To Coordinate or Not to Coordinate...

We were very blessed during our move into our rental home. Wonderful people donated gifts of furniture, manchester (linens), plates and other sundry items that we had left behind in the U.S.A. Amazingly, many of these items coordinated with each other, and with the colour scheme of the house. I still call it a miracle.

The house has a muted tan and green colour scheme. The walls are textured, and the floors are hardwood in the lounge, tiled in the toilet and bathroom areas, carpeted in the bedrooms, and covered in linoleum in the kitchen and laundry. The linoleum is especially good at disguising dirt, owing to its pattern of cream, green-grey, and shiny gold flecks.

While that dirt-disguising linoleum is often a blessing, I am seriously considering the concept a floor that is contrasting to my dinnerware in our next house. As I was washing the dishes earlier this week, two of my lovely, coordinated Corelle plates relocated straight onto the floor. As Corelle is wont to do, the first plate bounced; the second plate exploded. This was no namby-pamby shatter either. This was a "Mythbusters" giant concrete mixer half-full-of-cement/half-full-of-enough-explosives-to-blow-up-a-mountain vaporisation style explosion. Tiny pieces of glinting tan-and-grey Corelle plate were just about everywhere they could be across the entire tan-and-grey glinting kitchen floor. I now had to find approximately 2,376 glass needles on a flat haystack.

I swept the entire surface twice just to be sure I'd gotten it all up. So, I'm thinking a nice dark grey floor next time. On the other hand, do they make rubber plates?