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As an owner (not as a renter), you have every opportunity to expand, as long as the height of the connections (with neighboring components and/or rooms) is not exceeded.

The question is how much money you want to spend and how long the floor will last without major repairs.

What I mean is this: with a little money, you (unprofessionally) install PVC in the form of planks over tile, perhaps with a roller fixing so it doesn't pop right away. And rejoice in the new floor for only a few months, which will increasingly have a life of its own; especially since the grout pattern of the old tiles will show up more and more on the new PVC flooring.

With a little more effort, the tiles are cleaned, sanded and primed, and then troweled with a 2mm flat trowel. After that, you can choose anything you like as a coating. No more troweling afterwards!

One of the most expensive, but high quality solutions can be to coat the surface with a decorative synthetic resin, which should be suitable for interiors (most of them are today).

Here you have an infinite number of possible options, from monochrome, with colored chips (flakes) to multi-colored unique floors, made on the principle of interlocking.

The construction height for all the options: about 3 mm to 5 mm.

These are just a few examples that I would like to list just for guidance.

In the "tile on tile" variant you can only work with reactive resin adhesive! The minimum installation height here is 13-15 mm.