Hardwood Floor Borders
When tiling a floor in one room, you should also consider what the flooring is either already, or going to be, in any other adjacent rooms. You should try and make a smooth transition from one room to another which is normally found at the point of the doorway at accent the changes in flooring or floor design. These are filled in with either a "threshold" or a "transition".
When we speak of thresholds, this is the point where perhaps two completely different tiled floors usually meet at a doorway. Depending on the dimensions of each room, you will possibly find that the line of sight when you enter each room has a completely different aspect; therefore the grout lines may not match each other exactly at the point of transition.
To compensate for this staggered and irregular pattern in grout lines between two opposing tiled floors, we would normally think of applying a threshold. This is basically a strip of completely different floor tiles in contrast to the two rooms, that are most likely as wide as the door itself. If the door were closed, then the threshold could not be seen from either side and would not interfere with the tile pattern of each room. However, when the door is open, the contrasting threshold can be seen, but it is done in such a way that it accents and compliments both tiled floors without looking too weird a transition.
To compensate for this staggered and irregular pattern in grout lines between two opposing tiled floors, we would normally think of applying a threshold. This is basically a strip of completely different floor tiles in contrast to the two rooms, that are most likely as wide as the door itself. If the door were closed, then the threshold could not be seen from either side and would not interfere with the tile pattern of each room. However, when the door is open, the contrasting threshold can be seen, but it is done in such a way that it accents and compliments both tiled floors without looking too weird a transition.
Hardwood Floor Borders
