We're big fans of Flor carpet tiles for their awesome selection and commitment to sustainability, but it's even better when someone improves upon a product to make it work in their own home. To compliment his Burke table, Tyler over at Plastolux recently came up with a way to create a round rug from a series of sixteen floor tiles.
One thing's for sure: when it comes to cutting out perfect circles, there should definitely be some math involved. To do this, Tyler created what is essentially a large-scale compass with a utility knife fastened to one end.
With the tiles turned over and taped together, he was able to use his contraption to score a perfect circle (using a fixed bolt at the center to keep the compass in place) and then made the remaining cuts by hand.
Here's to DIY ingenuity!
Read More: To get the full scoop on how Tyler tackled this project, check out: DIY - Cutting a round rug from Flor carpet tiles from Plastolux
(Images: Plastolux)
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That is really neat, and I've thought about doing something like this to an old carpet. Do you have to worry about the edges fraying?
With the Flor tiles you will get a little Fray but then it will stop. I don't know how other carpets will react to this.
there is carpet glue you can buy to stop any fraying just let it dry before flipping the rug right side up. I've done this with a 40$ 8X5 rug... I've cats who love love love carpet.. so I make sure to have inexpensive rugs just for them. Plus, my concrete floors look/feel better with the odd rug.
He could have used 2 fewer tiles if he cut the corners diagonally and shared them in opposites... I would totally have been on that!
Some great Flor carpet tiles, definitely gonna try it. Lets see, how it looks. :)
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Hey hi again, I tried it and say what it looks awesome.
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