Apartment Therapy: hard flooring

Technicolor Parquet Flooring

Painted floors are a dynamic way to add color to a space, and Apartment Therapy has been keeping tabs on some of the best examples. We'd like to add this amazing parquet floor to the mix......

"An idea that comes from the widely accepted view that the colors of nature are, in the main, beautiful, harmonious, and satisfying is that the use of only the natural colors of materials will guara...

Graphic Concrete

We have always been fond of concrete as a building material, and now we have reason to be even more partial to it. We loved the concrete art that was blogged about on Apartment Therapy last year, but ...

Inspiration: Stone Flooring

A business school doesn't really qualify as an apartment. But honestly? Whatever! Look at that flooring! It's such a rarity to see such large slabs of stone used for flooring, we love it. ...

Concrete Art by Transparent House

San Francisco-based Transparent House never fails to amaze. You may remember their Perspektiva Lamp and their Tape Cassette Lamp. Their Concrete Art is nothing less than stunning....

SF Good Questions: Hardwood Floors in the Bathroom?

Hello all, We're redoing our nice little bungalow, and are about ready to rip up the ugly peeling linoleum from the bathroom... ...

South African Peach Pit Floors

Anyone who has accidentally bitten down on a peach pit knows how solid the blasted things are. Using them for flooring, then, doesn't require a stretch of the imagination — we employ and glam up c...

Blogging Sunset: Cork Floors

Apparently, we're not the only ones with cork on the brain. Cork is clearly the head cheerleader these days 'cause it's been popping up everywhere. We couldn't help but give a little hurrah when we ...

Cork Tile Revisited

Long before the days when we were part of the AT team, we sent in this question (Good Questions: A Cork Tile Dilemma) for a little help from the experts (aka AT readers). Being completely indecisive...

TileVault: Midcentury Rec Room "Tile"

What: Linoleum in a basement recording studio. Where: Seattle, WA When: Photo taken Thursday, January 3rd. Why: We love the orange, brown and green color scheme in interlocking squares and rectangle...

Hot or Not?: Puzzle Floor

Puzzle Floor...

Hot or Not?: Stairs by TAF

Stairs by TAF...

Hopscotch Floor Art by Domestic

We think it's finally time to admit that fall is here (but isn't Indian Summer supposed to last through the end of October in the Bay Area?) The change in seasons always makes us think back to the e...

Modular Liquid Floor Tiles by B.lab Italia

Funky. Walk (or dance) on these Modular Liquid Floor Tiles from B.lab Italia, and the liquid inside them shifts, so you can see your footprints. We don't know many people with the courage to actua...

Look!: Duct Taped Floor

Earlier today AT:NY blogged an amazing striped floor, created by Glasgow-based artist Jim Lambie out of vinyl tape. It reminded us that we'd just seen this duct tape floor created by ducttapeaddict...

ModuTiles Cork Flooring by Mio

We once became so disgusted with some dark, ugly, dirty industrial carpeting in an apartment's entry that we finally just ripped it out one day. We ended up putting down cheap strips of seagrass m...

EcoDomo Recycled Leather Tiles

Leather floor tiles: luxurious indulgence and insult to the planet, or eco-friendly alterna-floor? Not unlike milk paint, leather floors are an ancient trick, dating back to the House of Caveman. At...

China Black Slate

Our friend has the most beautiful slate floors in the kitchen, dining room, and living room of her Eichler. It turns out it's from Echeguren Slate, Inc. in San Francisco. She's used 16x16 squares ...

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