Carpets in the interior of your home

Carpets are back in fashion! After several decades of undeserved neglect, the carpets in the interior again took their honorable central place. But now these are not only functional objects, but also decorative elements. Like any other decoration, carpets must be used with taste, choosing them in shape, texture and size to the design and style of the interior. In this article, we will talk about the intricacies of the selection of these decorative coatings so that they look harmoniously in your interior.

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Carpet quality

How well the carpet in the room will look and how long it will last depends on how well its composition is chosen. Modern carpet products are made from the following materials:

• Synthetic. They are made from various artificial fibers - polyester, polypropylene, nylon, polyacrylic, acrylic. Such products are inexpensive, as a rule, they are painted in bright colors, however, they are not very healthy, and when actively used, they quickly lose their beautiful appearance.
• Viscose. Externally, such carpets in the interior are very similar to woolen ones, but their price is more affordable. They are also soft, fluffy, do not deform, and their colors do not fade.
• Environmental materials - bamboo, algae, sisal, jute, cotton, linen. Products made from natural raw materials are good for health and do not cause allergic reactions, but they are much more expensive in comparison with artificial analogues.
• Silk. Very decorative - richly colored carpet threads shine beautifully and shimmer, creating patterns. Although in order to improve the quality and reduce the cost of the production of coatings, artificial threads began to be added to silk threads, nevertheless, such carpets have a very high price, and they do not fit into any interior.
• Wool. Of course, woolen carpets in the interior is a classic solution. Today, manufacturers offer us both pure-wool products, and with various additives. In everyday life, the wool coating is quite convenient, since the wool retains heat well, muffles sounds, does not fade and is not trampled. Such coatings are available in various sizes and colors, with and without drawings - they look great in rooms of any style. But the price of woolen carpets, despite all attempts to reduce the cost of production, remains very high.

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Carpets and interior colors

In a modern interior, the carpet can serve as a neutral background for room design, as well as the main color spot or style accent. Everything will depend on how the color of the coating is selected. When choosing, pay attention to the following nuances:

• Designers unanimously reiterate that in small rooms light coatings are simply necessary, because thanks to them the room looks more spacious and elegant.
• Coatings of neutral natural colors also serve the same thing - all light and cool shades of yellow (beige, milk, cream, sand), violet, calm gray, light green and light blue, grass.

Important! Also visually enlarge the room of the product with a small floral pattern in a calm, not too bright range.

• Dark carpets - purple, dark shades of green and blue, black, chocolate, are well perceived in rooms with a large area. In spacious rooms, for example, in living rooms, coatings with large prints look good - patterns, colors.

Important! In such rooms, brighter colors - purple, orange, red, yellow can advantageously emphasize the space. The scope of the space makes it possible to play with the shape and color of the carpet.

• The carpet, which is a bright spot against the backdrop of a neutral design, will attract the eye - you can scatter such spots around the apartment. In this case, the products do not have to be the same color, but in a single palette.

Important! Using these color spots, you can divide a studio apartment into functional zones.

• The product in a neutral color will look different in a bright and calm interior. If in bright it will remain a beautiful background for furniture and decor, then in neutral it will maintain restraint and calm of the overall design.
• A bright spot of coating will be interesting to look in the same bright interior, where the walls are painted in saturated colors and the riot of colors is stunning. In this case, the carpets in the interior will support the theme of multicolor.
• The classic version of the interior is possible only with a product of a calm color and a minimal amount of drawing. In this case, the shade of the coating should be different from the main color scheme of the room.

Important! It is very good when the carpet color or motif is repeated in decorative interior details - wallpaper, curtains, vases, pillows.

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Shape and size

According to the size ratio, carpets are divided into three main types:

• Small - up to three square meters in size. These small rugs are usually placed on the couch or under the coffee table.
• Medium - their size is from three to six square meters. Medium-sized carpets are often placed in the center of the room.
• Large - measuring more than six square meters.

Important! You need to know that the width of a standard carpet cannot be more than 3.6 meters. The exception is stitched models.

As for the shape of floor coverings, they can be:

• Round.
• Square.
• Rectangular.
• Diamond shaped.
• Polygonal.

When choosing the shape and size of the coating on the floor, it is necessary to consider the following nuances:

• The carpet is able to visually make the room more elongated.
• A carpet over the entire area of ​​a room without an ornament will visually make the room larger.
• Round carpet design is often used to accent the room.
• Rectangular coatings often distinguish a recreation area near the sofa.
• Sometimes the carpet is selected under the shape of a coffee table (rectangular, square, round). The coffee table should stand with all its legs on the pressed-in rug.
• A round rug can make the room a little smaller by visually cutting off the corner sections of the room. This can be avoided if the product is matched to the floor.
• The round product will look harmoniously with a round chandelier hanging above it.
• A long-nap textile covering will give the room the missing share of warmth and comfort.

