New Carpet next week- Excited 😊

NotSpaghetti

Yes, Bea65 - finally replaced the 100% wool carpets in two downstairs rooms and a bedroom this last year with new 100% wool carpets.

They were about 20years old and still (remarkably) looked ok but one was starting to show wear (!) at the threshold...

We had new "quality" underlay too. Very excited.. My new carpets are beautiful. 😍

I would have liked an "Audrey" carpet by Crucial Trading really... but could neither afford nor justify it.
I've found it hard to bin the stunning sample though!
(Photos are marketing images of Audrey and the one we bought instead for our sitting room.)

That your stripey new carpet? Gosh, it's brill!

Oh crikey DanniRae - that is my one big worry with wool.

We have bought a self-emptying robot vacuum for the top floor. There is no way I'd hoover up there very often (lugging Henry 3 floors).

It isn't as powerful as Henry but does go over it thoroughly 4 times a week. 🤞

I have a stripey carpet .... in brown and cream tones .... on my stairs and landing. Really realistic faux wood in the hall. I had it all done about 2/3 years ago and I am very pleased with it.
Not so pleased with our living room carpet because I foolishly chose a very light colour (whywhy?) and although it is moth resistant the moths in our area are definitely NOT resistant to it. We will get a new living room carpet whe we can face moving all the furniture .... and it will not be a light coloured wool!

Sorry Bea65, I mispelt Karndean. Luxury vinyl tiles- looks like wood or tiles. Yes, Google.
I have got different versions in my kitchen and hall.

Or www.karndean.com/en-gb/floors/. This is not meant to be an advert. Amtico is very similar.
This is not carpet, so apologies if it is misleading.

I agree that any new household upgrades are exciting, though the decision making and temporary chaos are hard.

On the subject of carpets, I thought I'd shard these fabulous samples which ard today off to my daughter's house for crafts with her little one...
These are mainly the 😍 "Audrey" ones, mentioned earlier.

If you can do it I'd maybe start with a lot of steam an inch above the carpet Bea.

Obviously I don't know what fibres are in your carpet but I'd think it was worth a go.
🤞

Never heard of Karndene? Will google

NotSpaghetti am not very bendy or mobile… in fact haven’t needed to use my steam iron in 20+years 😂

I am gradually recarpeting the house as I declutter. I think my late husband did not like to have any empty space, so there is a lot of stuff to get rid of.
I have put a grey carpet in the bedroom which I love, but put Karndene tiles in the sun room which I love equally. They are so easy to keep clean - it gets dirty from coming in from the garden.
My next target is the main living room. Still too much stuff, and I won’t be getting rid of the piano, so recarpeting won’t be easy. Ideally Karndene would be great, with a nice rug, but I think it may have to be carpet. No idea what colour, but one that wont show every mark.

Thanks, I'll try that!

I have lifted pile on things with just steam from an iron.

Might be worth a go?

Do you mean a steam H20 vacuum or appliance?

If you do have an indent won't it steamback up?
Just wondering

Bea, we have just put down a twist type, looks like a sort of cord, in our hall, stairs and landing, it doesn't crush or leave marks. We have an ordinary, supposedly very hard wearing one in the lounge area where we can't move the furniture as it's left big indents. It's so annoying so be wary of what you put down. Hope this helps.

Bea - would a berber/loop type be less crushable?
You could ask...

We had new lounge carpet nearly a year ago. It is wool. Can’t remember the make but the shade is called coffee and cream. We also had the best underlay. I love it. When you look at the whole carpet instead of just that bit of photo it looks lovely with two tones and a nice texture.

My daughter has very similar to the striped carpet above which looks great in her place but wouldn’t go in mine as I already have lots of colours going on.

Is it a Wilton? That's the best.

Love the stripe style- quite a statement 👌but only have small lounge - carpet man coming back on Friday 🤞will have to be 100% certain this time

So… changed my mind overnight as, with me using crutches/sticks around the house, the colour sample the very nice carpet man left me now has indentations on it …sent him a quick text to see if he could visit again with darker samples or, alternative flooring- thank goodness he hadn’t pre ordered 🙃 will try to attach little pic here
Does anyone have this issue of indents on carpets - am now thinking rubber/vinyl/hybrid soo many types - yikes 😟

Our house is Victorian and not very regular but the carpet fitter lined our stripes up with the "most visible" edge. The other side is largely hidden with a bay window and a big radiator. Really it's only the two sides that are an issue. You can't tell that the ends of the stripes are out by maybe 2 inches and the room is a bit wonky.

Doodledog you would definitely notice with the wide "Audrey" stripes!

That striped carpet is gorgeous! I'd love something like that, but my house is old and wonky, and stripes would never line up, and would show up that the walls are not straight. We went for boring beige, with a barely there splodgy pattern so it's not so plain that it shows every mark. I like it a lot, but it doesn't make a statement like the striped ones.

Bea63
I hope you love your choice of carpet as much as I love ours!

I have yet to be able to do the stairs... 3 landings and lots of stairs (3 storey house) with turns... not sure we can stretch to more stripes as there would be a lot of waste I think...
Have bought a loop carpet in a plain colour for the bedroom.

Too many other expenses at the moment so time to think...

I can't believe there are 3 of us with the same carpet! And in the lime/red colourway too! It is SO totally stunning and gorgeous.

I just have it in the sitting room. I have another colour in the cheaper tufted version (instead of looped version) in the dining room. Chocolate/blue I think it's called. It has exactly the colors of the Minton tiles in our hallway.

Some carpet fitters are excellent. How lovely to have purple at the edges like a frame. 😍