How to Create a More Vibrant Living Space
Increasingly carpet retailers have embarked on a mission to increase awareness among people at how useful home ideas with carpet can be in transforming your home. Many of this season’s carpet designs have an extravagant handmade feel, which leads on from the fashion for individuality as being the new luxury. Using carpet to highlight certain areas in your living space, such as bedrooms and snugs is a clever way to add texture, a feeling of cosiness and comfort that makes the difference between a ‘house’ and a ‘haven’.
In recent times carpet has been a material that interior designers have loved to incorporate within their designs as an integral feature, as it adds an element of style and warmth that moves beyond purely the aesthetics. It’s the single thing visitors will often comment on after experiencing carpet used this way even if they’d previously had a preference for a different type 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 significant trends in the fashion world continue to infiltrate interior design, providing exciting, hip flooring options for the home.
Premier fashion designers such as Paul Smith play a key role in inspiring the bold colour palettes we now see in striped carpet collections. Many of the new styles are being given headline space in the world of interiors and cladding the coolest floors across the nation. Brightly coloured stripes can add an extra something to neutrally decorated rooms, or make a subtle impact, complementing different scale striped soft furnishings.
Flooring which features striped carpet makes a bold style statement, introducing a wider range of colour into the home - without relying on colourful accessories - and adds a vibrant feel that neutral tones on their own are unable to. Bold tangerine and pinks are fundamental to this season’s new collections with secondary colours including shades of greys and taupe’s.
It has long been noted that fashion and interior trends often go hand in hand; there is also an agreement among interior designers that it’s great fun to be working with carpet again after years of having to focus on alternative flooring choices. A stripy pattern can be put to effective use in flooring and can be used as a great design tool. They can be used to elongate rooms, adjust perspective, and bring together much wider colour palettes than you’d usually be able to use.
