Avoid boring flooring

A consumer recently asked for some advice in creating an interesting floor design using FLOR by heuga tiles for her home. She currently has a floor of our high pile range LazyLounge in one colour - Dark Chocolate.

I thought it could be useful to share the details here in case there are other people out there wanting to get creative.

At FLOR by heuga we always try to encourage the use of different colours and textures to create a unique and interesting floor design as this is the true benefit of carpet tiles and you will see that our catalogue and website is full of photos showing different floor design ideas.

Here are some of the options I suggested:

Combination Ideas - add a few feature tiles to create interest eg a stripe, border or just single tiles

1. Same colour, different texture

See the image for a combination of CountryClassic and Country Contemporary - an example of a combination of different textures in the same colour.

A similar effect is possible using LazyLounge - Dark Chocolate and PuzzlePieces colour Dark Chocolate. This would be an excellent combination product for a subtle variation on the floor. These two products could be used in a variety of patterns.

2. Combine Dark Chocolate with a bright vibrant shade - such as green, orange or red

See the image where LazyLounge Dark Chocolate is combined with colours in our PuzzlePieces range (Carrot Juice and Crimson Pink). This certainly creates impact on the floor.

3. Beige/Brown combination

A subtle complementary combination - Dark Chocolate and Biscotti are a popular pairing. In the picture this shows a main floor in PuzzlePieces in colour Biscotti, combined with LazyLounge in colour Biscotti and PuzzlePieces in colour Dark Chocolate.

With a main floor in Dark Chocolate you could combine with colour Biscotti in LazyLounge and/or PuzzlePieces.

Our online design tool is great for trying out different combinations. This is an easy to use online design tool which has a number of pre-designed simple floor layouts where you can try out different colour combinations.

Please click on the following link to have a go yourself:
Online Floor Designer

Click to view the FLOR by heuga product catalogue

Arrows Design Kitchen Carpet Tiles

Here's a funky modern floor design using New Nature carpet tiles from FLOR by heuga to create an arrow floor design in a kitchen. These carpet tiles feature a woven texture and are suitable for a range of demanding areas such as kitchens, dining rooms and hallways.

These carpet tiles are treated to be stain resistant and have an antimicrobial treatment to inhibit the growth of bacteria so they are good looking and practical.

While the design looks quite complicated, it is all possible with a metal straight edge and a sharp carpet knife. When installing a design of carpet tiles it's often easiest to place them loosely to play around and rearrange them then once happy cut the design into place and use the cut tiles as a template and fit them into the main floor of carpet tiles.

Most people don't think of the floor as a design area but with carpet tiles the design flexibility is limited only by your own imagination so you can be really flexible and create a carpet to get noticed.

Heuga Virtual Room Tool

We have finally got our new Virtual Room Tool up and running on Heuga.com. We have spent ages working with a company to create this online tool where you can try out different floors in a room scene. It is really great and means you can get an idea of how a style looks before buying it.

We know people like to get creative with more than one colour or texture so we've included a combine option so you can add another style and see how the two look together.

If you fancy a play, here's the link: http://www.heuga.com/InterfRoomVisualiser/uk

Here's some I created earlier...