Carpet tiles - pretty pics from FLOR by heuga carpet tiles!

Grey carpet tiles with an accent of purple carpet tiles from FLOR by heuga complement each other for a really modern look for any room in your home.

Carpet tiles from FLOR by heuga offer a modern and truly unique floor design.

Neutral coloured carpet tiles are very popular for a modern look.Brown carpet tiles form the main floor with light cream and duck egg blue carpet tiles used to create this really special farmhouse kitchen look.

Choosing a carpet for your home is a difficult decision. Flooring for your home should be comfortable and stylish so heuga carpet tiles are a great option for a good balance of comfortable and practical flooring.

Colourful home decoration appears popular this year with some bright fresh shades in decoration magazines and interior trend forecasts.

The Instant Impact range of FLOR by heuga carpet tiles has featured in various magazines due to the vibrant modern colour range.

Natural flooring is a popular choice - natural carpet tiles are available from FLOR by heuga in the form of 100% wool carpet tiles - these are our CountryClassic range of tiles. There is also an 80/20 mix called CountryContemporary. Environmentally friendly flooring, sustainable carpet tiles, a company with a social conscience - that would be FLOR by heuga.

Carpet tiles from FLOR by heuga are stylish and give you new ideas for flooring. A variety of textures are available including shag pile carpets, cut pile carpets and more hardwearing loop pile carpet tiles.
If you want to be creative on the floor then carpet tiles are a great way to get inventive and create something personal for your home.

Ideal Home Show, Ireland

This week I travelled over to Dublin for the Ideal Home Show. A lady called Anne Ellard was one of the finalists in the Ideal Homes Interior Designer of the Year award with her entry 'Eco Chic Bedroom' and she used our fabulous FunkyFeet carpet tiles in her showcase.

Anne's showcase featured dark wood furniture with accessories and furnishings in light nature-inspired shades and it was a beautiful room set. She had installed a border of FunkyFeet in colour Barn stone around the bed within a main floor of FunkyFeet in colour Pearl.

I visited the show with Malcolm James, pictured with Anne in her showcase room.

Malcolm is an Account Manager for Heuga Home Flooring covering Ireland.

Malcolm and I were both thrilled to see the room design and the response to our flooring. Anne told us that she had been inundated with people asking about the fab shagpile flooring and she had quickly run out of Heuga catalogues to hand out.

Anne is based in Waterford City offering interior design advice for homes.

She is particularly interested in sustainable yet stylish interior designs and this is reflected in the room she designed for the show.

See her website at http://www.anseomragalanta.com/index.html

LazyLounge - sneak preview of Heuga's new shagpile carpet tile range

I recently went to the lovely Isle of Wight for the latest Heuga photo shoot for the 2008 catalogue and I have to share some photos of one of our brand new products as it's really fab. This is LazyLounge - our latest shagpile range which looks and feels amazing.

We installed this in a house on the Isle of Wight and the guy who owned the house was so thrilled that he wanted to keep it so he bought the floor there and then!

This design is really neat - stylish and interesting but not wacky and it feels amazingly soft!

The shot we did for the catalogue features a poodle called Anastasia - she was adorable and a real poser loving every minute of the shoot! The pics are hillarious and she looks like she owns the place.

Unfortunately LazyLounge won't be available to buy until January 2008 but I had to get these pics on here for an early sneak preview.

Naming my Blog

Naming a blog is quite a challenge and in my search for inspiration I came across this post on the Business Week blog where these guys posted their brainstorm of a load of names...
http://www.businessweek.com/the_thread/blogspotting/archives/2005/04/how_to_name_a_b.html
I thought I'd do the same (despite working alone!) so I grabbed my Heuga scribbles pad and got a few names down. Here's some of the results:
I had a little help from a friend who suggested the smart 'Carpet Diem' - a play on the Latin phrase 'Carpe Diem' meaning 'Seize the day'. In my ignorance I had to check out the meaning and was very impressed. However I decided to keep it simple and Square-Vision was the winning choice.

Carpet tiles have a bit of an image problem but people are generally really impressed with the concept and design possibilities of carpet tiles once they've seen them in use so this blog is an attempt to share the delights of carpet tile design in the home.

My top 10 blog names: 1. Square Vision 2. Floor Space 3. Floor and More 4. Vibrant Square 5. Carpet Diem 6. Fair and Square 7. Inside Out 8. Floor Project 9. Square Living 10. Square Style

Heuga at 100% Design

This is a picture from the 100% Design Show in Rotterdam earlier this year.

My colleagues organised this and I thought they did a great job on the floor creating a rug effect out of 4 different styles, especially including the funky Pebbles design tile, which is a great product!

My Square Vision!

This is me in my office sporting a lovely Heuga T-shirt!

I've decided it would be smart to write about the fun stuff that we get up to at Heuga.com because it is quite a fun place to be and we want to share our Square Vision with the world! Actually, I just came up with the term Square Vision this morning but I quite like it!

Heuga Home Flooring is all about being creative with your floor. Some people seem to be a bit nervous about straying from the conventional wall to wall carpet, but Heuga carpet tiles offer you a huge range of design options for flooring for your home. Some people just don't like the name 'carpet tiles' so we tried calling it 'modular flooring' to get over this problem but then people get all confused about what it is we are talking about.

Embrace the Tile

There's no need to be scared - it is time to be brave and embrace the endless possibilities of modular flooring, carpet tiles, carpet squares - whatever you want to call it !

Here's a couple of my favourite pictures to ease you into the world of creative flooring!

Modern Floor Combination in the Dining Room

This is my favourite Heuga photo. Part of my job includes organising photography with a fab bunch of great people (will cover them later) so forgive me for feeling passionate about the results. Anyway this shot shows WoodWork around the edge of a rug of DayDream. This demonstrates how simple it is to make a floor more interesting and create a focus point for the room.

WoodWork is a great product as it looks like wood but is soft like carpet. Now that we have all experienced the faults of laminate - cold, hard, dust covered stuff - our WoodWork product ticks the boxes of stylish design with homey comfort.

DayDream is my favourite Heuga product (the light coloured product in the centre of the picture above). This comes in 3 similar light beige type colours, Cotton is my favourite as shown here. This has a lovely chunky texture design and looks like wool.

Luxurious Bedroom Floor Design

This picture shows an elaborate posh bedroom scheme with a fabulous luxurious floor.

The main product is Luxury Living in colour ice cream - a really stylish and stunning product combining three different textures in the same colour to create this subtle striped design.

In designer speak - the red carpet around the bed enhances the image of grandeur and adds a really stylish focus for the room. This red carpet is PuzzlePieces in colour Amaryllis.

PuzzlePieces comes in 20 colours and is a really great product to combine with others. If you love the colour red or orange or green, but you're a little nervous about having a floor entirely in that one colour then this is the perfect solution as you can add a border or a rug effect or a little focal point wherever you like to add your own personal touch to your design scheme.