Cory Cook
So if you are renovating or just bought your first home and have a limited budget or even about to sell and want to make them lets say disappear there are ways read on…. Lucky for you, there are ways around minimising the visual impact of terracotta floor tiles if it’s not in the budget to have them removed. I see this quite a bit in my styling work, and have figured out a few failsafe ways of drawing attention away from your bad floors and toward the better parts of your home. We’re talking taking rugs large enough to go almost to the edge of room – it’s a quick and easy way of re-flooring without the cost that goes with it.
I also endeavour to draw peoples’ eyes up in a room – not to the ground – with careful use of mirrors, art and lighting. More and more I’m finding most people don’t even notice the terracotta tiles once we have been in, they’re too busy looking at the rest of the space and how well it works.
Terracotta has a lot of pink and orange in it, so it’s good practice to avoid these colours (and any red wood) in the same room as the tiles. For walls, you want to add light colours with no yellow or reds in the paint pigment, accented with with bright white trim, blinds and shutters to help distract the eye away. Don’t bring dark or light wood into the room to furnish it if possible, as it too draws out the colours in the terracotta to seem brighter than at they are.
