5,539 Views - Click for Slideshow Most of the rugs, carpets and other floor decor you’ll find in stores are, well, boring. Standard shapes, predictable patterns, cringe-worthy colors--it’s enough to drive a creative interior designer mad. The floor decor you’ll see in this cluster defies these boring preconceptions. You’ll see flooring that glows, will gross you out, or talk to you. You’ll find rugs that emulate luxury, inspire learning and invite lounging. Take a look at the funky floor decor that fuels quirky interior designers from all over the world. Via: trendhunter

Campaigns To Make Carpets Appealing (GALLERY)

The Fun on the Floor House

Reigniting the carpet category, "Fun on the Floor" is trying to make carpet fun again. A collective of carpet manufacturers, distributors and retailers have joined forces to promote the benefit of carpet…

Fake Blood Carpets (GALLERY)

The Fluid Stairway

The Fluid Stairway concept from Bosch & Fjord is really simple, but a totally different approach to carpeting and flooring in stair wells. By their nature, stairs carry and sweep people throughout buildings,…
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Sensacell Floor Tracks Footprints in Real Time

Remember the scenes in Michael Jackson’s video for ‘Billie Jean’ where he danced and the floor lit up underneath him? Thanks to Sensacell, you can be like Mike every day--minus the moves and the red leather…
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Giant Carpets (GALLERY)

The "300 Knitted Carpet" by Sebastian Schoenheit

Knitting on two needles about a foot long takes time to complete. Imagine the time Sebastian Schoenheit, a German designer, took just to knit part of his carpet project using giant needles, almost as tall…

Crime Scene Carpets

Die Innenarchitektin

Designed by the German company CubeSeven, the Crime Scene carpet (Die Innenarchitektin in German) will truly put a deadly mark wherever it's placed. The carpet comes in the shape of a dead body laying…

Floors Inspired by Traffic Flow (GALLERY)

Dimension Laminate

Dimension flooring is a graphically designed flooring determined not by a craftsman's creativity, but by the pattern of traffic flow in a particular living space. Alistair Bramley came up with this concept…

Giant Fake Grass Toys

Playground Carpet

Children have boundless energy but they need somewhere to play safe. Rolling around in a small room full of plastic balls has been a popular favourite for years, but now here is a fun and portable alternative…

Fake Wood Floors

Ding300 Rug

If you like the look of hardwood floors but don't want to sacrifice the comfort a carpet brings to your frosty winter toes, Ding3000 has the ultimate solution! The Pvcfransending rug looks like hardwood,…

Interactive Glowing Rugs

High Tech Flooring

Now it's time flooring got really cool with a new range of prototype rugs which glow when you step on it. I really want one right this instant. Invented by Leona Dean of London's South Bank University…

Interactive Floors (GALLERY)

Wisdom Well for Fun Learning

The Wisdom Wells floors were created by Kasper Neilson and Ole Iverson for children who have difficulty fitting into the classroom environment and can't sit and listen for many hours. Helping the children…

Tiles Monitor and Shout at You

Talking Floors For Dieters

There is no place to run or hide!!! Spanish ceramics company Tau Cerámica collaborated with inventor Pep Torres to create these infernal Diet Floor Tiles, which have weight sensors and a CPU that controls…

Cashmere Carpet

Goat Belly Fur for $2000 / sq. yd.

Two words that mean ultra-luxury: cashmere carpet. One Step to Heaven is woven from 100% cashmere, goat belly fleece called officially the "duvet." As you can imagine, it is exceptionally fine and rare.…

Light Focuses the Blur of Materials

Luminar Tiles

As with most products in he marketplace today there is a glut of products and the only way to differentiate is to be either cheap or "remarkable" according to author Seth Godin. Graniti Fiandre lets…

Rug Art Exhibit (GALLERY)

Floor Guests With Mark Mothersbaugh's Creations

Mark Mothersbaugh, one of the founding member of the band DEVO, is holding an exhibit featuring rugs as a medium of contemporary expression. Dubbed "Rugs During Wartime and Peacetime," Motherbaugh describes…

Whimsical Art Tiles

JuJu Design Snow Print Ceramic Tile

These are two young designers whose names I cannot pronounce, but whose design concepts I immediately get. Both Tuukka Tujula and Maija Puoskari are members of the design collective JuJu Design Party,…

Electric Heated Rug (GALLERY)

Winterize Your Floors With Panasonic

It's time to say "good bye" to those Popsicle toes! If you have hardwood floors, then you know how uncomfortable your feet can get in the winter. Anyone susceptible to cold toes can rejoice now thanks…

Sofa Floor Rugs

Rick Lee has elevated the rug to a new status - kind of a quasi-upholstery for his Dune Sleeper sofa. The rug spills over the sofa onto the floor, doing double duty. The rug works with the sofa in any…

Gross Bathroom Decorating With Fallen Hair Tile Designs

Saara Kaatra has designed bathroom tiles decorated with images of fallen hair. You know the kind of hair that gets left behind after a good shower? Well, these tiles give your entire bathroom floor a fallen-hair…

fLORA-flex Tile is the New Brick

From The Brick Exhibition

On 24 May 2007, "Brick: the exhibition" will showcase the future of the brick at the Groot Handelsgebouw in Rotterdam. The exhibition features bricks that go well beyond the traditional blocks around…

Flying Carpet

3D Rug For Maximum Lounging

I want one of these so much. Called the flying carpet this awesome bit of design is basically a 3D rug you can lounge about on whilst watching tv, playing games, or in fact doing anything else that crosses…

Interactive Tables and Floors (VIDEO)

Catchyoo's Cool Projection System

Catchyoo, Japanese company brings an entirely new way of interactive advertisement to the world. The company offers the interactive advertising that you can promote your brand on floors, walls, tables,…

Intelligent Carpet Can Autodiscriminate

A NEW FORM OF automated prejudice is set to make business decision-making far more efficient. The intelligent carpet, invented in Japan, can tell ... the age, sex and weight of the person walking across…

Digital Printed Floors and Wallpaper

Digital imaging offers the ability to create fantastic images and use them in new ways by creating spaces to transform perceptions and indeed create whole new environments. We now have the ability to put…

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