Net Gamblings

Increasingly carpet retailers have embarked on a mission to further increase awareness among people at how effective home ideas with carpet can be in transforming your home. The majority of this season’s carpet designs have an extravagant handmade feel, which leads on from the trend for individuality as being the new luxury. Using carpet for ’spotlight areas’ in your home, such as bedrooms and snugs is a very effective way to add texture, a feeling of cosiness and comfort that makes the distinction between a house and a home evident.

For a long while carpet has been a material that interior designers have enjoyed incorporating within their designs, as it adds an element of style and warmth that goes beyond purely the aesthetics. It’s one thing people always mention after experiencing carpet used this way even if they have a preference for other types of flooring.

In many of the industry magazines it has been noted that sales of stripey carpets have gone up by 200% this year as things making an impact in the fashion world continue to infiltrate interior design, providing exciting, hip flooring options for living spaces.

Some of the top fashion gurus like Paul Smith have played a pivotal role in promoting the bold colour palettes now available in striped carpet collections. These new styles are grabbing headlines in the interior design industry and cladding the coolest floors across the UK. Bright coloured stripes can add an extra something to neutrally decorated rooms, or make a subtle impact, complementing different scale striped soft furnishings.

Striped carpet flooring makes a very definite style statement, along with introducing a wider selection of colours into the home – without having to rely on accessories – and adds a energetic feel that neutral tones alone are unable to. Bold tangerine and pinks are key to the fresh collections being revealed this season with complimentary colours including shades of greys and taupe’s.

For a long while it has been noted that there is a relationship between interior trends and fashion; there is also an agreement amongst those that work in the interior design industry that it’s really exciting to be working with carpet again after years of having to focus on alternative flooring choices such as wood. A stripy pattern can be put to stunning use in flooring and can be used as a great design tool. They can be used to lengthen rooms, change perspective, and bring together much wider colour palettes than you’d usually be able to use.