Need Help On Theme And Flooring

[toonus88 0]

Hi...

my wife and I are getting a 5rm flat from HDB and hope to get some advice

Previous owner of the house had renovated the house and placed marble flooring

However, the color of the marble is pinkish. My wife is contemplating of removing all the marbles and replace with white color tiles as she like to have a modern theme.

currently, our budget is a bit tight and may only have 20k for renovating the entire house.

Can we still have modern theme with the existing marble flooring? any suggestions?

thanks

[applefreak 1]

certainly!

will clever use of carpets, rugs and furnitures i'm sure your place will turn out nicely while still retaining the current flooring

[waileong 0]

Hope you got loads of money. Replacing all the tiles will cost a bomb! Did you watch Money No Enough?

[sing gunner 0]

get a few quotes from diff contractors & then decide if u really wanna hack & replace the marble flooring

another alternative is to install laminated flooring.....u can hv choices of light-coloured ones but not totally white .....

[Cantona7 0]

Hi Toonus88,

I think ur mables floor look beautiful. Although is pinkish but it will be really a waste to replace it I would suggest either u can use Applefreak method commoflash the flooring with rug & furnitures or change ur hse theme to Western Style or Country Style which is not so popular in Spore.

Most ppls step into ur hse first thing look at ur furnitures or carpentry they seldom look at ur flooring so hope this don bother ur design too much.

[applefreak 1]

hi toonus88, suggest you look at mummylee's t-blog

she also kept the marble floor

and the result is fantastic

[JS21 0]

What a waste to hack away the expensive marble and replace with cheap white tiles. Just my personal humble opinion.

[floppy 4]

a modern theme need not exclude marble flooring (especially when one is already in place). i would also like to suggest that having white colour tiles (as a modern theme) because they appeared to be de rigueur in some magazines are basically a lazy man (or lazy id) way of interpreting the 'modern' theme.

Edited November 22, 2007 by floppy