flooring
by Mariana Pickering (Emu Architects)Mariana Pickering (Emu Architects) If the wooden look or the Moorish hand-painted look were to your liking, you may be interested in something else I saw popping up all over the place. In a rustic-meets-modern kind of way, there were many examples of wooden textures being combined with traditional patterns to create large expanses of patchwork. For example, these wooden tiles are cut to form a base grid, and then you can chose any kind of decorative tile to fill in the boxes.
She ordered Scrabble tiles from China and installed them herself. “I was met with a lot of questions and confusion from our project managers and trades, but in the end, everyone loved it!” There are approximately 7,000 Scrabble tiles on the floor, each individually laid by Katie. The actual installation of the tiles took two full days to complete. “I had the entire floor designed beforehand, and my husband and I came up with approximately 60 words that are hidden in the floor,” she says. The words include cities they have lived in, family members’ names and inside jokes.
The floor of the main bedroom is made of concrete and copper. "It's never too hot or too cold, it's easy to clean and, more importantly, it's beautiful,"
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