Why Choose Carpet?


Carpet offers much more than other flooring choices. Wood, vinyl, and tile can't touch the versatility, comfort and style that carpet delivers. It's simply a great foundation for your feet and your room decor.

BEAUTY
Carpet is the foundation of your decorating. It can enhance a room with causal simplicity, or create a showcase for formal elegance. The style and color selection is so vast, you can find carpet to complement any décor.

ATTITUDE ADJUSTMENT
With carpet you can capitalize on the psychological affects certain colors have on mood. Think about bright, cheerful colors for children; soothing tones for older members of the family. It can also help when designing home offices and family rooms.

COMFORT
Carpet makes the floor a place to sit, to play and to relax. Nothing feels nicer on bare feet than to shuffle through a lush, thick carpet.

MAINTENANCE
Regular, but simple vacuuming, quick attention to spills and professional cleaning every 12 to 18 months is all it takes to keep up appearances.

TEMPERATURE
In the cold weather, carpet retains warm air and in the heat, it stays cooler.

SAFETY
It's a great non-slick walking surface that prevents slips and falls. It ensures that seniors and toddlers find sure footing.

NOISE REDUCTION
Carpet absorbs sound within a room and acts as a sound barrier between floors.

DECORATING - TIPS AND TRENDS

If you are decorating,
it means you're probably knee-deep in fabulous fabrics, vivid colors and difficult decisions. That can overwhelm even the hardiest home designer. Here are some helpful hints to ease your decorating dilemmas.

Pick a Starting Point
Choose your favorite object in a room, whether it's an antique armoire or a bay window. Make it the centerpiece and decorate around it. Let your favorite object suggest the color palette for the entire room.

Color Flow
Create a unifying flow of colors throughout your house by using the same colors in varying roles in your rooms. If you've used lemon yellow on the wall of the kitchen, use the same lemon yellow as an accent color in the adjoining family room.

Use Varying Shades
Don't match carpet color exactly with wall paint or upholstery; the room will appear too rigid. Instead choose a darker or lighter shade to create variation and definition.

Accentuate the Positive, conceal the Negative
Highlight the items that you love in a room, whether it be a favorite mantelpiece to a beloved lamp. Hide the things you don't like but can't change. Put carpet over horrible tile or curtains over an unattractive window.

Keep a Scrapbook
Collect photos and magazine pages of room designs you like. Keep them in a file for inspiration and ideas. Click on My Portfolio to keep articles, carpet colors and styles in a file that you can save and print.

Have Samples, will travel
Keep a bag in your car with samples and swatches of carpet, paint and fabric you are already using. If you come across anything in your travels, you'll be able to determine quickly if fits into your existing décor.

STEP BY STEP
There are eight distinct components to
cosider when decorating a room, you'll
feel finished when you're addressed each
aspect.