Room by room Guide

A soft, luxurious carpet looks great in any room.

There is nothing like getting out of bed and your feet touching the warmth and comfort of carpet. The bedroom is also the one room where one can be really indulgent - it is a very personal space. You can be unashamedly decadent; opulent; bold or sophisticated; uncompromisingly modernist; classic or futurist - the choice is yours! It is also in terms of wear, the room that will take the least so, frankly, you need not spend as much on a bedroom carpet as on a carpet for elsewhere in the home.

It is often assumed that carpet is not suitable for a bathroom. This is not true. Ideally your choice of carpet here will be totally synthetic, including the backing, particularly in households with young children as there is the potential for the carpet to get soaked! Carpet should only be avoided if it is going to get drenched on a regular basis!

The hallway takes a lot of through traffic so your carpet needs to be hardwearing. There is no reason, however, why it shouldn't look just as exciting as the rest of your home.

For the Hall, Stairs and Landing you really need a Quality Mark carpet that is at least Heavy Domestic and possibly Extra Heavy Domestic and probably one with an 80% wool content. Design and colour wise, here one has great scope to really 'make an entrance'. Do consider an attractive stair runner.

The living room, as the name suggests, is often the 'hub' of a household and so, here again, a hard wearing, practical carpet is best. Style wise, you have free rein to select from the full range on offer. Remember that, on a like for like basis, the difference between a twist pile and a velvet pile is purely aesthetic while a light coloured carpet will make the room feel bigger.