Protect Your Floors When Moving Furniture With A Hack You'll Wish You Tried Sooner

Whether you're moving into a new house or rearranging your living space to implement some feng shui into your home, the last thing you want is to scratch your floors while sliding furniture around. In fact, that is one of the most common ways to damage wood floors. While there are some fast fixes out there for scratched wood flooring, odds are you'd rather avoid this problem in the first place. Many people opt to use felt furniture pads while repositioning heavy furniture on their hardwood floors, but if you're in a pinch, you can try this clever upcycle hack from TikTok instead. As user @redeux_style shares, koozies are the perfect shape to slip onto the bottom of chair, couch, table, and desk legs. Once koozies are placed on all the legs, you can then slide that piece of furniture around with ease — and without worrying about damaging your floors.

Since koozies are usually made from materials like foam or neoprene to keep drinks cold and insulated, theoretically, they should also work pretty well to protect your floors. And, because they are so commonly given out as keepsakes at parties and events, odds are you have a stack of them in your kitchen somewhere already. Rather than letting them sit unused or throw them away, it's worth keeping this trick in mind next time you need to move your furniture. 

This TikTok hack reusing old koozies is pretty clever, but it might make you stop and wonder— what are other ways to preserve your floors while moving heavy furniture? Well, if you don't have any old koozies lying around, odds are you definitely have a few old pairs of socks in the closet. For a clever way to repurpose old socks around the house, you can temporarily slip them onto furniture legs to move them around without damaging the floors. For a more permanent solution, you can buy some furniture leg socks. You can also protect your floors by placing your heavier pieces on top of an old blanket, or even pieces of cardboard, to slide them around.

To take it a few steps further, you can also completely cover your floors before changing the placement of your furniture. If you have rugs or floor runners handy, you can place these in the moving zone so your heavy pieces can avoid contact with your floors altogether. Even if you don't have any such carpets in your home, you can order a neoprene floor runner to protect your surfaces.