Question: Accent Colors on Your Floor? Austin

Question: Accent Colors on Your Floor?
Austin

We've seen some gorgeous color schemes in homes around the country at Apartment Therapy. Tastes certainly differ, with some people favoring bright colors and others preferring soft neutrals. While pops of colors and neutrals can be used on many surfaces of a home, an often underutilized surface for color and pattern is the floor. While photographing for an upcoming home tour, we fell in love with the colored tile the homeowner chose for the kitchen, and we remembered a previous home tour with a colorful dining room floor...

We love Jennifer Perkins' bright and colorful dining room floor, but we admit it would be a bit much for our own home. We could, however, be persuaded to go with a unique, solid-colored tile! Not counting area rugs, do you have an interesting color or pattern on your floor? If so, what it is? What material is your floor made out of? If you have a more typical floor color, would you ever consider altering it or replacing it with something more eye-catching? Why or why not? Let us know!

(Image: Jennifer's Cool and Kitschy Austin Home )

Comments (11)

What material is the floor with the circles -- linoleum, hand painted, what?

posted by jplee on May 18th 2009 at 10:28am
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I love Jennifer's DR. It works great in that room with her unique style. I could never pull off anything that bold. If I were going to try it, I'd probably try living with a rug before installing something permanent. That's the benefit of products like Flor and Marmoleum.

posted by quiltmaster on May 18th 2009 at 10:35am
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The first example is a bit over-the-top to me and seems like it'd look dated quickly. I do love colorful tile floors, however, particularly Moroccan/Moorish.

The only issue with multi-colored floors might be finding little things you might drop (like screws or paperclips, etc.) and little spills to clean up.

posted by slowdown on May 18th 2009 at 10:40am
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I selected the wall-to-wall leopard print carpet in my family in large part because I thought pics of my daughter learning to crawl on it would be adorable.
I also thought it would hide stains really well. And look nice next to the penny bathroom (still in progress...)
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36263456@N08/3542996452/in/photostream/

posted by teeze on May 18th 2009 at 10:47am
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Jennifer's floor is handpainted and still looks fabulous!

posted by slipaustin on May 18th 2009 at 10:55am
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Oooooh, teeze! She's a doll. She'd be pretty on any color floor. Love, love the turquoise steps too...

posted by quiltmaster on May 18th 2009 at 11:10am
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Jennifer's floor makes much more sense when you see it in the context of the drapes and pictures.

posted by JoanneM on May 18th 2009 at 11:21am
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I have a large utility room off the kitchen that doubles as a pantry. The old blue/white 70s linoleum was looking reall rough. So we ripped it out and replaced it with a citrus yellow and orange VCT tiles in big blocks of color and I just love it. It's bright, sunny, and warm. It's in a secondary part of the house so we were willing to go bolder but still modern and fresh. I can't say laudry is any more fun, but at least it happens in a more attractive space!

posted by mntwmyn on May 18th 2009 at 11:24am
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Thanks quiltmaster!

posted by teeze on May 18th 2009 at 11:49am
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I had slate floors in dark grey in my home in LA, they were so beautiful and felt great underfoot.

I would love to do some color like the yellow or turquoise I think it would go great with all white cabinets and stainless steel, I like the epoxy look-
http://www.lonseal.com/show_product/LONMETRO%20UV

posted by LoriSF on May 18th 2009 at 2:29pm
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This would also look great using only one shade of color.

posted by baileyb on May 18th 2009 at 3:54pm
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