Badger's arts and crafts interior, complete with English oak settles and plain brick floor, shows a more cultivated taste.
"And that would be considerably more expensive than a plain oak floor because you have to find specialized craftsmen who do that kind of thing".
Designer Jeremy Herbert created a setting that was as stark as the text, a single large mirror suspended at a 45-degree angle over a plain white floor – visually elegant, but also a metaphor for the script's prism of multiplying personalities.
My favorite technique to dress up a plain concrete floor is to paint on a faux area rug.
Noted for its plain, utilitarian floor plan consisting of two rooms off a central hall and stairway, the inside has seen some renovations throughout its history.
S1 is a part-time carpenter and lives with his wife and their youngest son (17 years old) in an old wooden house with metal zinc roof and plain cement floor.
The restaurant is small, with whitewashed walls, fake-marble tables, child-sized wooden chairs, plain wood floors and an industrial-chic ceiling.
Although the Shoreline is the more casual of the Weiss-Weinberger restaurants, with plain wood floors, comfortable oak armchairs and enormous Mexican candelabra, the nightly specials are complicated enough to tax the declamatory skills of Demosthenes.
With all those plain concrete floors, all those rough and ready timber partitions, plus the exposed ductwork, the sewing machines, lathes and looms, it feels a bit like a 19th-century Manchester mill brought up to date.
Then there's the plain wooden floors, the pub tables and village-hall chairs, the long bar where you can have a sherry and some dark and fatty jamón while waiting hopefully for a table.
