Designing a home to have an ‘open floor-plan’ is always a challenge. While working on the construction drawings for this project, we thoughtfully considered how each material choice would impact the finished space. The solution to connecting these spaces rather than chopping them up was to install a dramatically patterned floor in the entry hall, dining room, kitchen, living room, family room, pantry, halls, and powder room.
Flooring has a major impact to the overall design of this home and creates an expansive feel. The material and pattern connect each space and the eye follows to the next. While a flooring choice could overwhelm any design, this one makes a grand background for the furnishings and carpets in the living spaces, and the stone and lacquer and steel in the kitchen. This is a custom stain color on Canadian Maple laid in a herringbone pattern.
