Choosing the Right Carpet Style

Carpet is all about style and no other flooring can match it in terms of colours, textures and patterns and you are guaranteed to find something that would be the perfect addition to your home.

Plain Carpets

You are likely to find a plain carpet of some sort in every home throughout the country and you can take your choice from a whole myriad of textures in virtually any colour you could think of.

Some manufacturers have even gone as far as offering a bespoke colour service so that you can match your interior perfectly, much like you can do with paint at your local DIY store.

Patterned Carpets

Mention the term 'patterned carpets' to people and many may think of garish florals or highly detailed twists and knots. However, patterned carpet has come along way since the early days, and carpet manufacturers are now seeing a return to patterned carpets within the home, but with an altogether more subtle attitude, thanks to designers such as Laura Ashley and Cath Kidston.

Patterned carpets are split into traditional, borders, pin dots and others.

Tonal Carpets

Many tufted and woven carpets incorporate different shades of the same colour yarn to create small designs. This generates what is known as a tonal effect. Although this means that these carpets are great at covering dirt, make sure you don't use that as an excuse for avoiding the hoovering!

Berbers

Berber styles contain chunks of different shades in neutral tones for a natural, hand spun appearance. Berber is becoming an increasingly common style as it gives an ideal mix of natural tones with great dirt hiding qualities.

Heather and Tweed

There are many carpet ranges that incorporate yarns spun with different colour fibres. This results in a mottled appearance known as a 'Heather' or 'Tweed' that helps to soften the carpet's presence within the room. Heather and Tweed are available in twist pile, velour and velvet, and many loop pile styles are now also making use of this technique.