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An Instagram photo should leave your audience carried away by the subject of focus and craving for more of your photos. Unless you are doing flooring photos, most times a floor is a background in a photo and not the subject of focus. You can take great Instagram photos with your flooring in the backdrop using different strategies. Examples of stunning images you can take with your flooring in the background include images of feet and legs, shoes, flower pots, images of your kids and pets among others. It should be as creative as possible while at the same time being extraordinary.

Different Flooring Options for Great Photography

The main trick to an Instagram photo-friendly floor is having diverse backgrounds in your photos. It can get boring using the same flooring background in your photos. Because you need different backgrounds in your Instagram photos, you may need a flooring type that can accommodate that. Below we highlight different  flooring options that can work well to make your Instagram photos captivating to your audience. You can use these backgrounds as you alternate your photos with other scenes outside your home or office.

If you take multiple Instagram photos in a day, then you need diverse backgrounds that are just right. By incorporating some of the ideas discussed below you can turn your boring floor around by creating different photography backgrounds.

Floor Painting

Make an ordinary room to a picturesque by painting the room using the best floor paint ideas. For a maximum room transformation, use the best floor paint. Choose the paint depending on the type of floor being painted. 

You can paint hardwood floors, some types of tiles, and concrete floors. But before doing that, you should consider the purpose of the room to apply fitting floor paint colors. If you need an extreme color just for your photo, and your only option is painting the room, you can cover it up with an area rug after your photo sessions.

Carpet Tiles

Carpet tiles come in a variety of textures, designs and colors. You can use different patterns, colors and materials of carpet tiles to do wall to wall carpeting or use them as area rugs in the same room. Get as creative as possible including using varied shades of the same hue to decorate your room. To choose the right colors, use a color wheel which will help you when selecting colors and knowing how the colors contrast or blend together. You can choose bold and contrast colors or choose analogue colors that are next to each other on the color wheel. 

Tile Floors

You can use flooring tiles to create extreme designs that are picture-perfect for your Instagram photos. For example, you can decorate half the room differently from the other end of the room, using bold contrast colors or analogue colors on the color wheel. Because the floor will last for a long time, you have to know your limits of mixing different colors in the same room.

Area Rugs

You can use different types of area rugs in different rooms in your house to create a different background for Instagram photos. This depends on your personal tastes and preferences. Besides, you can use a canvas floor as an alternative to an area rug. You can turn the canvas into a creative hand-painted flooring by painting your preferred color.

Different Designs, Patterns in Each Room in Your House

Do you want your photos to have different backgrounds? Then if you are renovating or building a new house, each room in your house can have a unique flooring design. By doing so, you can have variety in your Instagram photos.

Using Floor Drops

You can learn a few tricks from the photography world. Professional photography employs the use of floor and wall drops to change the background of a room. Floor drops can give you a variety of backgrounds for your Instagram photos. You can use them alone or in combination with wall drops to achieve the desired background you.

Floating Floors

You can spruce up a room by using floating floor tiles. What is a floating floor? Floating floors are designed for piecing together like a puzzle and are not attached to a sub-floor. They are easy to install because adhesives and nails are not used to attach the floor to a sub-floor. There are different floating flooring options in the market including wood, stone, ceramic tiles and laminate floors. You can install a floating floor over tile, carpet, cement or other flooring types. And if you are watching your budget, you can go for cheap floating floors.

You can purchase different colors and patterns of the same flooring type especially if you only want the floating floor for taking photos. If you will pull down the floating floor, then you can use different colors, textures and patterns in the same room.

However, the floors are thinly constructed and will not work well in a high traffic offices or residential room. The good news is that there is a limitless number of colors, textures, and patterns to choose from.

Event Flooring Solutions

You can use event flooring that is easy to install on other flooring types. However, you should be careful with the installation to prevent it from destroying the original flooring of the room. There are different event flooring materials namely carpets, tiles, laminates, vinyls and luxury vinyl carpets.

Conclusion

For successful photography, you need the right background which contributes to the mood of the snap . Please note that when taking your Instagram photos with your floor in the background, you still need to consider the basics of taking a good photo including using natural light, and shooting from different angles in the room.