Own housing periodically requires updating. The difficulties associated with this are simple and understandable - often it's just a lack of budget. In addition, the lack of knowledge about a particular technology makes one think about inviting specialists. Nevertheless the best way save money on apartment renovation - prefer a budget finish to an expensive one and do some of the work yourself.

Budget repair rules

Before deciding on the implementation of a budget apartment renovation with your own hands, you should familiarize yourself with the upcoming difficulties that are sure to arise at many stages of work. What are they:

1. Apartment owners must have sufficient time for budget repairs. Especially if there is no experience in laying communication wiring,. Repair work timed to coincide with a vacation or set aside special days for this. Spontaneity harms the final result and delays the process. Hurry up - make people laugh!
2. Important right assess the situation apartment before renovation. Budget painting will not solve problems with the floor and walls, if either the plaster is in a deplorable state. The same applies to communication wiring. It’s not worth counting on a cheap cost of budget repairs in an apartment with your own hands. Decorative inexpensive materials will be a rational purchase if rough finish made with high quality.
3. Required price monitoring and an assortment of nearby hardware stores. The latter is important, since the cost of delivery sometimes results in an impressive amount. You should not get carried away with very cheap goods - a construction field, an unplowed field for fakes.
4. Compose carefully estimate. This will save you from overspending material and waste, respectively.
5. And the last thing - you can not save on generally dangerous communications. Gas and electrical equipment is installed exclusively by specialists of city services. Otherwise, the lesser evil is non-working devices, the greater is the misfortunes associated with this.

Where to begin?

So, having decided on an independent budgetary apartment renovation, having estimated their own strengths and means, they begin to work. Here is an algorithm of actions, following which time is spent rationally:

• The desired plan rooms. The position of communications depends on it -, electrical sockets. If you like, the space is divided into - recreation, active life.
• Removing old coatings from all surfaces - floors, walls, ceilings. If windows and doors will not be changed, then they are also cleaned for the upcoming finish. To work, you will need a perforator, dissolving liquids, spatulas - depending on the raw materials to be dismantled. It is recommended to immediately impregnate the walls with antiseptics - mold is not uncommon in apartments, moreover, such an opportunity is not foreseen anymore.
• Laying a new concrete rough coupler on the floor - without it it is impossible to arrange an even flooring, qualitatively .
• satisfied communications- electrical wiring hidden in the walls, sockets and cartridges are brought to the surface. Install plastic plumbing and sewer pipes changing the heating system. If the plan provides for - they arrange frames for plasterboard partitions.

Now the room has taken on the appearance of a rough finish. Solutions vary depending on the previous condition of the apartment. It is important to keep in mind that for the duration of the repair, residents must be able to "alternate airfield" for at least a month. Especially when the apartment is small.

Stages of budget repair

Now the prepared apartment is trimmed with inexpensive materials. For floor coverings choose boards, multilayer plywood - it is environmentally friendly, inexpensive and beautiful, with appropriate processing. In wet rooms, tiles are indispensable - consider substandard or battle offered in stores. It is always inexpensive or even free.

For walls - traditional wallpaper or painting. Ceilings are whitewashed and painted. Attaches unusual view city ​​apartment - drywall. They make portals, partitions from it. Doors and windows are painted and subjected to many design techniques - aged, decorated with frosted or mosaic glass inserts. So the work begins:

• It is generally accepted that finishing starts from the ceiling. This is not true, since in the future the construction dust rising up will settle on it. Removing it later becomes problematic. Therefore, start with the walls or the floor.
• Vertical surfaces - walls, window slopes and the ceiling needs to be leveled. In the future, they will allow you to perfectly evenly cover the area with wallpaper or paint without visible differences. For work, a base and finishing mixture is required.
• The floor is poured with a finishing screed, having previously installed beacons and a reinforcing mesh. The setting time depends on the thickness and consistency of the mortar. You can use the finished surface only after 3-4 weeks.
• They determine the level for installing the lag - a step of no more than 60 cm. For plywood even less - up to 45 cm + transverse crate. Lay the boards, knocking down to each other, without gaps. For plywood, flooring is produced in a checkerboard pattern.
• Paint the walls or wallpaper them. The most budget options are paper thin ones. But the quality is right too. Try to make your own - it requires an inexpensive finishing mix and tools to create a pattern or texture. For example, a “bark beetle” will turn out by smoothing the solution with a grater wrapped in coarse emery cloth. An interesting option is with the help of a film. Spectacular strokes are created with an ordinary spatula. After drying, the walls are tinted and fixed with acrylic varnish - this will make them spectacular.
• The turn has come. High-quality whitewashing is no less relevant than others decorative materials. If you don’t want everyday life, then making a stretch ceiling with your own hands without using special equipment is also budgetary. Mounting a slatted ceiling made of mirrored strips will not only give the effect to the room, but also visually expand it.
• Lastly, paint or cycle the floor. The last option will emphasize the beauty of the tree.

