Choosing a carpet

Carpets can be found almost everywhere: in apartments and restaurants, in offices and even at the awards ceremony, which begins with the red carpet. Properly chosen coating will serve its owner for a long time and will endure many tests, as well as give a beautiful and stylish appearance, comfort and coziness to any room.

Carpets are not just a floor covering, they have many useful properties and characteristic features:

• Protect the floor in the room from abrasion.
• They create a pleasant atmosphere and complement the interior.
• Carpets are good for the feet, as they massage the feet;
• Any floor coverings absorb noise and insulate the room.

Carpets on the floor for the hallway are usually produced not unmarked flowers and with an ornament to mask all pollution. They are perfectly combined with the interior styling. If you want to buy a stylish walkway to the room, then it is best to opt for lint-free products that do not collect dust and are convenient in regular cleaning.

There are many varieties of carpet paths that can be used in residential premises, in the halls of restaurants, in offices, and in institutions. Today, there is no single classification of carpet products, as there are an excessively large number of features that unite them.

By type of production they are:

• Machine made;
• Self made. Homespun rugs, if they are really created at home, always look very nice in the rustic interior styles - country and Provence,however, if you want your woven carpet to look original and luxurious, it is better to purchase expensive luxury handmade carpets.

By production methods:

• Woven. Usually, these are flat, lint-free textile fabrics, which are produced by the method of specific interlacing of threads. Hand-woven carpets or on a special machine carpets have a solid price. Their clear advantage is that they can be produced with any drawings and different colors.
• Needle punched.
• Needle-piercing (tufted).

By pile height:

• With a short nap. Its length is up to 5 mm. This is most often the popular carpet rugs in the form of tracks.
• With average pile. Length - from 6 to 13-15 mm. Suitable for nursery or living room.
• With a long nap. The length of the pile is more than 16 mm, so the products are very soft and warm. They are usually put in the bedroom, but there are also long pile carpets for living rooms.

Since the rugs with elongated nap tend to collect dust, they will not work for the hallway. Sometimes, because of the high permeability of the room, a “trampled” path may appear on this rug, due to which the coating will look untidy.Therefore, the best solution is to choose a lint-free mat that is easy to clean. If you still want a soft coating, it is better to choose a carpet with a different pile or woven product.

In many stores today you can also find baby massage mats with colored stones that help to properly form the arch of the child’s feet, strengthen the immune system and tone up the skin of the feet.

When choosing tracks it is important to consider the quality and composition of the material from which they are made.

Artificial products are most often produced from polypropylene and polyamide, so they are more resistant to various influences, are not afraid of dirt and moisture, various fungi, and withstand significant loads. These carpets serve for a long time, have a good choice of colors, but if the rays of light fall into the room where they are placed, the paths can burn out very quickly.

Wool has many significant advantages, because it is completely safe, retains heat longer, from its fibers you can weave a woolen rug with your own hands, and with proper care it will last longer than ordinary synthetics.

Selecting tracks in the hallway, it will be better to opt for a synthetic or mixed version than natural. This rubberized carpet, PVC, polyamide, polypropylene. Synthetic fibers, the height of the villi of which is not very large, are not afraid of mechanical damage and are not deformed under the weight of the furniture. Double-sided wicker plastic mats are commonly used in areas such as the kitchen, corridor, bath and in open spaces - on the terrace and balcony.

It is also very important what the basis of the tracks. Usually called 3 of their main types:

• Felt. The basis of the felt has excellent heat and sound insulation, dust-repellent properties. This carpet is very easy to clean; it does not fear cleaning with water;
• Jute Jute also has good performance in operation, but at the same time it is capricious during care - wet cleaning does not apply here at all, so that the base does not peel off and does not moldy. This is a very hard material, floor coverings based on jute can damage both laminate and parquet;
• Rubber. This option is well suited for a corridor or hallway, the tracks on this basis are not afraid of water, this is the best noise, sound and heat insulation.The surface of this coating is soft, elastic, pleasant tactile sensations, and its cleaning will not be difficult. Only one minus - rubber-based carpets do not have a large range.

