Bathroom Floor Finished

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I've finally got round to putting down the floor in the bathroom. 

It's amazing how used to the bare plywood we'd become.

To be honest I'd forgotten how much flooring changes a room! It now feels finished after waiting over 12 months! Why did I put it off so long?

In an ideal world we wouldn't have gone for for something more expensive than the end of roll vinyl flooring that we've ended buying from the discount bin, but it's all our budget would stretch to. We would have much rather gone for something like tiles or some high quality  Engineered Wood Flooring.

As both our bathrooms are quite small I decided to lay them myself. The first smaller shower room didn't take too long. I find laying something like this far harder than fitting a wood floor, the material (as it's a low cost one) rips easily and is pretty unforgiving. Luckily here I could lift the toilet rather than cutting round it.

The second bathroom was far harder and in the end I used off cuts from the first floor to create a template before I cut the lino for real. This is a great tip for anyone cutting flooring to be honest. It means that you can get it right round all the awkward bits before you need to start on more expensive material!

The kids found the whole process fascinating and kept following me round. My eldest in particular was watching closely and kept asking what I was going to do with the waste. I didn't realise that she had plans for the large off cut!

Turns out I had three floors to do! The Wendy house got a bit of a revamp that day!

An afternoon well spent in my mind. The bathroom feels like it's finally finished (after I added the mirrors which I'll blog about later) and now I'm wondering why I left it so long. The kids love their new Wendy house floor as well!

Do you have an area that needs a new floor? Or one that you did after years of waiting?