Repair completed. It remains to give the room a finished look - install, arrange furniture, lay carpets. Sit on a soft sofa and calculate how much beauty cost you without the participation of professional craftsmen.

We bring to your attention options for budget repairs - before and after photos. Perhaps among them will come across worthy of repetition.

Repairs never end, but interior renovation can be fun and profitable.

Upgrade doors

Interior doors can completely change the interior. Their cost is the most diverse, and often the doors “eat up” half of the budget spent on renovating a room. There are especially many problems with their installation, because for this you need to either determine the dimensions very accurately and engage in independent work, or call the masters, whose work is more expensive than the door itself.

The way out is fantasy and hand-made. Don't buy a door, make a new one out of an old one.

Remove first old paint(if the door has been painted). This is done using liquid glass, that is, a solution of sodium silicate in water. If they lubricate the old paint, after drying, the solution will peel off along with it. You can also use a blowtorch or blow dryer to heat up and peel off the paint layer. These methods require more time than working with a grinder and a brush, but there is less dust and debris from them. If dents and chips are found on the door, a wood primer will help you.

The same methods will help to update the old wooden frames windows.

A smooth and clean structure can be turned into decorative element: paint, wallpaper, plaster, lay out with mosaics, sheathe with fabric. Choose to your taste.

Re-paste the wallpaper

The room does not have to be wallpaper of the same color and texture. They can be combined, so much so that the result will look real. design solution. If you take a product from the leftovers for a combination, then the savings will come out rather big, especially if you need to arrange a small room.

If you don't have the time or inclination to mess around with changes to the whole room, re-paste the wallpaper on just one wall. Fast and unusual.

By doing it in stages, you can save money. Large construction hypermarkets in summer and autumn make big discounts and hold special promotions. For example, in August at OBI, you can save up to 40% when buying basic repair items: laminate, tiles, power tools, paint, plumbing. And with a one-time purchase of more than 10,000 rubles, the client receives an OBI Club card, which gives the right to a 5% discount and advantageous individual offers until the end of the year.

Repaint old furniture

You can change an old wardrobe beyond recognition in a couple of days. You can use a self-adhesive film, but this way you are unlikely to turn your grandmother's sideboard into the pride of the interior. But with the help of paint, primer, varnish, napkins and a few hours of free time, something magical can be made from a wooden or plywood chest of drawers.

1. First, remove all old coating - varnish or paint - not only outside, but also inside the furniture. Process all boxes. It will take more time, but the restoration will be complete. To remove paint and varnish, it is better to use special solutions, apply them in accordance with the instructions from the manufacturer.
2. Treat the cleaned surface with fine-grained sandpaper. Then prime (use a sponge to saturate all pores).
3. If there are bumps and chips, close them with wood putty.
4. The primer can again be sanded and painted. Suitable for furniture acrylic paints They are easy to apply and lay flat. If you have not done painting work before, use convenient spray cans.

In addition to paint, you can use stickers and apply decoupage. How it works - learn from the video tutorial.

It is best to work outdoors so that you do not have to protect the room from dust and debris, and also so that you do not breathe sawdust and paint in a cramped room.

Pay attention to home textiles

The bedroom will be transformed by one bedspread on the bed. Children's - carpet. In the living room, the whole interior can revolve around the sofa and unusual pillows on it. In order not to change the upholstery of furniture, sew beautiful covers. In any room, you can "rhyme" these accents with curtains, and draperies can be not only on the windows, but also on the walls and doors. As a result, the room will look like after repair, although you did not do any work. The easiest way is to find a color that will create a contrast to the entire design of the room and will focus on textiles.

Make an unusual floor

It is unrealistic to completely re-lay the floor and lay the parquet with your own hands in a couple of days. For a quick DIY cosmetic repair, you need to estimate how much you can spend. It is not necessary to buy all the materials at once, you can prepare for replacing the floor by purchasing tools and tools in stages. This approach will allow you to think over the design concept and save on offers.

