Category: Affordable Carpet

All About Carpet

April 18th, 2012
When you decide to purchase new carpet for your home, you’re choosing a style of flooring with a rich and interesting history. The first carpets were colorful tapestries that were actually used solely for decoration. Hung on walls, tapestries told famous stories and were considered to be more like paintings than carpets. Carpet wasn’t widely [...]

Carpet or Area Rugs?

February 13th, 2012
To a majority of shoppers, area rugs and carpets are essentially the same. An area rug is just a smaller carpet, right? This is actually a common misconception; carpets and area rugs are similar, but serve different purposes. Carpets: Carpet is a warm and inviting style of flooring. Maybe it was the comfort of carpet [...]

Choosing Carpet

December 6th, 2011
Of all the different styles of flooring available, from carpet to stone tile to hardwood, you decided to choose carpet as the new flooring in your home. Carpet has a rich history, but wasn’t typically used as an interior floor covering in Europe until the 18th century. Since then, people have come to realize that [...]

How to Choose the Right Flooring for Your Home

December 1st, 2011
When you’re looking to fix up a room in your home, you may think first of wall color, then of furniture, and lastly of the flooring. After painting the walls a lovely new color and finding furniture to fit the room, you may think laying down a simple area rug is your best option. There [...]

What to Consider When Choosing Flooring

November 17th, 2011
There are many types of flooring available to choose from, but which is the right type of flooring for you? While it might be cheaper to purchase an area rug, it may not suit your needs as well as you would hope. So what type of flooring should you choose? Stone Tile: Stone tile is [...]