You bought the new sofa, hung the art and swapped the lamps, and the room still looks like a showroom waiting for someone to move in. Every dollar went to eye level, while the biggest surface in the room stayed the same safe beige it has always been.
This is not your fault. The floor is the one surface most of us treat as background, chosen to blend in rather than to say anything. Kendall Jenner’s art studio makes the opposite case. In a video shared on Instagram by Amy Chin and picked up by design media in late October, the studio in her Beverly Hills home shows a floor of matte tiles in cream, black and red, set with hexagonal grout lines. The space was designed by Clements Design, the firm of Kathleen Clements and her son, Tommy Clements, who also worked with Jenner on the rest of her home.
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What the floor does, and what the room doesn’t
The trick is restraint everywhere else. Around that floor, the studio is deliberately pared back: a white chaise lounge, tan curtains and very little competing for attention. The floor carries the color and the pattern, so the furniture doesn’t have to.
It also fits the way Jenner’s home has always been described. When her house was first shown in 2020, it leaned on warm, earthy neutrals with bright accents, and Tommy Clements described her taste as more bohemian and funky than the rest of her family. A three-color floor under a quiet room is that same idea, moved to the ground.
Trend watchers have a name for it. After years of calling the ceiling the “fifth wall,” some now call the floor the “sixth wall,” Grazia reports, and they expect bolder, more textured floors in 2027.
How to borrow the look at home
- Pick three colors and stop there. The studio works with a light base, a dark and one accent. Cream, black and red is one version; cream, navy and rust or white, charcoal and green follow the same logic.
- Choose a matte finish. Matte tiles, set here with hexagonal grout lines, give the studio floor a graphic, almost handmade look that a glossy finish wouldn’t.
- Start small. An entryway, a powder room or a home office is an easier first try than an open living area, and costs less to redo if you change your mind.
- Let the floor be the loudest thing in the room. Keep the walls, curtains and upholstery quiet, the way the studio does with a white chaise and tan curtains. If you’d rather start vertically, the same thinking works on a wall, as these fireplace tile ideas show.
- Renting? Use a rug. A graphic rug in the same three colors gives a similar effect without touching the floor. Peel-and-stick tiles are another route, but read the fine print: FloorPops, one peel-and-stick brand, says its tiles aren’t temporary the way peel-and-stick wall decals are, even though they can be pried up with a scraper, and it doesn’t recommend them over grouted tile or floating laminate. Ask your landlord before you stick anything down.
Before you retile
Don’t go looking for the exact tile. Neither Jenner nor Clements Design has publicly said what material or brand was used, so any “get the look” product is a guess, not the real thing.
Tile is also one of the more permanent choices in a house. Order samples, set them on the floor and look at them morning and evening, because red and cream can look different in warm lamplight. For a full room, a professional tile setter will handle the layout and keep the grout lines even.
And keep the rest of the room honest. A bold floor next to a patterned sofa and a gallery wall stops being a statement and starts being noise. Three colors, a matte finish and a quiet room on top. That’s the trick.
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