I made an amazing quantity of headway on the house health club ground this weekend, and I obtained the FLOR carpet tiles put in in the entire room aside from the closet space. And I’m completely thrilled with how these look! I used the Rush Street FLOR carpet tiles in black, and I took an opportunity by ordering them with out ordering samples first. However my gamble paid off, as a result of I really like how they appear!
I nonetheless should do one thing about that transition strip, however extra on that in a second.
I can be including quarter spherical or shoe molding (most likely quarter spherical) to the baseboards to cowl over areas like this the place the tiles didn’t cowl proper as much as the wall. Slicing carpet strips that tiny could be enormous ache, however quarter spherical will cowl proper over that.
Again to the transition strip. I’ve two on this room — one coming from the hallway and one going into the toilet. My preliminary thought was to match the stain on the one going into the hallway to match the hardwood ground within the hallway.
However then I’ve this different one going from the black FLOR carpet tiles to a white marbled tile toilet ground.
So to maintain issues constant, I’ve determined to stain each of them black to match the FLOR carpet tiles as an alternative. And I’ve already examined Matt’s wheelchair over the transition strips, and it goes over them with ease.
I do know I’ve solely had these carpet tiles down for a few days, however I’m completely offered on FLOR carpet tiles. I completely love the best way they appear.
And putting in them was nearly as simple as a DIY venture can get. I used to be going to take step-by-step photos for a little bit tutorial, however there’s no want. Significantly. You place one tile down. You place sticky squares on the again edge. You place one other tile down subsequent to it caught to the identical sticky squares in order that the 2 tiles are caught collectively. Repeat. 😀 And for those who’re putting in wall-to-wall like I did, simply use a utility knife with a brand new sharp razor blade and a straight edge to chop the tiles.
It significantly couldn’t get any simpler, and the result’s actually phenomenal. And whereas it’s not precisely speedy gratification, you may get an entire room achieved in a day (so long as you’re not having to cope with subfloor points, like I’m).
I wished a black ground since it is a dwelling health club, nevertheless it’s undoubtedly very black and really darkish. It does make the room really feel darker, however for the reason that partitions are so vivid and cheerful, I don’t have an issue with the room feeling a little bit darker.
Cooper, our very hyper 100-pound canine, has already examined it out as properly. I used to be leaping on my rebounder Saturday evening, and I let him are available in right here with me. He began operating and spinning and doing all types of sudden begins and stops. None of that had any impact in any respect on the carpet squares. They didn’t separate (these sticky squares actually are tremendous sticky). They didn’t transfer or shift. They didn’t snag. Aside from just a few soiled paw prints (he had been exterior prior), they appeared completely positive after he completed taking part in and left the room. And people soiled paw prints vacuumed proper up.
So I’m an enormous FLOR fan now! They’re not precisely low-cost. I purchased 100 tiles for this room (I believe I’ll have 5 left over, which I’ll be glad to have readily available in case I want to interchange one), and with transport and tax, it got here to simply over $1600.
So it’s not an inexpensive possibility, however I do suppose there’s reality in “you get what you pay for.” I attempted to go a budget route the primary time, and spent solely about $225 for foam tiles for the entire room. (After I purchased them, they had been cheaper than they’re now.) And all of us noticed how that labored out. They didn’t look nearly as good. The health club gear left actually dangerous dents within the foam, they usually didn’t come out even days later. And Cooper poked a gap within the foam ground the primary time he got here in right here.
However these carpet squares look nice, match collectively completely (no jigsaw puzzle-looking seams like with the froth ground), they usually appear fairly indestructible. So whereas they’re significantly dearer than the froth dwelling health club ground tiles that I initially tried to make use of, I believe the added expense can be value it. And since they maintain as much as my huge, hyper canine, I’ve little question that they’ll maintain up completely to Matt’s wheelchair.
Addicted 2 Adorning is the place I share my DIY and adorning journey as I rework and adorn the 1948 fixer higher that my husband, Matt, and I purchased in 2013. Matt has M.S. and is unable to do bodily work, so I do the vast majority of the work on the home on my own. You can learn more about me here.
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