Covering Up A Landlords Carpet

Covering up an ugly rental unit carpet with wood flooring.

Covering up a landlords carpet.

Carpet is one of the softest flooring materials made from synthetic and natural fibers such as wool nylon polyester and polypropylene. You might find yourself in a situation where you just have to live with the ugly carpeting you have. Is it even possible. Though it covers the entire floor your carpet isn t actually the dominate color in the room.

Brightening your walls like this blogger did can temper a too tan rug or at least help you see your. Usually if there is a carpet you don t like you can t remove it without the landlord s permission. Cover what you can distract up when possible and give it a good cleaning. Despite these tactics however.

Seattle renter sumit basu covered up his low pile apartment carpet with a snap in laminate floor sharing tips of the process with a how to video documenting the upgrade process bored with the dark bland low pile carpet in my living room i decided to install a wood laminate floor to cover part of my living space. Take a tip from kanter and buy enough rubberized flooring to cover an area. Create your own custom floor covering from precut carpet samples area rugs and carpet remnants of similar thickness by fusing all the pieces together with carpet seam tape. It also fluffs the fibers leaving the carpet looking almost brand new.

If what your room is really screaming for is wall to wall carpet the good kind of course but you aren t exactly up for the commitment consider carpet tiles a pit stop at lowe s will do the. If you live in a rented house or apartment there are limits on the amount of alterations you can make to the property. Plot your layout in one area at a time and then slide a piece of the seam tape sticky side up along the edge of one carpet piece pressing the edge of the next piece onto it. Its cushioned surface is comfortable on the feet and carpet comes in a broad spectrum of colors and styles that match almost any interior decor.

This would likely work best covering hardwoods tile or laminate. You can choose colors and place rugs on top. The rake frees up and lifts sunk in dirt pet hair and dead skin that you can then pick up with a vacuum or carpet cleaner. Jan 28 2012 how many of us fellow renters have dreamt this very same idea.

You could use canvas or carpet tiles to mask the carpet.