Tag: Flooring

make your home inviting, neutral living room with layerd rugs

Creating the perfect ambiance in your home can be fun and challenging.  Various flooring trend ideas provide an ideal foundation for building beautiful and appealing decor in a home. Rugs can be the perfect accessory to make your space cozy and inviting.  More specifically, layering rugs throughout your home will allow you to incorporate different textures and patterns into your living spaces.  We all know that rugs protect floors from wear while also adding a decorative element to the home.

Layering Natural Texture Rugs

Layering rugs, sisal rug with cowhide, D'Apostrophe Design

D’Apostrophe Design

One factor that should be taken into consideration when layering rugs are textures and patterns.  One of the most appealing aspects of rugs over rugs is how cozy and collected can make a room feel.  When a guest enters your home, you want them to feel welcomed and relaxed.  Likewise, you want to feel that your home and its intimate spaces are peaceful retreats.  Textures and patterns will make your living room or bedroom feel warm and inviting, especially natural textures such as cowhide, jute, and sisal.  When layering rugs look to include various styles like wool, bamboo, and even animal skin, the space looks more exciting and inviting.

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Parquet flooring from light wood to darker tones, herringbone or chevron floors can be used in many types of home decor.  From elegant and classic style to modern to rustic, Herringbone and Chevron parquet flooring can add not only architectural details but dimension, texture and sometimes even drama when used in contrasting colors as the second image below illustrates.  These types of parquet wood floors share two very similar types of zigzag pattern, and it’s easy to confuse one with the other.  For those still confused, Chevron pattern floors meet at a straight line, forming a more zigzag or rectangular design, while a Herringbone floor, the ends butt against each other, cut at an angle creating a broken zigzag pattern.  Herringbone floor may make installation more challenging than chevron floor, but both types of wood flooring design are equally worth the work and time.

Chevron, Herringbone, parquet flooring

Difference between Chevron and Herringbone

Chevron, Herringbone, parquet flooring

In this space above the tiles are thick but still form a beautiful black and white chevron floor.  Love how the wood paneling and coffered ceiling warm up the space.

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