Repair savings in 2023-2024

Hi, I’m Olga, art director of the Aquarius company. In this article, I will tell you how to replace expensive decoration options with more budget analogues so that the repair is high -quality and inexpensive.

Content:

1. Options for the kitchen-living room
   1. Laminate instead of parquet
   2. Built -in ceiling lighting instead of track
   3. Stretch ceiling instead of drywall
2. Options for the bedroom
   1. PVC plinth instead of a polymer
   2. Plasterboard partition instead of a gas block
   3. Non -woven wallpaper instead of paint
3. Bathroom options
   1. Metal corner instead of tiles
   2. Standard porcelain stoneware instead of a large format

Options for the kitchen-living room

Laminate instead of parquet

Parquet is well suited as a flooring for the living room. It consists of several layers of wood. The lower and middle layer of coniferous wood. The front layer of wood of valuable species. The parquet is chosen for what it is made of natural wood, warm to the touch, and in winter you can walk in the room without slippers. Parquet is difficult to scratch and it is difficult to leave the chip on it. It is resistant to mechanical loads. The parquet has 2 significant drawbacks – it is afraid of moisture and is expensive. The value of the parquet starts from 3000 rubles per square meter.

If the client wants a floor under a tree, but he has a limited budget, we suggest using a laminate. Outwardly, the laminate looks like parquet. The laminate is based on the multilayer structure. It consists of a laminated coating, a layer of decorative paper, a wood -fiber slab and a stabilizing layer.

If it is very simplified, then a laminate is a stove made of fine chips covered with a film. Therefore, it is not as durable as parquet. It can scratch from the rearrangement of furniture or from walking in heels. Due to its high density, the laminate is colder than the parquet by several degrees, but the same warm. In winter, you can also walk on it without slippers. Visually, the laminate is very similar to the parquet, it can only be distinguished by the touch. Therefore, a laminate is a great cheaper alternative to a parquet.

By the way: Laminate is 31, 32 and 33 classes. The higher the figure, the stronger the material. The laminate of the 33rd grade costs almost like a parquet, but he is not afraid of heels, rearrangements of furniture and other scratches. Such a laminate is even stronger than the parquet. It can be safely used in rooms with a high load: in the kitchen, corridor and living room.

When using the laminate, you can save not only on the material, but also at work.

You can compare the approximate cost of work and material in the table:

Built -in ceiling lighting instead of track

Track lighting looks modern. Metal guides are attached to the ceiling, and lamps are attached to them. With such lighting, you can move the lamps on the ceiling and adjust the angle of inclination.

In the system, you can use various lamps that may differ in design and power. Using tracks, you can highlight a certain zone in the room.

Repair of a two -room apartment 122 m2 – all photos

As practice shows, the owners of track lighting very rarely adjust the angle of the lamp tilt or move the lamps from place to place. These functions of track lamps are not particularly important, customers choose them due to design.

Design of a two -room apartment 72 m2 – all photos

If the room needs simple and high -quality light, and the design of the lamps does not matter, then track lighting can be replaced with built -in ceiling lighting. For example, docketing lamps JX 53.

In the interior, point lighting looks like this:

Repair of a three -room apartment 70 m2 – all photos

You can compare the approximate cost of work and material in the table:

By the way: An alternative to track lighting can be light lines on the ceiling. Visually looks as stylish as tracks, but such light is much cheaper. One meter of light line with material and work costs about 900 rubles.

Repair of a two -room apartment 79 m2 – all photos

Stretch ceiling instead of drywall

Plasterboard ceiling is a solution that customers who want to make the ceiling soundproofing, multi -level ceiling or if you need to install stucco molding in the apartment.

Big apartment design 330 m2 – all photos

If you make a single -level ceiling, you can use stretch. It is cheaper and its installation takes less time compared to drywall.

Repair of a one -room apartment 70 m2 – all photos

Even modern stretch ceilings can be combined with both track and built -in ceiling lighting. This is convenient if the client decides to make different lights in the room.

