“I’m taking over the world one downstairs loo at a time,” said Louise Wakefield of Beware the Moon, the new design house she created in partnership with her dad. She contends that the feature wall has had its day: “Now I want to see my designs in completely papered tiny rooms, nice and busy, like wallpaper should be.”

Flooring plays a crucial role in small-space decorating. Long, narrow, striped or patterned rubber floor tiles can lengthen a hallway, and wide stripes make small  rooms look more spacious. Something on the lines of the modern classic studded rubber floor tiles (500mm x 500mm, £8.99; 085451 24 24 10, ukflooringonline.com). The truly adventurous looking to add sparkle to a dingy room should check out the new hammered-metal briquettes from De Ferranti in glowing gold (10cm x 30cm, £499 per sq metre; 020 7384 4424, deferranti.com). Or, perhaps, a silver floor in engineered oak from the Salsa collection by Tarkett (Silver Star, £60 per sq metre; 01622 854151, tarkett-floors.com).

A couple of companies in Chicago have been cherry-picking schools to donate their surplus stock to. So good so far, but the prime company concerned supplies gym equipment and the other provides rubber flooring.

They hatched a plan to use the stock they no longer required (wrong colour or dimensions for commercial sale) to build school gyms in schools they felt were most deserving.

The idea being that kids behave and remember better with more physical activity. Well, that and there’s fewer sick days that get pulled!

Great idea, and nicer still was the fact that when called upon to comment – the companies concerned refused. It’s rare that the seemingly good guys refuse to take credit for doing good deeds.

That aside, it seems a great idea to use non-slip rubber flooring for fitness centres – and makes complete sense when you consider that they provide not only a non-slip, durable surface but their capacity to absorb impact for both noise reduction and preventing injuries makes it a sure fire winner in our books.

Have a look for yourself and see if you could use it too…

Source

The gurus of style have decreed that this is the way forward for making the most of your floor space to make a real style statement that’s as unique as you are. Sounds great, but surely it’s not a great long term investment.

Well, apparently so! All you need to do is pick your paper and then coat it with a vat load of polyurethane to protect it from general wear and tear. Saying that, obtaining such quantities of poly-fix-it might not be so simple. Nevertheless, we love the concept and really it’s no different from placing a big area rug down to cover undesirable flooring.

We’re thinking it’d be great for a runner down the stairs, the bedroom, a closet or kid’s room – but we’ve got to jog on to B&Q to pick our paper out first. Decisions, decisions!

If you’re thinking this funky flooring’s a bit too much effort, perhaps some nice knobbly round studded rubber flooring would make enough of a non-slip, room insulating statement instead.

We like it because there’s zero hassle – cut it to size and plonk it down. Job done. Or if you’re fussy you can use adhesive too – we won’t tell anyone that you’re not as laidback as you look!

Source

Additionally, they informed the public, that it was technically impossible for the animals to “fornicate”.

The advert itself gravitates around the notion that Cadbury’s Moro bar (similar to a Mars bar) is “New Zealand’s fourth favourite chocolate bar, allegedly” and features other ‘fourth best’ acts to show that first, second and third place winners are just boring.

The furore came about when the advert showed Thunderfoot, a horse that came fourth in the Melbourne Cup. Seen covering a mare, the Thunderfoot is narrated with the words “he won’t race again, he has better things to do.”

See the advert here, and celebrate not being a top three winner with your own equine chum with a pampered stall fit for (not quite!) a champion.

Kit out his stable with a swanky new rubber flooring mat and his hooves’ll thank you forever!

Did you know you that you can make a rubber tile floor look freshly waxed by adding 250ml of fabric softener to 1/2 bucket of lukewarm water?

The fastest method to clean a rubber tile floor is to utilise an all-purpose cleaning solution. Read the product label for precautionary measures, and always test it in a corner before using it on the entire floor.

It’s easy to remove heel marks or other indentations from a rubber tile by dipping fine-grade (000) steel wool in liquid floor wax. Rub the region gently, and wipe away with a damp cloth. Solvent-based products can soften and damage a rubber tile floor so please be careful. Also, keep scouring pads, strong detergents, and hot water away from rubber tiles.

Flooding the floor with water will cause big problems; excess water can loosen the adhesives that hold down the flooring.

Cleaning your rubber tile floor makes it shine