Jul 07 2007
Flor Tiles: Good for Brooklyn Apartments
I’m not the first of my friends to buy Flor tiles, but now that I’ve "installed" them for myself, I give them two thumbs up. Given a New Yorker’s penchant for moving, it’s hard to say what shape your next apartment will be and Flor tiles seem to eliminate the fear that the carpet you buy for your apartment today won’t work in your next space. (They also stack nice and small in the case you want to store them.) We got the Rugby Stripe for our "dining room"–aka, the side of the living room where we have a table. My one complaint is that they come in 19.7" squares, and that made us have to go a bit bigger than we would have liked (12" squares would have been perfect).
Installation. Put down squares and then use these little sticky dots to connect the squares together to hold the rug in place:
The finished product sans table:
The finished product with furniture:
3 Responses to “Flor Tiles: Good for Brooklyn Apartments”
Those look super cool, and I hadn’t heard about them yet. I’m definitely going to check out that site.
They look interesting. Did you buy them online? Are they sold locally?
Yep, online–you can order samples of the tiles you’re interested in before you buy a whole set. I saw some in the Crate & Barrel catalog, but I don’t think you can buy them in the store.