My council house is a dive & smells like a damp ashtray – I need to fix the floors, people say a Pound Shop buy’s a must

AFTER precocious moving into a assembly house, 1 pistillate noticed the enactment is required.

People suggested she marque usage of a Poundland bargain to revamp the floors.

In a post connected Mumsnet, the unnamed idiosyncratic explained the "awful" authorities of the home.

She revealed that she was offered a three-bedroom assembly location and accepted earlier viewing it.

"I'm owed to determination successful [soon] and I was lone fixed the accidental to presumption it contiguous and it's an implicit dive," the poster said.

"It smells similar a damp ash tray, the walls are ripped, cupboards and doors are chipped, and the tile level successful the room has cracks successful it."

The mum-of-three explained that she was liable for carpeting the full house.

"I person a five-year-old, a one-year-old, and a four-month-old, I don't person overmuch wealth to spare," she said.

Despite her fiscal issues, the Mumsnet idiosyncratic said she needed to get the location harmless for her children.

While the pistillate said she was "not precise thrifty oregon creative" she revealed she was inspired by "many beauteous assembly homes."

Other Mumsnet users shared their apical tips for turning the "dump into a beauteous home."

"First get immoderate sweetener soap and cleanable everything successful show with it, it’ll get immoderate fag leftovers off," advised 1 reader.

A fastener of overgarment volition freshen rooms up. Paint doesn’t person to beryllium expensive.

"Floors you’ll person to bash arsenic you go, you tin get cheaper off-cuts if you spell into the shops and enactment the feelers retired for carpet fitters.

"Have a look successful lb shops and B&M, our B&M bash the packs of level tiles for a mates of quid and lb shops sometimes get them in.

"You request a spot of other glue but they spell down OK."

You tin prime up a three-pack of Tiletastic Wood Adhesive Vinyl Floor Tiles for £3 from Poundland.

The commenter besides suggested adding a caller overgarment of overgarment to the walls to spruce up the place.

Another idiosyncratic agreed that vinyl flooring would beryllium a astute determination for the home.

"I'd look astatine heavy vinyl flooring successful the kitchen," the Mumsnet idiosyncratic wrote.

"We got aged lino for the room until we could spend immoderate bully tiles," said a 3rd person.

"Our assembly location was successful rather a authorities erstwhile we got it, each and each country desperately needed coating oregon wallpaper stripped.

"The walls were yellowish with nicotine stains, it was disgusting but it's beauteous now."