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Finding the carpet you’ll love
In addition to the amazing softness and unbelievable benefits, different carpet styles have different characteristics. Odds are, one will probably be best for your own needs and preferences, while a couple of others might serve as acceptable alternates. It’s important to know the difference between your available choices so that you can be better prepared when you visit our showroom.
Reliable Floor Coverings has built a reputation for providing excellent products and services. Our plan is to create a flooring experience that’s everything you dreamed it would be and more. From a gorgeous showroom stocked with plenty of affordable floor coverings to professional consultations and installations, you’ll find everything you need in our Edmonds, WA showroom. From there we service the communities of Edmonds, Everett, Shoreline, Lynnwood, and Bothell, and we look very forward to an opportunity to serve you when you visit us.
Reliable Floor Coverings has built a reputation for providing excellent products and services. Our plan is to create a flooring experience that’s everything you dreamed it would be and more. From a gorgeous showroom stocked with plenty of affordable floor coverings to professional consultations and installations, you’ll find everything you need in our Edmonds, WA showroom. From there we service the communities of Edmonds, Everett, Shoreline, Lynnwood, and Bothell, and we look very forward to an opportunity to serve you when you visit us.
The perfect carpet type
Shag carpet is a popular type of flooring featuring a pile that is extra deep, giving it a shaggy look. It rose to great popularity in the 70s but came back on the scene in the early 2000s featuring a larger array of colors. It’s plush, soft, and makes a comfortable flooring for more private areas such as bedrooms. Be sure you have a heavy-duty machine for vacuuming, as the fibers shed heavily during the first few weeks after installation.
Solid Cut Pile is a very popular choice and refers to the flat look created when looped fibers are cut so they are all the same height. It’s very dense and offers a great cushion feel while the lack of loops means nothing gets snagged on it.
Cut and Loop carpet is another popular type in which loops are sheared off high and loops remain low. This affords an appearance that looks to actually be cut into the carpet, and often, colors are made to contrast one another for an even more enhanced look. The variations help hide many of the sides of everyday wear, but it’s probably not the best fit for pet owners, as nails tend to get caught in the loops.
Large-Scale Geometric is a floor covering better reserved for homeowners with bold decor. It’s often used to create a nice focal point and be played both up and down with contrast. Best placed in oversized rooms, the pattern can often be cut off when trying to install it in a room that’s too small for the oversized patterns.
Solid Cut Pile is a very popular choice and refers to the flat look created when looped fibers are cut so they are all the same height. It’s very dense and offers a great cushion feel while the lack of loops means nothing gets snagged on it.
Cut and Loop carpet is another popular type in which loops are sheared off high and loops remain low. This affords an appearance that looks to actually be cut into the carpet, and often, colors are made to contrast one another for an even more enhanced look. The variations help hide many of the sides of everyday wear, but it’s probably not the best fit for pet owners, as nails tend to get caught in the loops.
Large-Scale Geometric is a floor covering better reserved for homeowners with bold decor. It’s often used to create a nice focal point and be played both up and down with contrast. Best placed in oversized rooms, the pattern can often be cut off when trying to install it in a room that’s too small for the oversized patterns.
Warmth and comfort under foot
There is no doubt that carpet floors offer homeowners more warmth, softness and are much quieter than any other floor covering. Today’s carpet styles, carpet colors and textures blend well with any room decor as well with a variety of other flooring products. From casual carpets to formal carpets you can always find a carpet style that will enrich any interior setting and your lifestyle. There is the right type of carpet for all areas of the home including active areas where fashion and function are both important in your selections. Not only are carpets pleasing to look at and touch, there are durable carpets that can be right for any room or area.
Carpet manufacturers today offer consumers a wider selection of carpet patterns, textures and colors to cover your floors than ever before. Advancements in carpet fiber technology and carpet construction are making floor carpets softer, more stain-resistant and helping carpets retain their like-new appearance far better than ever before. Berber carpets, patterned carpets and textured cut pile saxonies are among the most popular floor covering choices with homeowners today.
Even carpet cushions have dramatically been improved. Carpet cushions are now available that will block spills from penetrating the cushion and soaking into the sub-floor as well as eliminating odors in your carpet.
Carpet manufacturers today offer consumers a wider selection of carpet patterns, textures and colors to cover your floors than ever before. Advancements in carpet fiber technology and carpet construction are making floor carpets softer, more stain-resistant and helping carpets retain their like-new appearance far better than ever before. Berber carpets, patterned carpets and textured cut pile saxonies are among the most popular floor covering choices with homeowners today.
Even carpet cushions have dramatically been improved. Carpet cushions are now available that will block spills from penetrating the cushion and soaking into the sub-floor as well as eliminating odors in your carpet.
Listed below are some of the advantages to using carpet in your home:
- Carpet adds flooring warmth and is soft under feet and easier on children’s knees.
- Carpet is much quieter than hard surfaces floors.
- Carpet comes in a wide variety of color tones and hues.
- Carpet is easy to decorate with and offers many solid color tones for rooms with patterned wall coverings.
- Carpet can hide many subfloor irregularities that would not be permitted with hard surfaces floors.
- Carpet can go over a variety of substrates and on all grade levels, even concrete slabs in basements.
- Carpet is economical and the installation costs are much less than some of the hard surface products.
Great carpet can change the look and feel of a room. Installing carpet can be difficult if you are planning on doing it yourself. If carpets are not installed correctly, they will not last as long as they would if a professional did the job correctly. Using experienced carpet flooring professionals in Seattle can make the project faster, easier and many times less expensive.