Also very often vinyl is used as a base. Such tracks serve for a long time and are characterized by a high degree of wear. Another advantage - they do not slip.

Today, mats made of natural materials have become very popular: sisal and coconut, rice paper, cotton. High-quality lint-free carpets and walkways are also often made from such a grass as nettle, and the highly sought-after viscose carpets are practical and durable.

Very popular today are woven carpets, which are made on special machines woven method. These are very expensive products that will last for decades. Most often they can be seen in luxury hotels. But no one can prevent you from purchasing a stylish crocheted half-woolen rug for your home. Hand-knotted carpets and rugs will be the most original accent in your home.You can also find products in the form of coarse, lint-free rice mats, which are produced by the weaving method and which can have a bright printed pattern on their surface.

Choosing the most appropriate color for the carpet you need to think about what role it will play in the room. If this is a key element, then with ordinary hallway colors it is better to give preference to saturated colors, if the room itself is filled with bright colors, then you need to make sure that they are properly combined with each other. You can also dilute the existing design, picking up a carpet product in soothing colors that will help tame the "flashy" elements.

As for the colors and parameters of the pattern, then you should know that dark and solid features will make the modern space visually smaller, and light and small it will increase. You can give preference to products with ornaments or prints, because with the help of a picture, even bright spots will not be evident so clearly as on single-color coatings.

Fashion designers advise to choose the colors of the tracks:

• It is best for the bedroom to choose bluish or blue tones, it will be easier to fall asleep with them, since these colors relax well.
• For the living room you need to choose bright colors so that any visitors feel a surge of energy in your house, and not a desire to fall asleep. These can be red, purple or burgundy colors and other contrasting colors that help create a festive mood.

• In small rooms, it is better not to be too catchy for tracks, because excessively bright or dark colors can distort the size of the rooms.
• When finding windows from the north, one can give preference to warm tones, and in the case of the south side - cold colors.
• If a lot of light enters the windows of a room, then it is best to choose tracks of strict colors: gray, blue, turquoise, blue. They will help create the effect of coolness and comfort.

• For rooms with windows overlooking the dark part of the street, it is better to use more juicy colors: yellow and orange. They will visually make the room warmer and add coziness to it.
• If you have pets and children in your house, then you simply cannot avoid stains on carpets.Even the most dirt-resistant carpet will sooner or later look in such conditions not the best way, which is why you should immediately choose a dark carpet, you can even have a rich black color.
• If you want to create a natural, refreshing atmosphere in the room, then it is best to use light green shades of tracks for these purposes.
• Very stylish will be in any room to look original tracks with floral patterns - lilies or orchids intertwined with each other.

The shape of the rug will directly depend on the parameters of the room where it will be placed. If your hallway has the shape of a square or it is round, then the shape of the walkway can be different: different shapes and clearly square, circle shapes or oval shapes. If you have a narrow corridor, then the best way out will be a path that, with its width, will fit perfectly into the dimensions of this corridor. It is best to pick up the product no wider than 70 cm - the best option for the design of the dwelling.

For an oversized room, it is better to pick up a small-sized product, even a hand-made one. If the parameters of the room allow, you can choose more coverage. Narrow paths can be used to highlight areas in the room, for example, two narrow paths lying on the floor on both sides of the bed will make the interior of the room more harmonious and complete.

Today in the world there are a large number of different styles, but most often a certain decoration of the decor refers either to modern or to classical ones.

In the classical style, you can imagine the tracks with traditional patterns of pleasant shades that fill the space with solidity. It can be handmade products with a high level of craftsmanship. The fashion for synthetic carpets in the classic version today at the peak of its popularity.

