The Uneven Ground Came with an Unexpected Hiccup
Knowing the style Lauren wanted, she scrolled through Pinterest and saved pictures of spaces she hoped to emulate — studying the details of each to figure out exactly what elements she needed. “What specific colors, textures, and patterns was I gravitating towards?” Lauren shares.
When that was figured out, Lauren decided the first step in her renovation process was leveling the ground before moving on to the other details. The best and most renter-friendly option, in her opinion, was to lay her own pavers and paint them Behr’s “Pasha Brown.”
“I did it by laying down landscape fabric and a thin layer of sand on top, then put down concrete pavers, which I found for less than $2 a piece at Lowe’s,” she says. The way she designed it made it an easy, renter-friendly hack. She planned that when she moved it out, she’d be able to simply pick up all the pavers, fold the tarp, and dispose of the sand.
Even though it didn’t take that many pavers to cover the entire space since it’s so small, “it was still a LOT of work,” Lauren shares. She ended up straining her back from moving everything. “I was literally bedridden for three days, and could not stand up or walk.”
But she says it was worth it because while the result wasn’t perfect, it made the ground feel significantly more level.
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