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Coverings for rooms for various purposes

When choosing a carpet, it is necessary to take into account the features of the room in which it will be located. Let's take a closer look at which carpets are best used in the interior of different rooms.

Bedroom

A bedroom is a room that requires increased sound insulation and the creation of a warm atmosphere in it for a quiet awakening. This is the place where we rest, gain strength and start a new day. Therefore, in the interiors of bedrooms, you can often find a combination of two options for flooring. For example, a carpet that covers the entire area, combined with small fluffy rugs near a dressing table or bed.

When choosing a cover for a bedroom, it is advisable to pay attention to some nuances:

• Light products with a long nap will not only create a cozy and warm atmosphere for sleeping and relaxing, but also muffle the steps, creating sufficient sound insulation.
• A product of a light shade or with a diagonal pattern can visually expand the space. You can choose a large rug with a long pile, as well as small fluffy bedside rugs.
• A long pile of chocolate shade on the coating, which covers the entire area of ​​the room, will not only provide warmth for your legs, but also create an interesting interior design.

Important! In combination with a light ceiling and walls, such floors will visually expand the space and add height.

• A product with a colorful pattern will more harmoniously look in the bedroom, during the design of which monophonic types of decor and decoration materials were used.
• And vice versa - plain coatings are recommended for rooms with printed wall decoration. For example, if the pattern on the wallpaper is bright and active enough, then a plain light carpet will be more than appropriate.

Children

When choosing a carpet product for a children's room, it is important to consider such features:

• For children's rooms, coverings with geometric patterns or images of cartoon, fairy-tale characters are perfect.
• It is advisable to choose products with a short pile - cleaning in the nursery has to be done more often than in other rooms, and it is much more difficult to cope with a long pile.
• When choosing a cover for a child’s room, it is necessary to take into account not only the aesthetic side of the issue and operational properties. It is important to make sure that the product was stained with safe dyes - ask your sales consultants for a quality certificate.
• Floor carpet with colorful bright squares not only look optimistic and provocatively in the nursery, but also creates an additional base for different games.

Living room

For the living room, there are practically no restrictions when choosing carpets. The main thing is that from the point of view of texture, color and style, the carpet is in harmony with the rest of the room design:

• For some owners, it is important that the carpet product serves as a neutral background for the furniture located on it and fulfill its operational functions. Others, on the contrary, are sure that carpet can become an accent in interior design, acting as a focal point.
• For the living room, where, among other things, there is a dining room and kitchen, the carpet can serve as a zoning tool. It will outline the conditional boundaries of a functional segment. It is logical that in the kitchen area the flooring is covered with stone or ceramic tiles, and in the living room segment the floors will be covered with a fluffy and soft carpet.
• In the living room, which is made in natural, calm colors, the light carpet product is integrated very successfully, as it creates the cozy and warm atmosphere necessary for the common room.
• Dark coatings need more frequent and thorough cleaning, since even the smallest debris is clearly visible on such a surface. However, the enhanced cleaning will be more than compensated by the wonderful appearance of the dark carpet, its beautiful combination with other objects in the interior.

Corridors, hallways and spaces near stairs

For rooms with high traffic it is advisable to adhere to the following tips:

• It is better to buy synthetic or semi-synthetic products with a short pile. Here you have to do the cleaning much more often, and a small pile will be faster and easier to clean even with a vacuum cleaner with a small capacity.
• As for color schemes, ornaments and prints - here everything will be limited only by your personal preferences. However, there are unspoken rules of combinatorics: if the room is made in neutral, bright colors, then the bright carpets in the interior will become the focal point.
• A carpet with a colorful pattern will look more organically in the created interior if its colors have already been used in the process of decorating the space, for example, in textile window decoration or upholstery of upholstered furniture.

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Style subtleties

Fashionable carpets in the interior support different styles and can be:

• Graphic - dashes, ornaments, stripes, squares, can be either one or two-tone, and please the eye with a wide range of colors.
• Antigraphy. A fresh development of designers that represents the capabilities of Photoshop on the cover - color transitions, gradient, drawings in the style of retouching or watercolor.
• Animalistic - after the clothes, the fashion for spots of giraffes and leopards, stripes of zebras and plumage of birds switched to carpets.
• Vintage - these are old shabby carpets, as if recreating the lost connection of generations.
• Fusion - has bright and saturated colors, coatings have original irregular shapes.

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The main secret of carpet design in the interior is that they can be both a great addition to the overall interior of the room, as well as a refreshing, bright accent. The most important thing is that in such a room it is comfortable and cozy!