Carpet Colours Are VERY Limited

It sounds beautiful Crosstichfan very calming and perfect for a house near the sea.😃

One reason for the lack of choice of colours is because so many houses these days do not have any fitted carpets. We do not have any, it is an old house with lovely floor boards and when we move, all the carpets in our new home will be ripped up for the same reason.

The other reason there are limited carpet colours is because that is what the majority of purchasers want, and in a, now, limited market, manufacturers can't afford to make carpet they cannot be sure of selling.

Having said that DD has just had the bedroom floor of her new home carpetted in a delicious pale mint green. She saw the carpet in a sample book at Tapi, but bought it and had it fitted by a local carpet company. I was with her when she chose it and the carpet sample books we looked at all had a range of colours available.

NotSpaghetti

I think all carpets are mass produced J52 - unless you commission a bespoke piece at thousands of pounds.

The machinery necessary for carpet production is very costly and not easy to swap about as the downtime is also very expensive.

Rugs are different and can be made more "to order".

Well yes I know that. However, the carpet warehouses stock limited ranges, few wool carpets, as we found. They are mostly man made which are popular. The colours of the carpets do reflect the current trends.
I was only pointing out that if people want better quality and choice in colours the independent retailers usually can order individual ranges.

Axminster make carpets in every colour, and patterned.
www.axminster-carpets.co.uk/

So - this is going off topic a little, but still about buying carpets.

Set a budget - a traditionally woven carpet could be £100 a sqM and more. At that price you’d expect it to last many, many years - but do you actually want that? Been there and it’s a now a definite’no’ from me.

Axminster or Wilton? The difference is in the construction. Despite popular opinion, Wilton isn’t better.

Content? Wool, or an 80/20 mix? However, man made fibres are really good these days and it often takes a professional to tell the difference. Cheaper too, so you needn’t feel guilty about changing it to suit a new colour scheme!

Broadloom or body? Do you want a carpet 12 ft wide, or in narrower widths, sewn together in situ - the latter will produce quite a bit of wastage, especially in matching a large pattern.

Pile?? Deep and luxurious or short and velvety? Then be prepared for what will look like early wear - it’s called pile pressure at first. Also look at the gauge - still measured in ounces I think.

Finally fitting and buy the best underlay you can afford, as well as making any carpet more comfortable underfoot - you’ll be able to reuse it a couple of times.

Tapi do a nice herringbone carpet M0nica - we had several samples of theirs when doing a bedroom recently as they do a 100% wool.

There’s certainly a lot to consider Georgesgran we did lots of research beforehand online before the trip to the carpet shop to choose.
I knew we didn’t want wool or loop type carpet which helped narrow things down.

Four years ago I had my whole house carpeted in light grey. Good quality which I said would last me out.
Then my cat died and I adopted two others. One strops his claws on the stairs and is very often sick. There isn’t a square foot of carpet which hasn’t been sicked on. Both shed their luscious long fur all over the house.
My 200 year old floorboards aren’t fit to be exposed and the carpet was a big mistake.

That’s a lorra lorra lot of cocaine, don’t get it all over the carpet,
But if you do, just say it’s Shake N Vac.

REPORTED
In case you didn’t Oreo

I also reported it.

It's my fault- they looked at my wild stripy hall carpet and thought - hmm, there's a customer for us.

ha, ha,

When I had a new green carpet in my bedroom recently, the carpet layer commented how nice it was to be laying a carpet that wasn't grey (ugh!) or beige (boring).

windmill1

eazybee

How can y u say they are limited when there are at least 25 shades of sludge available?

Ha! Ha!

LOL, so true

Yes lots of sludge about, but think about the wear pattern, (your gandchildren/dogs/hubby)and the other colours you want for your room and do a palette - you may find medium sludge is fine (Hee Hee)

In the 70s we put bright orange wallpaper with gold sunbursts in our hallway, and turquoise blue in our loo, but we only spent minutes in either; our lounge carpet was a then trendy coffee, quiet and practical with pale cream cushions (washable). My point is that colour is OK, but you have to sit with it and live with it for many years.

PS. I did laugh at a design programme where the comment was that the highly patterned carpets are due a comback!!

Use an independent carpet retailer. Our local one has a whole rainbow spectrum to choose from.

Agree loads of colours to choose from

I have an olivey green carpet up my stairs and in all the bedrooms. It seems to go with my old house and the hilly landscape outside. It also seems to complement any of the paint colours I like, such as white, cream, pale olive and Setting Plaster. (Not sure if that's the name, but I know "plaster" is in there somewhere!
I reported the cocaine thread too - maybe it was sparked by the post about pain relief!

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I love my striped sitting room carpet..
I would never buy grey, beige or pale yellowish/cream shades.

If I could afford it I'd buy something really terrific for my stairs and landing...
I saw this in a magazine the other day and just loved it so much I needed a photo (for when I have money to burn you understand)...
The other photo is my sitting room carpet as I lounged about in the sun earlier.

I’ve been watching Homes Under the Hammer. Every house has black, white and grey. Grey carpets, grey kitchens, black fixtures and fittings. When will it end.

Better still, look at Rightmove, as we ad DD have been for the past year as we both move house. It is grey as far as the eye can see, with matching furniture, curtains, and, probably, occupants. I have a grey bathroom and the rest of the house is much more cheerful colours.

Oreo

It sounds beautiful Crosstichfan very calming and perfect for a house near the sea.😃

So sorry Oreo. Missed your message and came across it by accident today! Just wanted to say thank you!