Interior design experts talk about what's hot in flooring now. Featuring Kelly Deck of Kelly Deck Design, Arren Williams the Creative Director of Home Fashions at Hudson's Bay Company and Anwar Mekhayech of The Design Agency.
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Flooring, for me, it’s all about beautiful rugs. Rugs are like art, for that fifth wall – which is the floor. So you could really find things that speak to your design personality. Whether you want something traditional, you could go for something like a Persian rug, a beautiful historic piece, like a really grand aruba. That kind of thing can actually look really perfect with contemporary furniture too. Or you can find things that are very modern and very unusual as well.
[Arren Williams the Creative Director of Home Fashions at Hudson's Bay Company]
I think we’re still at the tail-end of the reclaim. Everything reclaimed and the reclaimed wood so obviously the wide plank reclaimed flooring is still definitely “in”. But I think there’s also a little bit of a renaissance towards large format stone tile flooring. So people are getting a little bit more daring with some of their kitchens or living rooms. They’ll accent it with carpets or area rugs and go with a stone floor.
[Anwar Mekhayech of The Design Agency]
A fumed white oak in a wide plank with a matte finish – I love that we’re doing matte finishes because I feel like – again they’re much more honest and when they wear down, they rub – they show the story. The story of the people living there and they’re just much more livable than these high gloss sealed finished that we’ve been working with for the past decade. That’s generally what we’re seeing and of course, things like herringbones and chevrons are also coming back on trend. The key to those things is that you need be really careful with them in small spaces because they can be overwhelming. It’s not that they can’t work, but if the space is really broken up, it’s generally better to stick with a straight plank.
[Kelly Deck of Kelly Deck Designs]
