Designing From The Floor Up

Flooring is the largest uninterrupted surface in most interiors, and yet, it’s the one surface that people treat like an afterthought.

Paint samples are agonised over. Sofas are auditioned like stage actors. And coffee table books are carefully positioned to look as if they had just been set down artistically. But here’s the twist: the floor doesn’t just sit there politely holding up the furniture. It actively shapes the energy of a room and much of that power comes down to one thing – lighting.
Light behaves very differently depending on what it lands on. The floor, because of its sheer surface area, becomes a kind of stage where light performs all day long. Morning sun grazes it, afternoon light spreads across it, and artificial lighting at night can either flatter or flatten it entirely.

Read more in the May issue…