10 unusual uses for vinyl tiles in your home

Peel and stick vinyl tiles are ridiculously easy to lay, durable and low maintenance, and quickly create a new look for your interiors. Here we look at some ideas for using leftover tiles.

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Line your cupboard floors

For a smart finish to tatty cupboards, line the floor with vinyl tiles. This also works well for kitchen cupboards, as vinyl flooring is water repellent and easy to clean.

Spruce up an old table top

This is a great idea for a crafting table or for creating a table top suitable for the children to paint on. Spills will wipe up without any problem from the durable and water repellent surface.

Create a splashback

Kitchen splashbacks can cost a fortune; however, vinyl tiles can be a beautiful, cost-effective and easy care solution. They look so good that you might want to buy them just for this purpose from a supplier such as ukflooringdirect.co.uk.

Get crafty

Round up the children and create a bird box from scrap wood, using tiny tiles cut from vinyl as the roof.

Plant coasters

Are you fed up with getting rings on your furniture from your potted plants? There is no need to shell out for expensive plant saucers; instead, simply cut shapes from a vinyl tile and stand your plants on them.

Tag your plants

If you can never remember what you have planted and where, cut name labels from vinyl tiles. These will stand up to anything the weather can throw at them.

Avert DIY disasters

Vinyl tiles can be a DIYers best friend. Use them for durable templates or handy jigs when you are drilling holes; in fact, they are so useful for DIY that it is worth keeping any offcuts in your toolbox.

Perk up your bathroom

If you need a quick fix for horrible bathroom tiles, try using your leftover peel and stick vinyl tiles to disguise them. With no need for grout and resilient to damp and mould, they make a hygienic replacement.

Resurface a worktop

If your worktops have seen better days and you have not quite saved up for new ones, vinyl tiles are a quick-fix solution.

Customise a cabinet

Customise a cabinet, picture or mirror frame that has seen better days. Just use your imagination and see what you can create!