My kitchen floor is vinyl tiles. I can't afford a new floor right now. Any suggestions for covering? Or refurbishing?
By mtm
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Try going to the "This Old House" website and see if they have any suggestions on revitalizing an old vinyl floor. Maybe it could be painted. But if it's vintage, it might be best to preserve it in some way and simply do a cover-up for now... You could paint DIY. Use a long handle on your roller. You may have to use a primer first coat on vinyl. Porch & Floor paint is designed for floors.
I have vinyl flooring which has chunks out of it here and there. I plan to remove mine and just paint the floor. I plan to paint it to look like rocks. However, this costs money also. But I did think about cutting out sections of it in damaged areas and just adding in new agreeable looking inexpensive stick-on tiles (yours would be easy since you have stick-on anyway, mine is "sheet") (a patchwork look).
Paint! I "fixed" mine almost 20 years ago and it still looks awesome and recently had more compliments on it. My daughter even suggested I should offer to do others as a business. I have a smaller galley style kitchen so the area gets a lot of wear, too. What I did was strip off all old wax and rinse well, dried thoroughly and then painted with a high gloss deck enamel in blue (my kitchen is all white with blue accents) then after it had dried well I did a white spatter pattern on it.
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