Floor Transitions and Focal Points
Here’s Another Affordable Idea to Enhance Your Living Space: Create floor transitions and focal points to visually define space and create architectural character.
Today’s cost-conscious consumers want easy and inexpensive ways to enhance their living spaces without breaking the bank. Florida Custom Homebuilder Jorge Ulibarri says anyone can add affordable architectural elements that give a home that custom look on a budget. One of Jorge’s most stunning and functional design ideas starts underfoot with floor transitions.
Floor transitions are subtle details that define and separate spaces while enhancing the floors. It’s a design element or embellishment that visually marks a spatial boundary or highlights an architectural detail. Transitions are design details that are often overlooked but are the mark of a well- built, well-designed home.
The floor medallion is an inexpensive floor transition that carries high visual value.
Installing floor medallions to high traffic areas of the home is an easy way to update an existing floor or customize a new one. Floor medallions serve as eye-catching focal points to define and highlight a space. Jorge uses two types of floor medallions in his homes: wood inlaid and travertine mosaic.
Expect to pay approximately $500-$600 for a travertine mosaic floor medallion and $1200 for a wood inlaid medallion. Floor medallions are unique and elegant-something you don’t find in many custom homes and is sure to give any home a signature look.
Mosaic mats made of travertine or stone also visually delineate different rooms.
Jorge recommends travertine mosaics as an ideal choice for floor transitions because they are affordable, easy to install, and have a lot of design potential. These mosaic mats can serve as “rugs” to transition from room to room such as the hallway to the formal living room or kitchen to family room. Consider placing mosaic mats under the archways to separate the rooms in an open floor plan and to announce the boundaries from one room to the next. This floor transition typically comes in 12-inch by 12-inch mats and cost approximately $10 per square foot. The installation runs around $120 a transition.
Wood floor planks that frame a space are another option.
Envision placing wood floor planks around the perimeter of a room and fill in the floor space with travertine or carpet. Wood floor planks can pull from the beams and tongue and groove ceilings to create a lot of warmth and old world ambiance. For more affordable design ideas to add luxury to your living space, subscribe to the video series, Trade Secrets by Jorge, available on YouTube
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Love the medallions. So nice…
Reblogged this on Phillip Deems and commented:
What a great article from Karen LeBlanc. I want to implement floor transitions in my home.
Very nice. I would like to have one at our front entry way.