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It’s All in the Details: Beautiful Flooring Transitions We Can’t Get Enough Of

Nancy Mitchell
Nancy Mitchell
As a former Senior Writer at Apartment Therapy, Nancy split her time among looking at beautiful pictures, writing about design, and photographing stylish apartments in and around NYC.
published May 17, 2016
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“God,” German architect Mies van der Rohe once famously said, “is in the details.” It’s hard to imagine more beautiful details than these six boundaries where two flooring surfaces meet, marrying different materials in innovative and elegant ways. If you decide to imitate these transitions in your own home, don’t be surprised if everyone spends all their time looking down.

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In this kitchen from Royal Roulotte, hexagonal concrete tiles in a tumbling block pattern transition seamlessly into an antique wood floor.

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Scalloped concrete meets wood at at NYC’s Musket Room, spotted on 79 Ideas.

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(Image credit: Kalb Lempereur)
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Tile pavers playfully transition to wood in this bathroom from Kalb Lempereur.

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Wood floor meets tile in this kitchen from Decoholic.

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I love how the herringbone pattern of the wood wraps and embraces the tiles in this photo from Belle and Boo.

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Wood meets marble, with just the thinnest strip of brass in between, in this kitchen floor from House & Garden.

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