linoleum

So much so that covering the kitchen tile with blue and red checkerboard linoleum was one of their first dates in 2022, two years before Zaletel, 32, moved in.

A blue-hued linoleum floor made to look like an aquarium, replete with singing fish and turtles, brightens the dark-wooded downstairs space and echoes the nautical elements Kesling introduced into his Streamline Moderne homes.

The flat had no floor coverings and she took out a loan to install linoleum throughout.

The other dancers, aged 11 to 16, sit cross-legged on the linoleum floor talking about social media.

They were “dull, simple, amazing and unfathomable — deep caves paved with kitchen linoleum.”