Inexpensive Flooring Ideas

If you're a DIYer working to a tight budget, you'll be looking for cheap flooring ideas. You'll be surprised at how even cheap flooring ideas can help to transform the look of your home.

While hardwood flooring and carpets look great on your floor, they are very expensive. This is where cheap flooring ideas come in. There are lots of different cheap flooring ideas, many of which are also easy to maintain. With a bit of initiative, you can make your floor look good without having to spend a lot of money.

So what are the top cheap flooring ideas available to you as a DIYer? Below we list cheap flooring ideas that are as attractive as they are inexpensive.

One of the most popular of these cheap flooring ideas is to visit a carpet store and ask them if they can give you any some samples for free. A patchwork carpet made out of free sample tiles can look great and as you walk across it you'll have the satisfaction of knowing that it hasn't cost you a penny.

Amongst other popular cheap flooring ideas is bamboo. Although it is technically a grass, bamboo will replicate the look of a wooden floor. Strand woven bamboo flooring which is made by sticking bamboo pieces together with glue gives an even more natural look as it bring out the individual lines of bamboo grass. Typically you can buy bamboo flooring for about half the price of wood. This is because bamboo takes 3-7 years to grow compared to 50-120 years for hardwood.

Ceramic tiles are great if you are on a tight budget, especially for basement flooring. Not only are they cheap, like all tiled floors they are very easy to clean. Ceramic tiles in your bathroom should be white or another similar plain colour but elsewhere in the house why not mix and match to give the other rooms an interesting look. You could even create a mosaic using some differently coloured tiles.

Other cheap flooring ideas include unfinished concrete, cork tiles, peel and stick floor tiles and rugs in various colours and textures.