Congratulations on buying your apartment!
Now, the only thing separating you from moving in is the renovation, and if you want to save money on renovating an apartment in a new building, we'll tell you how.
Proper layout.
Despite the variety of existing design solutions with rounded room corners, curved partition shapes, and non-standard elements, for a more economical apartment renovation, classic square or rectangular room shapes are suitable.
They are easier to finish, it's simpler to calculate the amount of needed materials (cement, sand, plaster, wallpaper, etc.), and with a proper layout, you can act as foreman, designer, and executor of the work.
Renovation style.
Currently, there are trendy directions in developer apartment renovation that will allow you to do it quickly and economically.
These styles include minimalism, loft, and Scandinavian style.
With such renovations you can:
- When buying an apartment in a new building with brick walls, leave them in their original state. All you need to do is prime the walls.
- In an apartment with concrete walls — seal visible cracks and cover the wall with a special solution that deeply penetrates, strengthens the top layer, and helps prevent concrete dust from being released during operation. You can also apply lacquer on top.
- Wallpaper the walls with newspapers in a random order or in geometric order and coat with lacquer.
- You can leave the ceilings concrete, as they were when you bought the apartment in a new building, and coat them with lacquer. In this case, even the visible electrical wiring under the ceiling will look harmonious.
- Poured concrete floors instead of tiles are an excellent way to save money on renovating an apartment in a new building. This type of flooring imitates a concrete floor, has no seams, feels pleasant to the touch, and its surface is warmer than plain concrete. Poured floors come in solid colors and with patterns. They are cheaper than tiles or laminate, and visually, in a loft-style apartment, they look stylish.
Materials used.
Sand, cement, various types of mixes, putty, plaster, etc. — these types of materials from domestic producers are usually cheaper than foreign ones.
Often in construction hypermarkets, materials are sold at a discount, the batches of which are ending and are not planned to be replenished in the near future. These include, for example, tiles and wallpaper.
You can choose several types of tiles or wallpaper at a discount and then beautifully combine them within one room (kitchen, bathroom, bedroom, living room).
By the way, kitchen tiles can be replaced with glass surfaces or painted, especially relevant for the backsplash.
Kitchen floor tiles can be replaced with linoleum. It is low-maintenance in care and looks good.
In the bathroom, instead of tiles on the walls, you can use a cheaper sheet mirror or wallpaper the bathroom with inexpensive wallpaper, which after that should be coated with lacquer.
If you still want to lay tiles in the bathroom, then to make it more economical, for the walls you can use inexpensive single-color tiles, and for the floor — accent tiles.
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