Here's the equivalent of home decor fried rice: Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder took all the Marmoleum leftover bits from their renovation projects, including from the bathrooms floors, bathroom counter tops and kitchen counter tops, and arranged the pieces altogether to create this beautiful patchwork kitchen floor...
Look: Leftover Marmoleum Kitchen Floor
In keeping with our eco design model, and just for the sheer fun of it, we’ve decided that the kitchen floor will be made up from all the leftover pieces of Marmoleum we’ve saved so far.The first part was the installation of a high quality sub-floor (similar to the bathrooms), consisting of maple plywood and a lot of staples.
Then we mocked up some layouts on the computer (complete with correct colors and textures), and settled on the one below.
All the photos and details of Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder's project here.
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I love the idea of it all! Way to go!
view swanygirl74's profile
wicked.cute. oh, and the floor is pretty cool too.. ;)
view animalhouze's profile
I want!
view bepsf's profile
It looks great! I think the process may have driven me crazy with the placement of the pieces:)
view rymon[][]'s profile
Nice. Like those light fixtures too.
view mdtown531's profile
I'm a huge fan of rendering things in photoshop before implementing a plan. I've done three rooms this way and think it takes almost all the guesswork out of things, which means fewer mistakes, fewer returns, and a happier me.
Way to go!
view kimg924's profile
VERY cool. cute hair, too. :)
view Erin Lang Norris/Yellow Canoe's profile
I like it!
view Melissa82's profile
This looks really great, way to go you.
view bobbin's profile
LOVE! And I also love the rough-looking cabinets.
view Ironsides's profile
Thanks for the post and comments! It was a lot of fun to do.
AT also did a tour of the house construction a while back if folks are interested.
Green Tour: Our Readers Build in Vermont
Albo
Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder
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@rymon[][]
It took less time than we thought actually. You start off with all these pieces, but then slowly whittle it down in sizes, color, placement etc., and pretty soon it's done!
@kimg924
Definitely! We've done that for a lot of the house construction and it's helped tremendously. A bit of rough Photoshop work goes a long way.
@Ironsides
The cabinets will eventually get face panels that will hide all the drawers and their contents. They'll probably be solid maple pieces.
Albo
Diary of a Vermont Eco Builder
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awesome!!!!
view I Love Upstate's profile
How did you receive or "reclaim" all those flooring samples? Curious
view LoriSF's profile
Super cool idea! Very good coor choice.
And the doggy seems real helpful =).
view SillyBug's profile
@LoriSF - Albo and I called a bunch of flooring places (especially ones that do a lot of commerical installations, where Marmoleum is more popular) and asked to see their remnants. You have to take the entire piece they've got left, but we got some amazing deals - less than $1 a square foot! We used that material to do our countertops and bathroom floors, and the leftovers from THOSE jobs ended up here in the kitchen. So glad you all like it!
view SisterRae's profile
This looks totally amazing. Wow!
view Anna at D16's profile
This looks great. I thought I wouldn't like the look but you did a fantastic job.
view Cynthia in SF's profile
Love it!!!!!
view suzy8track's profile
SisterRae that is a good use of remnants better than going into the landfill, great job and creative.
view LoriSF's profile
I like it. And it's green. Nice!
view Nevis's profile