Until the end of October, OBI has a cumulative promotion: you make the first purchase for 2,000 rubles and get a 5% discount on the second one. For the second and third purchases for the same 2,000 rubles, the discount will increase and amount to 7 and 10%, respectively. Buyers who receive a card with a maximum 10% discount can use it until the end of October, and then exchange it for a card with a 5% discount until the end of the year for any purchases.

What can you spend money on so that the result exceeds expectations?

Repaint the floor using stencils or patterned schemes. This is an option ideal for wooden floors and bold hosts. The main rule is to use several colors.

Update the linoleum. This is the most affordable and easy-to-handle floor covering. Buy linoleum bright color, even the usual furniture will look completely different on it. Or you can use the experience of the artist Heike Weber and paint the old linoleum with ordinary permanent markers.

Combine Coatings. It is not necessary to change the floor in the entire room, you can replace it only in damaged areas. Choose the texture and color that will be combined with the remaining floor, and get an unusual interior.

Put vinyl tiles . This is another easy way to update your floors and save time. Tiles require preparation of a flat surface, but if you do not need leveling, even beginners can handle laying.

Add light

Sometimes it's hard to be in a room just because of the bad lighting. As you know, there are two types of light: functional and decorative. It is difficult to make the room brighter without altering the wiring, but conductive structures allow this too: the lamps that are mounted on the carrier frame can be rotated in any direction and the lighting can be changed.

But decorative lamps and LED backlight can be applied in full. Original chandeliers and floor lamps look especially good in a minimalist interior.

Paint on old tiles

Replacing tiles in a kitchen or bathroom in a couple of days takes incredible skill, skill and a complete set of tools and materials. It would be strange if there was no way to update the backsplash in the kitchen or bathroom in another way.

The easiest option is stickers. Buy any that you like, degrease the surface of the tile and apply the desired pattern.

A more time-consuming process, no less interesting in the end, is painting the tiles. Not every paint will withstand constant contact with water, so you should not paint the walls directly above the bathroom, but the kitchen and toilet walls are at your complete disposal.

How to paint a tile?

1. Clean the surface of the tiles and joints from dirt with detergent and hard brush. Wipe with a cloth soaked in vinegar solution.
2. Sand the surface with fine sandpaper so that the paint adheres better to the surface.
3. Coat the tiles with epoxy primer. Let dry until the next day.
4. Take epoxy paint and create as you see fit. If you decide to apply multiple coats, let the previous one dry for at least 12 hours.

Old furniture, boring colors, inconvenient zoning, scattered things because there is no place to store them… All this can really interfere with life. At some point, it becomes completely unbearable, and a person makes a strong-willed decision: changes are needed. We will help you! Let us fill you with inspiration, collect a collection of ingenious solutions, impressive interior changes and photos of great apartment renovation ideas.

Photos of the kitchen before and after renovation

Before and after photos clearly show how good, constructive ideas and a couple of interesting tricks can transform any room. Colors, materials, new floors and functional furniture will change the apartment in a way that you won't recognize it. Narrow rooms will appear wider, gloomy ones will become pleasant, and in the same square there will be a place for all things. Magic? Not at all! Only skillful planning of the room and the right furniture.

Design project from All Design

Renovation of a white minimalist kitchen

Would you like a minimalistic finish of the apartment? Great idea! Stylish, functional, nothing more. White, characteristic of minimalism, is a great choice for small rooms in need of optical magnification.

Renovation of the kitchen in a modern style

Having opted for minimalism and white, look for furniture with simple shapes and clean lines. To avoid the feeling that you are in the operating room, set the accents with wooden elements - parquet board or laminate, wood furniture. Living plants will perfectly fit into the atmosphere and add comfort.

Design project Kasia Orwat

Photo of a white kitchen before and after renovation

Light plays an important role in narrow spaces. White walls and reflective surfaces will not let a single ray of sunlight escape. Our advice: avoid vertical arrangement dark colors, place dark surfaces only in a horizontal direction.

Design project Dziurdzia Project

The idea of ​​​​renovating the attic floor in the Scandinavian style

TO attic floor often treated with disdain, not using it at all. But attic rooms have their own charm, their own individuality. From a technical point of view, it is necessary to carefully consider waterproofing and window openings, if any.

Design project Superpozycja Architekci

Large black and white modern style kitchen

Every housewife dreams of a big beautiful kitchen with everything you need. Thinking through the design of your new stylish kitchen, proceed from the architectural features of the room and consider the location of drainage and ventilation.

