Carpet Tile Files

Designers compile stacks and stacks of samples. These include booklets of counter materials, wallpapers, scraps of metal with different finishes and carpet tiles. Storing these stretches everyone's creative genius, but even the brightest gems in a collection lose their luster eventually. What to do with the out of date, out of style samples when you're hopelessly out of space? Redesign.

Ample Sample tested the limits of designers' re-creative imaginations when they asked then to reinvigorate the stacks of old carpet samples they had lying around. Here are our favorite new ideas:

The Loop Bench, a sturdy spot with comfort built in and the Mag Daddy Caddy, a fresh way of storing your latest reads. See the rest of the finalists and download instructions to build your own at Ample Sample.