Having lived with the carpet in the house when we bought it, the time had come to replace, refresh...... change. Having seen photos of ideas using patterned wallpaper and patterned adhesive film on stair risers, I looked on Houzz.
We love spanish tiles sodecided to use those on the risers and carpet fitted on the treads and around the nose of the stairs. Whenever I set my heart on something specific its usually out of stock, out of fashion or too expensive. So we expected a long and tedious journey to find acceptable tiles and also considered how many different patterns we might need. Imagine our surprise when in only the 2nd warehouse we visited here in Newcastle there was a floor panel of spanish tiles. Greater surprise followed however when I learned that there were not only more than 75 different patterns but that the contents of each box would be random!! Deep intake of breath......
However, there was clearly coordination in the colours; soooo... instead of calculating by pattern we bought by number of tiles required with extra allowance for flexibility of design arrangement. In two staircases we have scope for rearrangement depending upon what the boxes contained. I spread the contents of 7 boxes across the lounge floor, sorted them to some extent into piles and colour groups then set about arranging them into groups of 5 for each riser. The tiles were then trimmed, fixed on backing boards and are now in place.