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STEP INSIDE LIVING SPACES


The Comfort Zone


Alice Dunbar, Marketing & Interiors Specialist at vinyl flooring supplier


Harvey Maria, explains how flooring can help create zones within living areas of a home.


As well as rooms being established by the structure of your house, it’s often the case that areas of your home are split naturally into ‘zones’. Children may seem to enjoy playing at one end of the living room, for example, or perhaps you’ve dedicated your dining area to the sunniest part of the kitchen. Either room-to-room or in a single multi-functional space, flooring can help to turn these zones into a gorgeous design using a combination of complementary floorcoverings, giving the home a luxuriously custom-made feel.


How can flooring help to define open-plan living spaces?


To define and add a sense of purpose to open-plan living spaces, flooring can be split into 'zones', stylishly defined using a number of complementary patterns and colours. You are likely to find that natural zones will occur in the home. Letting these zones influence your home's interior is a brilliant way to ensure that everything feels balanced, natural, and totally bespoke. Harvey Maria's Signature collection has been developed around the concept of 'unified design', incorporating designer patterns, plain colours and wood effect tiles that can be combined freely to create a completely unique space.


In larger open-plan spaces, such as a combined kitchen and dining room or even a studio apartment, flooring zones are a beautiful alternative to partition walls or room dividers. They serve a very similar purpose, whilst retaining a space's desirable open-plan properties and helping it appear larger as a result.


How can you effectively zone key areas, such as kitchens, dining space, seating, alongside high footfall areas like hallways?


As well as defining zones in one open-plan space, you can apply the same technique between connecting rooms, harmonising your décor so that it flows seamlessly through your home. I'd recommend choosing one key colour or a wood-effect floor, and using this as a carrier for areas of pattern and colour. For example, laying down Harvey Maria's Antique Oak in the hallway, and continuing this through to an adjoining dining space as a border around a pattern such as Dee Hardwicke's Lattice Hay Field. If the dining room then connects to a kitchen, Antique Oak could continue through,


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