Description
Orange 0917: The Floor That Refuses to Blend In
Most commercial floors are designed to disappear; Orange 0917 was designed to be remembered. Choosing an accent floor colour this confident is a statement about a building’s energy, and Tarkett backs the statement with the full technical depth of the Standard Plus range, so the boldness never comes at the cost of durability.
Energy You Can Walk On
Orange is the extrovert of the colour wheel: warm like red but friendlier, bright like yellow but stronger. In practice it energizes cafeterias, activates collaboration zones and gives reception areas a pulse. Youth centres, gyms, creative offices and campus buildings use orange precisely because it photographs well and lifts moods on dark winter afternoons.
Colour research links orange with appetite, sociability and momentum, which helps explain why food service areas and fitness spaces reach for it so often. As an accent floor colour it also does functional work, marking activity zones and guiding movement through large floor plans without a single sign being hung.
Why Accents Fail on Flimsy Floors
Here is the catch with bold colour: wear shows on a vivid floor faster than on any beige, and a printed orange surface that scuffs through to a grey core is an expensive embarrassment. That is why construction matters so much here. Standard Plus is a vinyl floor covering of homogeneous construction, made as a single layer, 2.0 mm thick, with the orange pigment running through the full thickness of the sheet. Scratches reveal more orange. Years of traffic reveal more orange. With Binder content Type II, a 34 Very Heavy commercial classification and a 43 Heavy industrial classification, this is heavy traffic flooring first and a design flourish second.
Design Recipes for an Orange Floor
A little orange goes a long way, and the 30 colour collection makes measured use easy. Run 0917 as a ribbon through a field of medium grey for wayfinding. Floor an entire breakout room in it and keep the walls white. Pair it with pale green for a fresh, optimistic scheme in a children’s clinic.
Because every shade in the collection shares the same soft classic pattern and identical construction, mixed colour layouts install cleanly and perform uniformly, seam to seam. For a subtler approach, use it in a single stairwell or lift lobby, where a burst of colour orients visitors instantly on every level of the building.
Upkeep for a Floor That Gets Noticed
A statement floor must stay presentable, and this one makes that easy. The PUR surface treatment seals the vinyl floor covering so regular care amounts to dry mopping and a damp mop with a neutral pH cleaner, with far less waxing and stripping than traditional resilient floors demand. Glue down installation keeps the sheet firmly bonded under rolling loads and constant footfall, so the surface stays flat and the colour stays exactly where the designer put it.
Availability at a Glance
We stock this colour for local pick up, and as with every bold shade in the collection, inventory is limited, so reserve your material early if orange belongs in your project. An accent floor colour with heavy traffic flooring credentials is a genuinely rare combination, and 0917 delivers both without blinking.
