Browse Forums Interior Decorating Lounge 1 Mar 30, 2010 5:33 am What design benefits would I/You use a border tile or timber around a room with inlayed carpet? What would be the most beneficial reason to do this? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Take a good look at this photo of a house I did 15 years ago. What was the main reason I would have put the tile around this room? Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Question for the day. 2Mar 30, 2010 6:10 am Michelle, Does a "boarder" tile pay more for water views? Re: Question for the day. 3Mar 30, 2010 6:22 am rubber_noggin Michelle, Does a "boarder" tile pay more for water views? One cup of coffee only so far!! Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Question for the day. 4Mar 30, 2010 6:39 am To stop wear and tear on the carpet. Also, most mud, sand goes onto the tiles with the first few steps. If the owners or visitors are like me, I wouldnt walk on the carpet but rather around the tile area Mrs B Re: Question for the day. 5Mar 30, 2010 9:08 am LOL Mrs B. I would spend my whole time telling the kids to walk on the tiles. I've seen it done in some "passive solar" houses, where the owner didn't want the entire floor tiled but still wanted some of the thermal benefits of the tiles. Not sure how effective that is though. I quite like the look...we were thinking of doing it in our house, but decided to just put rugs down if and where we wanted them. 'chelle We have a hand-over date...15/10...but I won't hold my breath! http://people-in-glass-houses.blogspot.com/ Re: Question for the day. 6Mar 30, 2010 11:31 am Hi Michelle, would another reason be that because of those views you would have no or want no window dressings, at least during the day .. and the tiles in those areas would help offset the sun fading carpet??? When we built our first home, we did a large carpet inlay as we had lashed out on timber floors, but it was very expensive for us, so we made a large carpet inlay where we would have put the rug We saved on about 7 metres square of timber .... and bought a lovely thick, leftover carpet remnant for the inlay which was professionally laid when they came to carpet the rest of our house. At the time we thought we were so clever .. Re: Question for the day. 7Mar 30, 2010 12:29 pm I googled it and came up with the following: "The reliance on tile in the flooring of homes is almost as old as dirt floors, with examples of ceramic floor tile traced back to Asia as early as the 4th millennium B.C. The ancient Romans had a special fondness for tile flooring and introduced the making of tile throughout their occupied territories in Western Europe. Although the practice of tile making went into eclipse along with the Roman Empire, the art was revived in 12th-century Europe by Cistercian monks, who used tile for cathedral and church floors. The tile were then known as “inlaid tile,” as they used from two to six different colors of clay to form a pattern that was inlaid into the tile, thus ensuring that, as the tiles were worn down by foot traffic, their design would remain. The enthusiasm for inlaid tile waned with the coming of the Reformation in the 16th century, but another resurgence in tile’s popularity arose in Europe by the mid-19th century, thanks largely to England’s Herbert Minton, the father of the modern tile industry. It was then that this tile came to be known as “encaustic” because of its resemblance to enamel work (a technical misnomer that has nevertheless stuck)." Re: Question for the day. 9Mar 30, 2010 3:11 pm Michelle What design benefits would I/You use a border tile or timber around a room with inlayed carpet? What would be the most beneficial reason to do this? Like ⋅ Add a comment ⋅ Pin to Ideaboard ⋅ Take a good look at this photo of a house I did 15 years ago. What was the main reason I would have put the tile around this room? I think because you can get a lot of condensation near windows which wouldn't be great for the carpet edge Re: Question for the day. 10Mar 30, 2010 5:03 pm Hi everyone! All the points pointed out above by you all are viable reasons to border a room in tiles…..except for mickve, although that could work also! One of the main reasons to do this is to stop the break down of carpet from the full sun around the edges next to windows. Sun coming through glass is very hot and carpet wears down over a period of time when this happens. Although the rest of the carpet in a room can be very good, around the glass will become brittle and fade eventually ripping. This then means all of the carpet needs to be replaced. By bordering in timber or tiles prevents this from happening. Well done all…… Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Question for the day. 11Mar 30, 2010 5:15 pm But a disadvantage would be in matching the tiles up if you no longer wanted the carpeted area, we did consider using a tiled boarder in a rumpus/theater room but decided that a large rug would work better. Cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys Re: Question for the day. 12Mar 30, 2010 5:20 pm It’s not for everyone Lou, and there is only 2 rows of tiles to take up if you didn’t want the look again. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Question for the day. 13Mar 30, 2010 5:29 pm Michelle It’s not for everyone Lou, and there is only 2 rows of tiles to take up if you didn’t want the look again. We are running the same tile through out the house, so it would have been a huge problem later if we changed our minds . Cheers Lou http://take2-customdesigndownslope.blogspot.com 07-10-09 omg they have cut the block 14-05-10 we finally have the keys Re: Question for the day. 14Mar 30, 2010 5:33 pm take2 Michelle It’s not for everyone Lou, and there is only 2 rows of tiles to take up if you didn’t want the look again. We are running the same tile through out the house, so it would have been a huge problem later if we changed our minds . Cheers Lou I’m sure it’s stunning and you will be very happy with your decisions. Internal and External Building and Colour Consultant Online - Worldwide http://www.denovoconcepts.com Re: Question for the day. 15Mar 30, 2010 10:14 pm Hi Michelle The best way for me to answer your question is to refer you to this old thread (March 2008) from when we were trying to decide whether or not to go down the tiled border route: viewtopic.php?f=31&t=15687 As you know, from another recent thread, we decided to do it. I'm really glad we went with it as we love it now - for all the reasons others have mentioned. Cheers zeke Re: Question for the day. 16Mar 31, 2010 7:56 am i was also thinking that where a doorway was it might stop the initial trooping of dirt in on to a light carpet. 4 6816 you need to understand the breakdown of warranties. 90 warranty is considered as minor defects rectification period where as the longer ones are more major/structural… 1 5327 Yes you are correct, unless there are outside works which form part of the contract such as landscaping or driveways, and importantly, the work delayed is on the critical… 1 3511 |