We designers are used to piecing together cool spaces but the new puzzle options make it more of a pastime than a vocation.

I guess rugs and floors that arrive in pieces appeal to the kid in all of us. We never tire of connecting the grooves to create the picture on the front of the puzzle box. In terms of rugs, you can titillate your brain with the Puzzleperser by German designer Katrin Sonnleitner, who offers nine Persian rug colors (which emerge as eye candy) for puzzle people to assemble to create their own recycled rubber floor art.

Meanwhile, Puzzle Floor™ of Canada gives us hardwood puzzles (from certified managed forests) in a range of wood varieties that we can play with in the main surfaces of our house (about $8 per square foot). Children, especially, seem thrilled with the floors. And the assembly assures the pieces cannot be pulled apart even by the most determined puzzle lovers. (Shown top and here.)