26-Piece Wood-Grain Foam Play Mat NATURAL

by One Step Ahead

Product Description

If you love your hardwood floors, you'll love our wood-grain foam puzzle mat, because the hardwood-look pattern blends right in! Like our original play mats, it's thicker, comfier, and more durable than other interlocking foam floor mats, but you'll barely notice it's there. Makes hard floors safer, and playtime more comfortable for kids of all ages (grownups, too!). Foam mat pieces are 5/8" thick like others, for greater protection and longevity. Create a soft play area with this 26-piece set, or combine several sets and cover the playroom. Each interlocking tile measures 12"H x 12"W x 5/8" thick. For all ages. Choose Espresso for dark wood floors and Natural for light and medium wood floors. Designed by OneStepAhead! This is part of OneStepAhead's exclusive foam puzzle mat collection. Additional pieces and sets sold separately, so you can mix and match to create your perfect play mat. All OneStepAhead puzzle mat sets are compatible.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

62 of 63 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Looks good, feels good January 28, 2010

By Doire

Color Name:Natural|Amazon Verified Purchase

These are soft enough to cushion an impact to a falling child's head, but firm enough to crawl/walk on without deforming completely. They are light, the finish is easy to wipe clean, and they look good. We have a hardware floor and got these in preference to anything primary colored. While these are noticeably different to the hardwood floor, when you walk into the room they don't jump out as gaudy. I'm very happy with the look, feel and finish of them. They fit together well, but not seamlessly.

We got 26 tiles for $40, which I feel is a good deal. I'm only giving this 4 stars rather than 5 because they don't include the edging pieces, and charge an additional fee for the edge and corner pieces of almost $5 each, which makes the edges three times more expensive to buy than the other pieces that are much larger. Edging the 6x4 piece mat we made would cost more than 3 times the mat price, which is just silly. (It's a question for their marketing folks, but I doubt it relates to manufacturing cost.) I'd also like to be able to buy an extension pack of, say, 10 more tiles to make it a 6x6 piece mat, but alas, no such option seems to be available.

All in all it's a good buy, and I'd recommend them. I might even buy another complete set of 26 just to be able to extend it. I won't be buying the exorbitantly priced edges and corners though. I'd take a Stanley knife to the ones I have first and make a linear edge myself.

NOTE: These tiles smelled very strongly of VOCs when we received them, and we had to let them gas out for a few days to let the smell dissipate enough for us to use them anywhere near our child. 3 days was enough. Don't expect to use these immediately upon receipt.

25 of 27 people found the following review helpful

3.0 out of 5 stars Natural foam Mat June 4, 2010

By Wisconsin

Color Name:Natural|Amazon Verified Purchase

Looks nice. Too expensive if you buy the edging pieces. You will need an edge piece for each outer square of the mat --- this adds up. Also, the edge pieces vary in fit and finish. The mat has a chemical smell that does not dissipate for a couple of months, even if you air it out outside. My child's hair and clothes would smell like the mat after she'd played on it for awhile. The smell is suppose to be nontoxic, but it's also suppose to dissipate in several days. This product is made in China. This mat is thicker than any others I found in the stores.

12 of 13 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Wash the Wood Off May 21, 2011

By Carey D. Rasmus

Color Name:Natural

Nice and soft and fit together. They even look pretty realistically like hardwood. We called ours "the dance floor" in the baby's room.

However, that pretty wood look washed right off of several of the squares when we wiped spit-up off them a few times which makes them ugly and not worth the money.