Modern carpets in modern style often have catchy patterns, stylish prints, or they can be completely plain. There may be colored stripes, a nautical theme, a zebra, a rubber mat with a funny cartoon pattern, or a real reproduction on a carpet surface.

In the living room with a mixed style, where one of the solutions has the eastern direction, you can enter a floor with a pronounced Oriental, Arabic, Greek or even floral ornament.

Carpets can transform the space, become the main focus, but first you need to learn how to choose them correctly.

A number of uncomplicated rules will help determine the choice of the most appropriate option much faster:

• First you need to clarify information about the strength and durability of the rug. And then it can be exploited for quite a long time, while maintaining comfort in the home;
• tactile contact is important, because taking off shoes is much more pleasant to feel the soft and warm surface under your feet;
• The design of the walkway (connected with one's own hands, among other things) must be chosen on the basis of the characteristic features of the interior. Colors and parameters should match with other items that emphasize the taste of the owner of the dwelling;
• tracks should just be cleaned and washed;
• choosing a mat for your hallway, you need to take into account its properties of protection from dirty spots and the ability to quickly absorb moisture.

On the balcony and for the hallway, it is preferable to select tracks that have protection from external influence. Rugs with an elongated or medium pile perfectly fit in the bedroom for adults and in the playroom for children.

For the kitchen, it is best to buy bright and beautiful rugs made of synthetic materials that have durability, diversity in terms of the choice of colors and resistance to wear in rooms with high traffic.

The path to the living room should create comfort, so here it is best to choose products from natural materials with rich and rich colors and an original pattern.

It is no secret to anyone that the carpets can slide under your feet when walking, which can be extremely dangerous, especially when they are located on the stairs.

On the stairs, as well as for the corridor, it is better to choose practical tracks. You can pay attention to the cover, which is excellent bend and because they can be easily mounted on the stairs, repeating the shape of the steps. Very often in large buildings on wide steps for such cases a special fixture is used, with the help of which the path will not be crushed under the feet of people walking down or up the stairs. This is usually a metal fastener that has a support at both ends of the ladder.

The tracks for the nursery should also be practical, securely fixed on the floor and not crawl along it. It is better to use tracks for children on a rubber base or use a special anti-slip substrate under the floor.

If a laminate or tile is laid in your kitchen, then the tracks on them can also often shift, so here you need to use a special backing, properly securing it on the laminate. Suitable for these purposes and special Velcro, which will help you firmly connect the floor with the floor.

Quite a few countries today produce high-quality and stylish floor coverings, among which the carpet paths occupy a special place.

• Russian company "Lyubertsy carpets" creates original and individual designs of carpets for the order in any possible colors and in the most popular forms and materials.
• Carpet Company Osta (Belgium) offers a variety of noble colors and patterns based on traditional Damascus ornament.
• Many prefer carpets Belarusian manufacturers from Vitebsk and Brest - their carpets are of high quality, modern design, good quality and beauty.

• Moldova has long been famous for its quality carpet products. Company Moldabela is a leader in the production of carpet products from natural wool and synthetics in Moldova and nearby countries. Moldovan companies traditionally put a lot of love into their products, so their carpets are so harmonious in colors and patterns and are perfectly combined with furniture sets and interior decoration in any style.
• Turkish company Greencarpet Offers an enviable assortment of fashionable carpet tracks for every taste with any ornament or color. Carpets originally from Turkey are considered one of the best carpets in the world.
• Indian firm Jaipur rugs engaged in the production and export of elegant handmade carpets woven from wool and silk.

• So that on the floor of the hallway there is no noticeable large amount of sand and debris that are brought from the street on the sole of a shoe, here it is best to lay a bright carpet with a colorful ornament.
• The carpeting on the flight of stairs will look just fine, it will fill the atmosphere with luxury and grandeur. You can choose to decorate the design of the red carpet, which will add solemnity to the room and give a rich look.

Review the various carpet tracks in the following video.