Design project Cliff Design

The idea of ​​​​modern renovation of a small narrow room - photos "before" and "after"

Often the layout of the rooms in our apartments leaves much to be desired. There is only one way out - fantasy and creativity. Light pastel colors gave the room a fresh and relaxed mood. Our tip for narrow spaces: Avoid tall furniture like wall units and bookcases visually they take up too much space.

Design project Pracowniapolka

Scandinavian style bedroom renovation idea

IN scandinavian style light is at the forefront. Under no circumstances should you allow dark furniture take away at least a part of the existing lighting. The dominant color is white. A few accents of gray and green plants diversify the interior and make it cozy.

small bedroom renovation ideas

Minimalism - perfect solution for the interior of a small room. The same color of the walls and ceiling, painted in white parquet and gray textiles create a single image. Tip: replace the handles on the cabinets with a push mechanism to open the doors, as in the presented photo. Laconic facades almost merged with the wall, which makes the room seem larger.

Design project Archideck

The idea of ​​​​renovating a small nursery. Photo "before"

Most often in the nursery we need to find a place for a bed, and for a table, and for a closet ... And it often happens that, having placed the bed, we can no longer find a place for everything else. Our advice: do not buy ready-made furniture. Order the manufacture of furniture designed for a specific room.

Furniture made to order for a very small nursery. Photo "after"

In the manufacture of custom-made furniture, you will proceed from the individual characteristics of the room and the needs of the person living in it. You will have the opportunity to optimally use every centimeter of space. In the photo above you see a built-in wardrobe and shelves at the head of the bed, made according to an individual project.

Design project Czysta Form

Modern nursery with orange accents

At some point in life, all children come to the stage when a person has his own view of what his room should be like. The child has permanent and serious hobbies, interesting topics for him. And in adolescence when the time for wallpapers with bears passes, the child wants to participate in furnishing his own room. Good decision for decorating a teenager's room - functional furniture with a simple but practical design and color accents placed with the help of individual furniture elements and textiles.

Design project Furniture Vox

Repair of a children's room for two children. Photo "before"

In the design of the nursery, it makes sense to abandon thematic wallpapers and furniture, which in a few years will cease to be interesting for the child. Our advice: bean bags and ottomans perfectly serve as multifunctional furniture that will definitely appeal to the little family members.

The idea of ​​​​renovating a children's room. Photo "after"

With the help of accents in the design of the nursery, you can beat the child's hobby. At the same time, it is necessary to consider how these accents can be changed in the event of a change in the interests of the owner of the room.

Design project Tutaj Concept

Toilet renovation idea: before and after photos

Previously, this toilet was a pitiful sight - small, narrow and dirty. Designers extended the room and managed to find stylish combination all sorts of techniques: gray-blue colors, the floor is decorated with ornamental tiles, one wall is painted in a calm gray tone, the other two are pasted over with photo wallpapers that create a feeling of endless perspective.

Design project AleDesign

Small bathroom. Photo "before"

Narrow bathroom with awkward layout and protruding water pipe- not the most attractive sight. Randomly scattered things do not add to her beauty. Our advice: combine two well-matched colors.

Bathroom renovation idea. Photo "after"

In this project, the designers combined White color and wood, placing them on all surfaces. Gloss options were chosen for white tiles and furniture. Together with a mirror, reflecting light, they make the room brighter and visually enlarge it.

Design project bluecat studio

Small bathroom interior design ideas in pastel colors

A design project designed to renovate a small bathroom on a limited budget. The blue and white interior looks fresh and modern, and the bathroom is cozy and beautiful.

Design project Studio Monocco

Bathroom interior idea - indirect lighting and material combination

The idea of ​​indirect lighting is very popular and works wonders, especially in small spaces. Create luminous "ribbons" on long bathroom elements - on the bathtub itself, on the washbasin or on the cabinet. Glossy surfaces will enhance the aesthetics of the effect by reflecting soft light.

Design project Abo Studio

Bathroom renovation idea - small bathroom in a minimalist style

A win-win option is the interior of the bathroom in black and white. This design project is interesting with an extravagant black floor and an unusual brick wall texture for a bathroom.

Design project Dziurdzia Project

White bathroom interior idea

You have a very small bathroom, but you don't want to give up a bathtub. A small bathtub designed for sitting can be a way out. Our advice: choose narrow furniture and light colors.

