One of the most popular choices for home flooring, carpets brings color and warmth into every room. Endless patterns, colors and textures still make carpets the number one selling floor covering today.

Indeed, carpet outsold every other type of flooring for the last 50 years and accounts for more than half the flooring purchases made each year. In addition to adding warmth and insulation, carpet is the most practical, versatile and fashionable floor covering. As a design element, carpets can quietly fade into the background or add a loud punch of color. Because carpet can be applied over almost any sub floor or existing flooring, a thick pile carpet will hide irregularities in sub flooring in a way that other flooring coverings can’t.

Flooring is the key to achieving the right look and tone to any room in the home. The serenity and calm of natural look carpet and the extravagance in the use of colour, imagination and texture has put flooring to the forefront of interior design. If you want to capture the perfect mood for your home, then look first to the flooring.

Versatile splashes of color ground a room, giving it personality and function. A cheap alternative to changing your room could be as simple as using an area rug, an alternative to investing in a new carpet. Not only will they add warm and comfort to a room, but next to carpet, rugs are definitely leading the way as the hottest decorating feature again this year.  Read more...