But let me dial it back.
When we bought the house, it had wall-to-wall awful tan brown carpet that had seen better days. We tore it out and replaced it with strand bamboo wood flooring.
Obviously when you rip out carpet to replace it with pricy hardwood flooring, the only logical thing to do is to then go out and spend a ton of money on area rugs to cover the new expensive flooring, right? Right. I won't bore you with photos of all the area rugs we bought, I will save that for when rooms are in the finishing stages of decorating but what I will share with you is a tale of my hallway runner.
Our hallway is over 20ft long. I was limited with what I could do and I didn't want to spend a fortune. I have always loved flor carpet tiles, so much so that we have used carpet tiles in our past house and I have pushed the magic of flor on to my friends to buy for their homes. I have a best friend that might have an addiction. (Ya, I called you out.)
Anyways, I was secretly thrilled I finally had a spot to use flor tiles in this house. I didn't want to stick to just one pattern, one color or one texture so I went to their site and just started picking everything I liked to play with. They have a program online that you can create your own patterns but the anal designer in me, I had to do it my way and my way was to take screen captures of every square I liked and I placed them all in Indesign and started making patterns… and patterns… and patterns… aaaaannnd patterns. During all this excitement we purchased a shag area rug for the dining room so that helped me narrow down my colors and patterns. Trust me, I was all over the place before that!
Here is where I landed. I split the grid so I could use whole,
half and 1/4 strips of carpet tiles.
Once I decided that was it, I ordered all my tiles, including extras as
replacements for the future due to stain or wear.
The shipment arrived in 3 not so light, almost pizza box like boxes.
My cat needed to inspect them.
Very inventive! And the little pastel pops of color doubtless make for a fun game of hopscotch when moving from room to room--nice.
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