by Arimar | Jan 10, 2017 | Arimar International, Blogs, Iberian Collection
The Well Traveled Look Global Design Style
Colorful hues and big, bold patterns, with influences from South America, are behind the latest home and interior décor trends, including hardwood floors. More and more, consumers want to adopt some sense of personalized history and authenticity to their homes. Designers are taking their cue from this trip through design styles from around the continent, giving spaces a personal touch.
This trend is joyful, colorful and vibrant. The result is an unexpected style with re-purposed product design, spontaneous improvisation, and an eclectic mix of color and pattern. Some of the items you might see trending inspired by this big, bold trend are: scrap wood re-purposed as wallpaper, a fan reclaimed as a lamp, cork and felt transformed into a rug, recycled skateboards made into stools, bulbs recreated into a vase. Handcrafted wood flooring, such as the Valencia Rustic White Oak from our Iberian Collection pictured above, with authentic wire-brushed finishes lend themselves well to this new trend.
Pictured: scrap wood repurposed as wallpaper by Piet Hein Eek
This design style is characterized by ornate accessories and details. A reclaimed and repurposed design agenda is inspired and reinforced by the exuberant energy of a fusion of cultures. Important materials include reclaimed woods, handcrafted wood flooring, brightly colored woven and knitted yarn constructions, cork, scuffed leather and bamboo. The strength of inspiration which derives from global art, cultural motifs and specialized techniques can be applied to all manner of colors, textiles and decoration – from accents, decors, wall treatments, rugs, cushions, throws, towels and bed linens. What emerges is truly unique and show stopping.
by Arimar | Jan 4, 2017 | Blogs, Floor Art Collection
Turn Inspiration Into Your Perfect Floor
As we welcome the new year, Turn Inspiration Into Your Perfect Floor, we welcome new trends in home décor. Flooring is no exception. Choosing the perfect flooring can be a challenge. With Arimar’s online Room Planner, we make the decision for you and your clients a little easier. Here’s how it works:
Choose a room from the gallery
Whether living room, dining room, kitchen or bedroom, the Room Planner lets you envision what your design in mind will look like in a space. The ‘laying angle’ tool allows you to play around with different angles of laying wood flooring planks – 0 degrees, 45 degrees, 90 degrees and 135 degrees.
Find flooring inspiration from our collections
Once you select the room you want to design, you can browse our collections of wood flooring products and customize your flooring. This is a great tool to use when visiting with clients. The Room Planner lets you also filter by your choice color palette – light medium and dark hued wood. You can also filter by product line. Based on the selection, the Room Planner gives you alternative products to browse as well. For example, if a client wants to see what a dark wood chevron flooring would look like in their living room, you would select the following:
Gallery: Living Room
Products: Coloring – Dark; Product Line – Smoked Brushed Oak Rustic
Compare various colors and styles side-by-side
Want to see what a light or medium color wood would look like versus a dark wood? The ‘Compare’ tool allos you to select different options and view how the rooms would look side-by-side. This is especially useful for clients who aren’t sure about color, in particular when it comes to dark wood, which can often cause some hesitation among homeowners. Continuing with the above example, you could choose the following for comparison:
Gallery: Living Room
Products: Coloring – Medium; Product Line – Watzmann Rustic European White Oak
Voila, a side-by-side comparison of the same living room with two different flooring options:
Pictured: Rossell Rustic European White Oak on the left; Watzmann Rustic European White Oak on the right
Create projects
Create, store and share different ideas with different points of inspiration by saving projects in the ‘My Favorites’ folder. way, they can go back and look at the designs they’ve made and share their ideas to get opinions and ideas from family and friends as they make their decision.
