Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Kids room flooring....

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

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What a great idea.  When I was a child (many more than 30 years ago:-)
braided rugs were in every room.

Trudy

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From: Andrew Netherton <andrewnetherton [at] gmail.com>
To: Cohousing-L <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2006 3:05:23 PM
Subject: Re: [C-L]_ Kids room flooring....


Back 30+ years ago when I was born a friend of my mother's made me a
throw rug out or scraps of fabric.  It's called a braided rug - it
looks like a huge flat coil of braided fabric.  (See
http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=braided%20rug for many, many
examples.)

In any case, this rug has lasted.  It needs a good cleaning right now,
but is in as good a shape now as I've ever known it to be.  It's 100%
post-consumer content, recyclable (where you have textile recycling,
anyways), resilient (good protection for little noggins from hard
floors), and quite colourful.  No offgassing (assuming you use natural
fibre fabrics), just the need to be rolled up and taken to a
commercial laundromat once in a while.  Flop it down on top of
whatever flooring you've got and have at it!

Once our cohousing development moves in (many years hence,
unfortunately) this is the kind of roll-on-the-floor surface I'll be
suggesting to our group.  Hey, maybe if I start now, I can have a few
rugs done by the time we move in... :)

Andrew Netherton
Laurel Creek Commons (forming)
Waterloo, ON, Canada