ZIG ZAG CARPET — Hello Robin Clark

BEFORE

Before? I teased the ZIG ZAG CARPET in the last post, so I’m jumping out of logical order with this post about that detail before I talk about the ADDITION itself.

ADDITION BUMP-OUT

We added about 230 sq ft inside that feels like WAY MORE than that.

Before this project, we had an oversized back porch that never saw any action. Essentially, we knocked down that porch and extended the house onto it’s footprint, also adding a satellite mudroom space. Dubbed (by Mike) ‘THE GROOVE STATION’, this space is all about music. My family piano (a Chickering from 1876 y’all) gets room to breathe here; the only other furniture will be a mobile DJ Station for spinning from our 2500+ vinyl collection. Suffice to say: this room is designed for movement. The carpet reflects that.

[ DJ Station is delayed due to the COVID 19 scene. If I run out of house to blog about, I might show all my SketchUp designs for it here later.]

My SketchUp Model

ARCHITECT'S RENDER

FLOR Builder

Our architect had used a pre-designed FLOR carpet called BIPPITY BOPPITY in the drawings. Initially I thought of it as a placeholder while I focused on choosing everything else. In time, I could see no other carpet in the space and worked on extending it from an area rug to a full on permanent feature.

LOW PILE. MAX STYLE.

CARPET PUZZLE

What a total thrill it was to finally open all those carpet boxes and plot out the reality. With the house still full of boxes and other construction elements, there was not much space for this to happen.

NOT FOR THE COLOR BLIND

8 different flavors to keep straight.

DID I GET ENOUGH?

MIRROR TRANSITION

Another design motif here at the Clarks.

CREEPY SHOPVAC

There it is again!

Maybe you’re starting to absorb the ZIGZAG motif that flows through the first floor. Slanted and Enchanted, allright! I pounded all those carpet pieces into place myself while Mike was at Jicks practice. JimBob, who was on Tom Champion’s crew, was here working on other bits, but I was ALL about micro-managing that carpet. I LOVE PUZZLES. I had watched the crew install our Master Bedroom carpet tiles months before, so was not a total newb about the process.

All that pre-planning def paid off. The new space had been filled to the gills with construction stuff and was transformed in a matter of minutes. We were finally getting to feel what it would truly be like to live this way.

OBSESSED

This carpet makes COVID quarantine dance parties of 2 much more fun.

INSTA READY

From all angles.