Flooring for top floor apartment
helloholbrook
7 years ago
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Comments (6)Do yourself a humongous favour and don't go for polished concrete. It is about as practical as putting down white marble. It will show every stain and scratch and doesn't age gracefully. It needs to be sealed after it is laid (and fully dried out...) - ideally with something like clear two-part resin; and that is a very expensive finish in itself. With the underfloor heating it will probably crack, and to get it right requires a lot of depth (and weight) which you probably don't have in a flat. We have tried this many times and have learned the problems the hard way. The solution that I have arrived at is to go for large format fully vitrified porcelain tiles in a "concrete" finish. These days they come in massive sizes - 60 x 120cm and even 75 x 150cm, which give you the "slab" look and feel, and the finish is bomb proof. Typical ranges would be "Concreto" by Strata Tiles, "Composition" by Solus Tiles or by Microcement by Apavisa (Distributed by Strata). In fact Apavisa seem to make a large range of these tiles: http://www.apavisa.com/en/colecciones/?concepto=Cementos&espesor=&filtro=1 One caveat - in the large format these tiles are up to £45/sqm, but I would pay double that never to have to deal with another polished concrete floor again!...See Moresmall apartment layout help - dimensions & floor plan included!
Comments (8)I would get a smallish drop-leaf table with two comfortable dining chairs for you and your roommate's eating area. I suggest no barstools - they take up too much real estate. Guests. Ask them to bring a cushion or a folding chair because you don't have enough chairs. I lived in a very tiny place and my guests were happy enough to sit on the floor - 90 minute party, max. Serve VERY good food. Separate the living and dining areas by color/style and/or an area rug for the living room that will compliment your furniture. Decorators siggest that the front legs of living room furniture be placed on the rug if the rug is too small to fit under all of the furniture. If you get a sisal rug, be sure to use a rug pad. Sisal can be like sandpaper on the wood finish of your floors. I would NOT put a rug in the kitchen. Use washable foot fatigue rubber mats instead. Best wishes....See MoreTop Floor Flat Saniflo Query
Comments (2)I totally understand your pain - we had a saniflo a few years ago and they are notorious for going wrong and being noisy. They're not great to live with. My guess is the en suite and saniflo were installed by a previous owner so that this flat could be inhabited more easily by two "young professional" renters, as opposed to a family who would probably be happier to share a bathroom. So the first thing to consider is your circumstances - are you happy to share a bathroom with the occupier of the other bedroom (you've said it's a spare room for now but might you want to rent it out at any stage)? And the second thing to consider is whether you feel you're happy to lose the potential value in having a second bathroom - ie how long do you intend to live in this flat. If you might move on relatively soon, it would possibly make more sense to keep the en suite because you'll be more focused on short term returns on your investment. If you think you'll be there for several years, you'll be more focused on the livability of the property and making it work for your personal circumstances. Well I would be anyway :) If you're in that second category, it might make sense just to get rid of the en suite and either take down the walls to make the bedroom bigger (an office nook, perhaps, which still makes use of the light in the room as no wall between), or use the space as a walk-in closet. Good storage is a lovely luxury and you might find that more useful than the en suite....See MoreJapandi flooring for a 80sqm apartment
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