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wont that ruin the floor underneath?

Looks totally cool in the right space, but for us renters, I'm concerned about the gooey sticky residue left when the tape is removed at move-out.

I think this would leave alot of sticky residue on the floor when you peel it up. Probably not very renter safe.

What happens when it gets hot and gooey on the edges of each piece?!

hope it doesn't leave the floor sticky.

As she says:

"and its kind of getting gross like the edges are sticky and peeling a bit so like hair and other crap is like stuck to the floor"

and should you chose to do this, you can probably kiss your deposit goodby.

(here in LA, it's gaffer's tape, not duct tape.)

duct tape and gaffer's tape are two completely different things.

@mscot I know, but it was meant to be moderately amusing, meaning that in Hollywood, one would use gaffer's tape, not non-pro dust tape. Sigh.

Either way, it's hideous.

As for the inspirational Jim Lambie; Try Roberto Scafidi instead. Apparently he'd already been doing this!

Crazy, but brilliant- if the floor is gross already, why not duct tape it?

Omg, thats looks like a TON of fussy cut and stick over what appears to be planks of i assume, wood. Which, dude... rent a sander or coat of paint.

COOL floor!

It reminded me of this ridiculously expensive cabinet at Conran shop in NYC.

http://www.conranusa.com/ProductDetails.aspx?pid=21305&cid=Storage&language=en-US

This looks really cute, but it isn't practical. The first thing I'd be worried about was whether it could be mopped. Could it?

But yes, as Palmetto said, the sticky stuff left behind afterward would probably ruin your chances of getting that security deposit back, no matter how crappy the floor was before.

I'll just hop on the naysaying bandwagon here. This is a super bad idea. That much duct tape isn't even going to come cheap. There's nothing ecological about it.

I can think of about a dozen better ways to deal with crappy floors, starting with paint and some shellac.

Just an FYI, The MoMA Jim Lambie piece took a good week of 5 Jim Lambie's assistants to install, had weekly maintenance, and left a residue when finally taken off.

Can it be sealed with something to prevent the edges from getting messy? About the floor underneath, if it is already gross, if this is taken off one would have to put something else on top of it. So I would not worry about the floor underneath.

Some one here have any ideas about sealing it. Cause it does look great.

An alternative to duct tape that worked well for me and did not leave a sticky residue on the floor was contact paper (you know the kind that you line your kitchen shelves with). It's cheap and turned out to be pretty durable though I would stay away from using white for obvious reasons. I did a cute black and white checkerboard pattern and had to occasionally replace the white squares where there was heavy foot traffic.