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Decorating Options

You've decided to buy carpet. That was the easy part. The process now becomes exciting as you begin to consider the decorating choices carpet offers.

Style Selection - Decorating tips

There are many elements to consider when making a carpet purchase. You should especially consider the primary use of the room, the lifestyle of your family, the proven selections of tradition, and most importantly, the tastes and instincts of your own judgment.

Primary Use of the Room

Your planned use of the carpeted area is certainly one of the main considerations. Selecting a carpet for heavy-traffic entrances, for example, will require more of an emphasis on durability than selecting a carpet for an infrequently used bedroom. Shaw Industries offers durability ratings, which will help you determine the carpet construction, the manufacturing specifications, and fiber content which will prove most effective in your home.

Lifestyle Considerations

Your family's lifestyle will also play a key role in determining the choice you make. Families without young children or pets, for example, will probably make different carpet choices than those who have both.

Carpeting offers more styling options than any other floor covering. Regardless of your lifestyle, whether it is considered formal or casual or anything in between, you will be able to find carpet selections that fit it perfectly.

Proven, Accepted Selections

You may also choose to select styles that have traditionally reflected certain "personalities" you may want your rooms to have. You may find that a fine-count velvet cutpile suggests the formality of your dining room. The nubby texture of a berber may capture the casual style of your family room. A soft, luxurious saxony may be perfect for your master bedroom, or a durable loop may be ideal for your children's playroom. Most retail sales people should be able to help you make such timeless selections.

A Choice Only You Can Make

The best news about selecting a carpet style that is right for you is that there are no strict rules to follow. As long as the style is not impractical for your specific application, you should trust your own taste and judgment. The style that is right for you should be determined by you.

Carpet Care & Maintenance

Advice from the experts that will keep your floor beautiful for years to come.

Preventive Maintenance

Vacuuming

Overall Cleaning Tips

Spot Removal Checklist

Benefits of Carpet

Carpet is the floor covering of choice among homeowners, representing the majority of all floor covering purchases in the United States. The reasons for its popularity are both practical and decorative.

Unlike other types of flooring, carpet is a natural insulator, providing additional warmth in cold seasons. Its use in a wall-to-wall application actually increases the R-value, or insulation level, of the carpeted area. Beyond its potential value in reducing heating costs, carpet also enhances the perception of comfort and warmth.

Carpet reduces a home's noise level, eliminating or muffling distracting clatter. Carpeted rooms absorb and contain noise, offering a greater degree of privacy from room to room. Soft underfoot, carpet also provides a comfortable, non-slip walking surface that reduces leg fatigue. Importantly, a resilient layer of carpet minimizes the danger of injury from falls and accidents.

Another, often overlooked advantage of carpet is its ability to improve indoor air quality. EPA scientists have concluded th at carpet can be beneficial in trapping and immobilizing potential allergy-causing particulates, preventing them from reentering the indoor air stream, if the carpet is properly cleaned and maintained. A 1990 study in Sweden determined that levels of particulate contaminants, bacteria, and fungi in the indoor air in carpeted areas were always far below levels in the air above hard surface floors. Similar results have been obtained in other studies in American hospitals.

Of course, as with any interior furnishing, appropriate cleaning is required. This includes regular vacuuming, removal of spots and spills, and periodic overall cleaning, preferably using the hot water extraction method. For more information, visit the Carpet Care section of this site.

Carpet is also a remarkably durable and practical floor covering. Technological advances in everything from fiber to backing enable carpet manufacturers to offer products suitable for virtually any residential or commercial setting - indoors or out! Moreover, carpet is an exceptional value and is generally significantly less expensive than other floor coverings.

Best of all, carpet is a beautiful home furnishing that can add elegance, comfort, and fashion to any setting. Extremely versatile, carpet is available in an extraordinary selection of styles, patterns, and colors. From solid, formal cut piles, or "saxonies," to natural, loop pile Berbers, carpet affords unlimited decorating flexibility.

Carpet can serve as a neutral backdrop that complements other furnishings, or it can "make a statement" as the focal point of a decor. The only truly three-dimensional floor covering, carpet offers textural possibilities that other hard surfaces lack.

Value, comfort, safety, beauty...it's little wonder that carpet has outsold every other floor covering for almost fifty years.