I want to redo my basement but getting new carpet is so expensive! Right now I have a really ugly green carpet with red and light yellowish squares. My kids want to make it in to a more loungey basement so the carpet is gonna be really hard to work with. Is there a much cheaper alternative to carpet or even any ideas as to how we can blend it in or make it work? We really dont want to use the colors in the carpet for anything in the basement. The basement is very very big so even semi-cheap things might be expensive. Thank you!
Click faux hardwood is really cheap, and looks very nice. Its the alternative to vinyl, cost comparitively the same. Looks as nice. Colored concrete is cheap also, lasts for decades. But you can do a diy job on the faux hardwood lumber, w/ the concrete I don't know.
Throw out the old carpet, scrub the concrete floor, paint the floor with a paint formulated for concrete. Pick a happy color. Then look for some inexpensive area rugs, try thrift stores.
That flooring for garages, called garage flooring tile, from Lowe's or Home Depot would be good for a basement. I think it's plastic; not sure though. If the floor is concrete, painting it would be a cheap option, and just add some inexpensive area rugs.
Unless you install some thing yourself such as carpet squares , laminate ,vinyl tile squares, on the average when you have some one install flooring, carpet is one of the cheapest flooring materials. So to keep costs in check pick some thing you can do and for a basement carpet of some kind is the warmest. So consider carpet squares and do it yourself. Sheet vinyl isn t a DIY er job but vinyl squares is a DIY er job and use area rugs for the kids. Any questions you can e mail me through my avatar.. GL
i like to go with just a painted concrete floor, then you don't have the headache of recplacing carpet/laminate floor if your basement floods, unless you have tons of money and can afford nature stone. i know you said you don't have the money tho.
