Home Improvement

Moved in with le bf in April.

The house is a double storey low cost terrace house, so we don't have a back door, literally.
You imagine the usual terrace house, then that usual terrace house is cut in half, and the back door of that usual terrace house is the front door of another house. Macam townhouse but we're connected back-to-back not upstairs-and-downstairs lah. Anyway, you don't care, so let's move on.

We stay at Bertam area of Kepala Batas, which has a LOT of Taman. The area is quiet me like-y. One of the best thing about this move is that, le bf opens a furniture store, so our house was furnished pretty quickly with supplier-priced furnitures haha! And the quality is good too yay!

However, the down side about low cost housing is that, the flooring is cement floor. You know, like the floor in your classroom. My tolerance of things is quite high but not this one.



The thing about cement floor is that, no matter how many times you mop the floor, it feels dusty after 5 minutes of mopping it. To mop until it shines and smooth takes years that I refuse to do. So we looked for flooring options that is cheap (because owner doesn't want to bear it).

Owner already did a lot of things though, like the car porch, the awning, the tiling for downstairs, a mini store room, and I thought she would include the tiling for upstairs too but it seems they overbudget, so OK lah fine we do it ourselves.

At first, we were considering the plastic mat that is often used in hostel (and the room I rented years ago), but the disadvantages quickly discouraged me. Then we found this self adhesive vinyl flooring that looked amazing! The price for these flooring is about RM 70-80, depending on the thickness. We first bought the 45sqft 2.0mm thickness ones at RM85.90, and the second batch we got was 54sqft 1.8mm at RM74.90.

We have three rooms in the house, all upstairs, and cemented (as well as the stairs). We started applying it on the small room for testing and it was great! Then we bought two more boxes for the master bedroom.


Sing kept procrastinating so I decided to do it myself. All you need is a bucket of water with cloth (to clean the floor before applying), marker pen, ruler, cutting knife or scissors (I find scissors is better in cutting the pieces) and patience.


I skipped the floor under the bed because the bed is too damn heavy and I was lazy as well lah. This work really tests your patience and the way you applied it to prevent gaps between the pieces. It took me about 4 hours to finish applying this 115sqft room. Sing miscalculated the size of the room though, so if I were to apply the whole room including underneath the bed, two boxes of flooring wouldn't be enough -_-



Completed!
Finally, happy to walk into the room without having to tip toe and straight jump onto the bed.

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