What Are The Benefits of Carpet Flooring?

What Are The Benefits of Carpet Flooring?

There are many benefits of using carpet flooring instead of other types of floor coverings available on the market today. The main benefit is comfort, a carpet or a rug adds an area where you can walk in light shoes or even bare foot with ease. The softness of carpets compared with other forms of floor coverings is obviously their main unique selling point.  However there are other benefits of using carpets when decorating a room such as the ability to add light and mood by choosing colours and patterns to compliment furniture, wallpaper and lighting.

Other Floor Coverings Available

There are many other options to consider when considering whether or not to use carpet flooring in your home such:

Wooden Parquet Flooring Laminate Flooring Rugs & Carpet Runner Flooring Ceramic Tile Flooring Vanished or Sanded Floorboards Vinyl Flooring

All of these floor surface options have their own benefits in terms of their environmental impact, ease of installation and of course cost. Some people prefer to have natural floors in their homes such as varnished floorboards. Though this option is attractive to look at, it suffers in terms of being cold to walk on and does not retain heat as well as carpet flooring.

Fitted Carpets Flooring

If you choose to decorate your home with carpet flooring you have several options available to you. You can choose to have fully fitted carpets, lay a large carpet in the centre of the room with areas around the edge not covered by carpet or choose to use carpet runners in areas of the room. The flexibility of carpets as a flooring solution allows you to design your room how you want it, so if you want to make a feature such as a dining table or a fire place the main focal point, you can use carpeting to lead the eye to those areas of the room.

Staircase & Hallway Carpet Flooring

Carpets are not just constrained to covering floors in lounges, dining rooms and in bedrooms. Carpet flooring can be used effectively on staircases and in hallways. The same options are available to you in that you can fully cover your staircase or hallway or you may choose to have areas at the sides not covered to so you can see the floor surface underneath. This can be particularly affective in hallways where you have original wooden Parquet tiles or varnished floorboards which you do not want to damage in the main walking area, but you want on display at the sides. A particular style of carpet pattern works very well in hallways and that's striped carpets, by using a carpet with stripes of colour through it, you are able to create a sense of space and hallway which draws you in ward.