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Painted floorboards
Can’t decide whether or not to paint your floorboards? With checks, you don’t have to. When it comes to pattern, the options are more varied than you might think – diamond checkered floors can be especially chic. If you have the space, large diamonds are the way to go. The smaller the room, the smaller the checks should be.
Can’t decide whether or not to paint your floorboards? With checks, you don’t have to. When it comes to pattern, the options are more varied than you might think – diamond checkered floors can be especially chic. If you have the space, large diamonds are the way to go. The smaller the room, the smaller the checks should be.
Alison Kandler Interior Design
Black-and-white checks are a risk-free choice, but colour can be just as fetching. This colourful kitchen manages to keep its classic good looks but packs in personality plus with that fabulous feature floor. If you plan on taking the DIY route to paint your floors, a chalk line will be your new best friend. Do two to three coats of one colour to make the job less fiddly (purple, in this case) – then you’re just painting squares on top in another (in this case, green). Snap the chalk line across the floor at carefully measured intervals before taping the outside of every other row of diamonds across the room then get to work with your paint brush. What could possibly go wrong?
Discover how to be brave with colour
Discover how to be brave with colour
JWT Associates
Smaller squares work best in smaller areas, and a border can not only look elegant, it also makes the job of painting easier. Painting checks right up to the cupboards in this kitchen would be tricky to do neatly.
Hollester Interiors
Choosing the colour of your checks need not be an arduous task if you think first about the style of your home and then about how you want it to feel. A simple country kitchen might be better suited to black and white, while a house with a coastal theme can work better with gentler hues. Grey-blue and white, as in this kitchen space, could help create that light and airy relaxed feel you’re after in a coastal-style home.
D&J Kitchens and Baths Inc.
Checkered tiles
When tiles are as bright and bold as these, what’s not to love? This colour combination can work just as well in a country-style home as it can in one that leans more to the eclectic. Pick up the red with accessories and you’ve got yourself one eye-catching kitchen.
When tiles are as bright and bold as these, what’s not to love? This colour combination can work just as well in a country-style home as it can in one that leans more to the eclectic. Pick up the red with accessories and you’ve got yourself one eye-catching kitchen.
British Standard by Plain English
Black is back in a big way in kitchens, but too much black can make a kitchen feel dark and gloomy. White walls and a checkered floor that pairs black with a terracotta can add just the light and warmth a kitchen needs to feel more welcoming.
David Michael Miller Associates
Farmhouse kitchens are all the more authentic with checkered tiles. They’re easy to sweep or mop clean, can handle the rigours of family life and muddy paws, and are utterly charming to boot.
Goforth Gill Architects
Lovely lino
Tiles are nice, but linoleum is a hard-wearing and inexpensive alternative that’s even easier to keep clean. Lino has come a long way. It can look as chic as any tiled floor but is warmer underfoot and a little softer, too – so dropped dishes are less likely to break.
Tiles are nice, but linoleum is a hard-wearing and inexpensive alternative that’s even easier to keep clean. Lino has come a long way. It can look as chic as any tiled floor but is warmer underfoot and a little softer, too – so dropped dishes are less likely to break.
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If checkered floors in black and white are too jarring for you, why not tone things down. These Forbo Marmoleum Dual Tiles in ‘Serene Grey and Dark Bistre’ almost look like marble but have all the user- and eco-friendly benefits of lino.
Greg Natale
Marble tiles
Of course, marble itself is always an option for a luxe look. This Greg Natale-designed kitchen may be small, but its marble floor gives it instant elegance.
Of course, marble itself is always an option for a luxe look. This Greg Natale-designed kitchen may be small, but its marble floor gives it instant elegance.
Holly Mathis Interiors
Zoning checks
If you like the idea of checkered floors but your kitchen is part of an open-plan design or flows into a dining area, there’s no reason not to mix and match. A black-and-white kitchen floor can separate the area from a wider space, and feel far more intimate as a result.
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If you like the idea of checkered floors but your kitchen is part of an open-plan design or flows into a dining area, there’s no reason not to mix and match. A black-and-white kitchen floor can separate the area from a wider space, and feel far more intimate as a result.
See great ideas for decorating with geometrics
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What do you love about checkered floors? Share your thoughts and images in the Comments.
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