INSPIRATION AND SCALE

A forgotten scarf holding back some bedroom curtains in a now-empty house. The stories it could tell!

I have been unable to throw this away, despite knowing I would never wear it. What drew the owner to buy it, or was it a gift?

As a designer of carpet tiles, mentally converting images into 500mm x 500mm squares is something that can happen without intention and this is what happened here.

Once the thought was there, I put small samples of lateral and balance greyscale together to replicate the hound’s tooth-type effect.

This isn’t typically used as a large scale flooring option, but swapping each small piece of carpet for a full 500mm x 500mm tile creates a straight forward module of 21 tiles. At 3.5m wide, each ‘tooth’ is offset over the large space indicated above.

Using a selection of different colours could alter the look/function between areas – subtly in furnished areas and more dramatically for atriums or large thoroughfares. The large scale means the effect isn’t too busy or challenging to walk on, or work in, but it remains high impact.

Something so large scale inspired by the forgotten scarf….the contrast is toned down to create a more user friendly floor suggestion, but the flower motif also gives highlight colour suggestions that may otherwise not have been considered.

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