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In this month's blog, we step out of the kid's bedroom into something much more adult: Sensual Carpets. The former relies on bright colour palettes inspired by Justin’s House and rugs made to look like a road system around a small hamlet. Adult spaces, however, are environments for us to retreat to, alone or with another, and close the door on the world.
Back in July, in our blog, Kids and carpets: what to buy and what not, we focused on the best carpets when you have kids. In a nutshell, anything synthetic works best as it can handle any spills and bodily fluids that happen to come into contact with your new carpet. All the carpets below are synthetic. Wool is good and can probably handle more than you think, but put in a ring with multiple kids and the former will lose out after a few rounds.
In last month's blog, we considered bold carpets for the home. This month we look at the opposite: plain carpets in natural soft tones. Although bold carpets are fun and striking, they don't work in every home. Natural coloured carpets are much easier to work with. They settle into the background to let furniture, ornaments and art come through. However, with subtle changes in colour and texture, you can change the room's character with this kind of flooring.
One of the current trends for carpets, particularly on colours are for grey carpets or lighter natural shades like beige. They allow the furniture and ornaments to come through with your carpet, as it were, providing a subtle backdrop. For those however, who favour a bold carpet either in colour or design there are still a lot of exciting and stylish examples out there. In this month’s blog we look at a few of them. Grab your sunglasses, hold on to your chair and get ready for Bold is Beautiful: Carpets that make a big impression!
There is the old saying that in life nothing is certain except for death and taxes. However, if you have children, you could also add they will make a mess on your carpet. In last month’s blog, we considered which carpet to get when you have pets. This month, it’s about the kids and what flooring to get when you have young ones toddling in, out and about at home.
In the UK, 59% of the population have a pet of some kind, with dogs being the most popular at 33%, followed by felines at 27%. It means there is the potential for an awful lot of paws and claws walking across your new carpet. So what do you then when you have a pet, and you need a new carpet? We find out here in our short guide to buying a new carpet when you have a pet.
At Archway Carpets, Darrell Smith, along with his father, Graham Smith, has been helping people find their very own flooring luxury for over 35 years. You can imagine their knowledge is considerable given the many years spent working with the many options available. It begs the question then, given their expertise on the subject, what carpets and flooring did they choose for their own homes?
Compared to wool carpets, polypropylene carpets (or manmade in old money) can appear to be the poorer relation to its naturally rich cousin. Wool carpets are made from sheep coats, while the other is a synthetic fibre produced in a factory. Although this is true, but it would be a disservice to leave the distinction there.
