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FLOORING OPTIONS design dream With Cassandra Fenaughty Cassandra Fenaughty is a landscape architect with more than 20 years’ experience. She is the founder and owner of an innovative renovation design consultancy, creating photo-real renovation concepts for clients looking to visualise their dream renovation before it begins. For more visit cassandrafenaughty.com.
Our home is 15 years young and has white tiles throughout, along with a lovely deep camel colour carpet. As its time for an update I’d like to ask your opinion on white tiles meets vinyl floorboards. We have many tiles throughout our fourbedroom home. In the kids’ area there are three bedrooms and an activity room. We are thinking of pulling up the existing carpet and tiles and replacing with a light colour wooden floorboard vinyl. We would like your thoughts on tiles meets vinyl floorboards. Do you think they go together or would it clash? The activity room has a perimeter of white tiles and a large carpet square in the middle of the room. You would still see a hallway of white tiles and as you enter the doorway to each bedroom, and the activity room, the flooring would change. Any thoughts would be appreciated. Thanks Kym
CASSANDRA SAYS: Thanks for your query. Flooring questions are always common in my renovation consultations and designs. I’s always hard for clients to know where to start and stop new finishes and how to tie in new and existing
floor coverings. Luckily for you it sounds like your existing white tiles are in good enough condition to retain, and are a neutral colour that will match with other finishes. Given that it is only the three bedrooms and an activity area that need reflooring, a different finish in these areas will look fine, as
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