How to Choose the Best Carpet for Living Rooms

Carpet looks great from wall-to-wall in living rooms. You feel its softness underfoot and its warmth. It makes every room more comfortable with cushioning under your feet.

For a living room, a good carpet will need to last over years of family life and social visits, including children and pets, while also providing underfoot comfort and fashionable appeal.

Aesthetics

It’s no surprise that choosing carpet can feel like an overwhelming decision, as much of its beauty and functionality depends on the type of fibre and how that fibre shade will come together to bring your room to life.

The nylon is important for wearability, but adding a touch of wool will amp up the luxury feeling. Textures can be a berber pile or a cut-and-looped style, or just stripes to add individuality.

Carpet colour should be one of the primary elements in creating a mood and space – beiges are a great tone for an airy feel, while deep, rich, browns will create a warm space. A red or blue carpet will decorate any room in style, and modern rugs featuring graphic or mottled designs create a powerful statement while still remaining stain-resistant. Water-based or solvent-based solutions can be used to remove adult urine if the odour is not something you can live with.

Durability

Living rooms now become much pleasant places with the added comfort and warmth provided by carpets. They not only add style and interest to interior decoration but also enhance floor surfaces with their addition of colour and textural variety. Of course, there is a wide variety of designs and styles on offer and this makes it possible to install products suitable to meet every style and requirement. From high performance nylon carpets suitable for industrial use to natural-fibre styles for luxury underfoot comfort, all this and more can be used to build stunning rug flooring systems.

Whether you go for a monochrome palate or loud motifs, your living room rug should be able to withstand extensive wear and be easy to clean. You can help to ensure your rug is durable and easy to take care of by selecting a low-pile carpet. Lower pile means that dirt and debris are less likely to get trapped within the strands. For an easy-to-maintain living room carpet, consider vinyl carpets such as nylon, polyester or olefin.

Either way, the ‘tufted carpet’, both flat and terry loop pile with variable loop heights and/or cut pile, well suited to defined areas of use, or wool carpet for the more plush and springy feel characterises other excellent options.

Comfort

It also helps to keep the powerful chill out most of the year, as is the case with our living room carpet flooring that runs through the sitting area, bedroom and kitchen – the base on which most of our daily living happens. And now that we are working from home most days, we look forward to the feeling of cocooned comfort that only soft flooring underfoot can provide, after a long day’s work. And the ambient soft textures are highly seductive. Add a little lubricant and this could be really fun! Aside from a lingering sense of sensuality, carpet enhances living spaces in many practical ways. There is so much more choice than just carpet tiles. You can have luxurious Sherpa accents, shaggy piles, sumptuous Minimalist textures – or any number of natural wool carpet options that would improve both the aesthetic and functional dimensions of your home while perfectly addressing the particular lifestyle needs of your household.

Nylon is one of the best choices for the busiest areas of your home, as it’s more durable than wool carpets, they are generally easy to clean and maintain, and are offered in an abundance of styles to accommodate virtually any decorating theme. And to lend your room a special touch, consider a nylon carpet featuring a large scale or bright colour.

Saxony carpets are sumptuous, soft-pile carpets that are luxurious on the feet, while shag carpets are soft by virtue of their longer fibres. Polyester or triexta carpets are excellent when low-pile is required since they are very resistant to stains, so less vacuum cleaning is necessary to keep the surface clean; they are also maintenance-free options that can withstand high volume traffic!

Maintenance

Your carpet should withstand everyday use, especially if it goes in high-traffic zones. In such cases, opt for a low-pile carpet made of nylon, polyester or olefin for amazing resiliency (you can also get these kinds of product in a range of colours that hold their texture well) – and with resilience to furniture compression, they’re ideal for living rooms with busy feet.

Resembling finely woven tapestries, wool carpets offer a sophisticated look and feel to your living space. On the floor, they are soft and durable underfoot, while up close, they provide a swirl of colour and texture in the room’s cornerstones of the decoration. On top of that, they make a strong statement about the type of person

Neutral colours can help to create a welcoming space and are easy to complement with furniture and ornaments that you already have, whereas bolder patterned options can help to add some drama or pattern to a living room. Floral designs, or geometric shapes such as stripes or diamonds – take your pick from a wide range of designs.