overlap should be a reserve, as when dry pieces will shrink slightly, and may form a receding hairline.

Once the entire floor is covered with wrapping paper, it is left to dry (about two days). The next stage is the coating of the resulting coating - if color is desired, use a colorless parquet lacquer - if not a painting, and you can walk stain before painting. But even without additional staining the floor will inhomogeneous hue as the front side and Wrong waxed paper packaging give when handling glue different hue, and in the process of stacking necessarily alternate.

To make the floors of the wrapping paper durable and resistant to abrasion, varnish is applied in several approaches to the drying of each layer. If necessary, the intermediate layers were polished. Varnish should choose increased durability or use as a transparent topcoat self-leveling floor.

Floors made of wallpaper

The only limitation in the selection of wallpaper - they should just be paper or vinyl or non-woven for the implementation of this original idea will not work. The rest of the imagination is not limited, it may be an imitation of real wood, cutting out different rolls or whole, wallpapers give a 3D effect. Technology is no different from the previous one, only to crush the wallpaper do not need, and should not be covered with glue both sides and the floor and the back side. The layer of adhesive on the floor not only improve adhesion, but also to facilitate a smooth docking fragments. If the layers of packaging paper only increase the decorative effect at floor pasting wallpaper seam should be virtually invisible. After drying, the wallpaper they also thoroughly covered in several approaches with varnish.

If the wallpaper monophonic imitating wood coating, before lacquering or manually by the stencil can be applied to them ornament - it can be floral patterns, flowers or leaves, arranged randomly, symmetrically or forming a frame around the perimeter. To draw using gouache, diluted PVA glue will not come off preprinted pattern during application of the protective lacquer layer.

Finishing floor cloth

To create original fabric flooring used the cheapest and affordable category - calico, and a modern design is bright colors and a very large variety of patterns. When surface preparation, as in the previous methods involves the formation of strong, smooth and clean surface, the technology is slightly different gluing calico. The first thing vymeryat and cut the necessary pieces of fabric without stretching the material selected picture as the discrepancy is evident, as in wholemeal coating. Glue is applied to the back side of the fabric roller, grips provide for 10-15 minutes, after which the stack and smooth roller, sponge or a scraper. It should not remain wrinkles or bubbles. Immediately after gluing each fragment utyuzhat through cotton substrate.

To the varnish did not change the palette, the dried coating is treated with PVA glue, diluted 1/4 with water, applying a thin layer of the platen. However, if the colors are dark, protective treatment is not necessary. Calico varnishing the floor must be at least five times, and preferably all six, with careful drying of each layer (depending on the type of lacquer) and final drying may take a few days. The main condition - no drafts, otherwise it may crack. And given the peculiar smell, it makes sense to choose a modern water-based paints. They dry faster and less flavored.

As you can see, the original to make the floor with their hands quite real. But regardless of the method, the floor will need periodic refurbishing - once it is lacquered in a couple of years. Subject to the base technologies of preparation and gluing wallpaper on the floor, covered with varnish, are able to maintain the attractiveness of a long time, for decades; problems arise, rather, with the dismantling rather than a deterioration.

Another type of exclusive floor - pebble, not less interesting polished concrete floor or concrete interior. In the video on our website with their tricks divided a professional designer and a talented amateur of the Moskva look, maybe it will come in handy.

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