Design of one -room apartment 55 m2 – all photos

Matte stretch visually similar to drywall ceiling.

You can compare the approximate cost of work and materials in the table:

Bedroom decoration options

PVC plinth instead of a polymer

If the client wants a cheaper repair, I advise you to use PVC plinths, not a polymer.

Polymer skirting boards are made of foamed polystyrene. They cost more than PVC skirting boards, and they need even walls with a difference of less than 3 mm per square meter. If the client has a decoration of the apartment from the developer, the walls are usually not so even, and they have to be additionally equal to the skirting board, and this is extra costs.

PVC skirting boards is made of durable plastic, it is easily bending and can hide all the irregularities of the wall.

You can see the approximate difference in the cost of work and material in the table:

Plasterboard partition instead of a gas block

In the process of repair, sometimes there is a need to make additional partitions in the apartment. For example, if you need to make a dressing room in the bedroom.

Repair of a three -room apartment 70 m2 – all photos

An expensive option is a partition from a foam block. More optimal – drywall partition.

You can read more about the types of partitions in the apartment in our article.

Contrary to popular belief, drywall partitions are strong. Thanks to the metal frame, they will not budge if they rely on them. People fear that a screw cannot be twisted in drywall to hang a picture. However, this problem can be solved if you use solid drywall.

The approximate cost of the partition for the finish is indicated in the table:

Non -woven wallpaper instead of paint

Paint as a material for wall decoration can sometimes cost cheaper than wallpaper. However, for painting, expensive preparation of the surface of the wall is needed. As a result, dyeing the walls comes out much more expensive than gluing wallpaper.

Design of one -room apartment 55 m2 – all photos

Read more about materials for wall decoration in our article.

If you need to make budget, it is better to use non -woven wallpaper. These are wallpapers, which include not only paper, but also synthetic fibers. Such wallpapers are much denser than paper. The density of the material allows you to hide the irregularities of the walls and do wet cleaning.

Repair of a one -room apartment 62 m2 – all photos

You can compare the approximate cost of the material and work in the table:

Bathroom options

Metal corner instead of tiles

In modern designs, customers want the angles in the bathroom to be from porcelain tile, without additional corners of metal or plastic. To do this, the tile is cut at 45 degrees and put the joint in the joint.

Working with tiles is expensive, as it requires complex equipment and a certain level of tile mastery. Another tile should be of high quality, since the poor -quality can roll up when you do it.

Repair of a two -room apartment 122 m2 – all photos

It is better not to make a corner of porcelain stoneware, but to use a metal corner. He will protect against chips of tiles. If the angle is accidentally hooked with furniture or hit it, then the porcelain tile will remain intact.

By the way, some customers refuse tiles. They believe that the sharp corners of the tiles are injured. Therefore, they prefer to use metal corners that make the corners less sharp.

Making a corner from porcelain tiles will cost about 1300 rubles per linear meter. The metal corner can be installed for 470 rubles per linear meter.

Standard porcelain stoneware instead of a large format

Clients want to use large -format porcelain stoneware, because with its help you can make a floor or wall with a minimum number of seams. The surface is smooth and uniform.

Design of one -room apartment 55 m2 – all photos

Porcelain stoneware is considered a large format in size of more than 1.44 square meters. One plate can be 1 by 3 meters.

Such porcelain tiles are difficult to transport and lay on the surface. The minus is that if a chip or crack appears on such tiles, it will be much more expensive to change it to a new one than in the case of standard porcelain tiles.

If you need to make a finish in a more budget version, it is better to use standard porcelain tiles in size up to 600 by 600 mm.

The approximate cost of the material and work can be viewed in the table:

Conclusions

To make repairs cheaper, you need to use a laminate instead of a parquet, built -in lamps instead of track lighting. No need to make a gypsum cardboard ceiling, it is better for a stretch. It is worth abandoning polymer skirting boards in favor of PVC skirting boards. Flosely wallpaper is best used instead of paint. In the bathroom, angles should be made using a metal corner, not tiles. Use standard porcelain stoneware instead of a large format.