Forest of the Plains

This past weekend I learned that something that has bugged me for years is actually done intentionally by professionals.

Whenever I look at floors which have been newly covered with something that creates a pattern (like linoleum or tile) I wonder why they didn’t calculate the materials correctly. The edges of the floor covering always is cut so that it does not have a complete square at the edges. I always wonder if they just didn’t measure correctly or if they were too lazy to do it right. And then having cut squares around all sides of a room just drives me batty.

Four days ago I was informed that this phenomena occurs because having incomplete squares around the edges “makes it look better”. I have spent the past four days, armed with my new knowledge, assessing floors. I still think that having complete (as in not-cut) squares looks better!