Small bathroom interior with storage space

Even the smallest bathroom needs storage space. A stone stand for small items and compact built-in cabinets with glass facades will come in handy and present a narrow room from the best side.

Design project A1 Studio

Optimal use of space in a small bathroom

Of course, if in a small bathroom you also need to place washing machine, the room will become even smaller. In this case, you need to find a very clever solution. Designers fit the washing machine into a row of built-in wardrobes, bringing the entire lower level under one worktop. A full-wall wall cabinet with mirrored facades was placed at the top. The entire interior is designed in gray and white, which could look rather boring if it were not for the bright green accents placed with the help of textiles and trifles.

Cheap but stylish renovation of a small apartment

Many panic at the word repair. First of all, because this phenomenon is directly related to at great expense. Yes, after the repair, many feel as if they were robbed. It is impossible to exclude expenses, but it is in your power to reduce them, without compromising the quality of the repair. So, how to make an apartment stylish, spending a minimum of savings on it?

What not to save on

The most important thing in repair is a quality foundation. This means that the floors must be even, the walls smooth and also even, and the corners must be strictly 90 degrees. What threatens such disproportion? Everything is known in the details. So, if you have uneven walls, it meansthat the skirting boards will not completely adjoin them, ugly gaps will appear, unambiguously spoiling the appearance. Further, problems with uneven corners will show up when you install cabinet corner furniture. Well, on a crooked floor, lockers will stand shaky-roll. In general, if you decide to rely on independent forces for repairs, your work must be perfect. Pouring floors, leveling and plastering walls,wall decorating, installation stretch ceilings All this should be done by professionals. Believe me, having saved on the base, you risk later laying out a much larger amount to correct errors.Do not forget that it is very important to properly lay wires around the apartment, pipes in the bathroom.Much also depends on the quality of the finish, namely its practicality andappearance. Even the most expensive ceramic tile, laid out crookedly, or cut off unevenly, will spoil the entire interior of the room.

Expensive does not mean stylish

For some reason, we mistakenly believe that expensive building and finishing materials look better, and as a result, they are 100%guarantee of a successful repair. Unfortunately, it is not. Of course, we do not put you in front of a choice between the cheapest and the most expensive material. This is not entirely true, because first of all we should talk about quality and reliability, whether it is a building mixture, finishing material or an interior item. Quality is above all, the rest is up to you. And it should fall on the most profitable options for the wallet. Repair is serious business, so take it seriously. Compare various options read reviewsabout finishing materials on the Internet.

How to reduce repair costs

We will not go into details about which is better. construction material choose because as mentioned above - the main quality. Consider the interior elements that form the basis of design.

Let's start with the design itself. It’s not worth spending money, I’m hiring a designer to tell you which corner to put the sofa in and which TV. To date, a lot interesting options for the design of apartments of various sizes and designs can be found in the public domain on the Internet. This is easy to do, you just need time to choose one or another design option. It is not necessary to repeat it exactly, you can just see what color variations are combined, what is more suitable for one or another type of finish, and finally, how upholstered furniture looks in the interior of the room.

The main components of the interior are finishing material for walls, furniture, decor items and floors.

Let's start with the floor. Many cover it with linoleum, which is quite justified. This material is relatively cheap. practical, but if we are talking about stylish apartment- this is definitely not the linoleum should decorate.Options: laminate, self-leveling floors. Laminate is cheaper than self-leveling floors and it looks very nice. This is a versatile material that can be matched in style to any interior.

Wall decoration - there can be a lot of variations on this theme. Cheap options - wallpaper. But, you have to really work hard to find cheap wallpapers of decent quality and with a pattern not a la "I'm visiting my grandmother."Did you know that many designers offer their clients not to cover the walls with anything at all, leaving the brick for everyone to see. The idea is very interesting, but requires a style specification (combine this option with a fireplace - it will be ideal). Expensive decorative plaster can be replaced with a regular one applied with a relief roller, all this splendor can then be painted in any color, but just carefully select the paint.

Interior items - exactly onthey spend a huge chunk of their money. Minimalist style to help you. Buying cabinet furniture is not cheap. However, as practice shows, much cheaper and more practicalbuy itemsinterior separately.

Pay attention to the junk that is left of the former situation. Now this is called vintage, and if you skillfully beat this style into the interior (including wallpaper, purchase a couple of antiques, hang black and white photographs), then you won’t have to buy anything. A rocking chair will perfectly complement the interior, they are usually cheaper than ordinary soft chairs.

Cheap but stylish renovation - photo