home design/interior decorator mavens, please sit up and take notice! today above all days is the day i'd love for you to give me your opinion. anyone else who has installed a white floor, please feel free as well.
bleached hand-scraped walnut: not an optionfor some time i've been trying to figure out what to do about the cream carpet that covers my stairs and three bedrooms + loft area upstairs. it was in fairly new condition when i moved in and i had it steam cleaned, but something about it just bothers me. while i pondered this dilemma over the past two years, i've collected tons of photos of white floors, my favorite being the bleached walnut floors i saw in a spread of giada de laurentis' gorgeous home in architectural digest. at first i thought i would go this route, and while it's the perfect shade of wood to seamlessly transition from the travertine downstairs, financially it isn't practical. there are so many other things i want to do to the house, and so i came to the conclusion that i'd like it to be easy and not too hard on my pocketbook.
if this image from carolyn quartermaine's home were made of paper, it would be dogeared from the number of times i've looked at it over the past couple of years...i went back and forth about the concept of white concrete floors. what if i slip and fall? it will be cold getting into bed. what if i ruin the resale value of my house? then i got over it.
i ordered this headboard and it arrived cracked twice, so i finally had to abandon the idea, but the floors grew on me.
via marie claire maisoni'm not worried about keeping white floors clean, i.e. the daily once-over they'll need (i'm a clean freak by nature), but i do have two major concerns. first, the
fumes from the expoxy--how toxic are they? i don't want to be living in a poisonous environment. obviously this means white laminate is out. second: will there be
skid marks every time i pull out a chair? does this mean an eames rocker is out of the question on this kind of floor? what happens when you rearrange the furniture (which i do on a regular basis)?
via {this is glamorous}sadly, this is not the view from my house, but almost the identical one from my mom's. she's old-school though and would never consider white cement, ever. but for me, i like the look of a white floor for my house, not so much for the austerity, but because it would fit into the slight beach feel that has slowly permeated my once leaning-toward-the-modern space. this weekend i was in a store near the beach that had white painted brick flooring. it was very charming.
one of my favorite shots from dominoi also looked into white cork. it seems to be available, but is more off-white than white and i'm concerned about it all matching once it's laid down as i read on a cork website that color varies between pieces.
finally, not to get too fancy but there's also the high-gloss option:
via apartmenttherapy (with quite a few interesting comments) okay all you talented and brilliant readers...what's your take?
