Despite the continuing upward trend in hard surface floor installations, we feel carpet is still an unsung hero in the residential flooring world.
This is why meeting with an experienced, local flooring professional is essential when it comes to choosing flooring and carpet options for your Central Florida home.
Visit one of Creative Floors’ Central Florida Showrooms To Find The Best Carpet For You
Working directly with knowledgeable flooring professionals at Creative Floors is the only way to guarantee you select the right carpeting for your home, lifestyle, and location.
There are several reasons carpeting continues to be a popular residential flooring choice, which include:
- Providing a softer and warmer feel underfoot.
- Offering a cushioned landing (or dropping) pad.
- Creating sound buffering benefits between different floors, rooms, or in larger areas of the home where echoing acoustics can cause sound amplification or confusion.
- Augmenting the existing interior design by providing necessary texture, color, or pattern.
Using Carpet To Enhance Your Lifestyle: Choose Wisely!
We recently read a post in Business Insider titled ‘We Chose the Wrong Flooring… ‘which goes on to discuss the author’s multi-thousand-dollar home renovation that resulted in serious flooring regrets for three of the most significant rooms in their house. Don’t let this happen to you!
Working with local flooring pros is always better than trusting the sales reps at big-box stores or online vendors. We dedicate our work lives to learning everything we can about our clients so we can match their flooring to their homes and lifestyles. The more we know about both, the better we can ensure you steer clear of common flooring myths or assumptions that lead to regret down the road.
For example, hard surface flooring may not be the right choice for spaces you thought it would be. Larger rooms with ample wooden furniture can feel cold and echoey. Or you may be surprised your pet won’t go down flights of stairs without carpet, which gives them a better grip (you read that correctly; we have lots of carpet options specifically for pet owners.
When you work with us, we’ll learn everything we can about you so we can hone in on the perfect-fit options for your home. We want to know:
- Whether you have kids and their ages.
- If living spaces are adjacent to outdoor areas (especially if that includes a pool or hot tub).
- Do any members of your family have sound sensitivities, or are they hard of hearing (hard surface flooring without any sound buffering can exacerbate hearing loss)?
- Are there plans to rent or sell the home in the next five to 10 years?
- Would you like to age in place? Or, do you have senior loved ones who visit regularly?
- And so on.
Creative Floors Top Carpet Recommendation For Orlando-Area Homeowners
From there, we’ll make recommendations that we guarantee will look great and enhance the function of your living space.
1) Carpets With Low-Pile Benefits
If you’re installing carpet in busier areas of the home, have pets, or have active little children, we recommend looking for carpets described as “low-pile.” This means the carpeting is made with short, tightly woven fibers, resulting in a flat, dense, and durable surface.
Low-pile carpets are better for areas of the home that require:
- Water and moisture resistance.
- Easy clean-up.
- Stain repelling.
- Less evidence of footprints (or paw prints).
This makes it a wise choice for:
- Busy family rooms or dens.
- Hallways.
- Staircases.
- Bedrooms that have little ones or that pets are allowed to inhabit.
Low-pile carpet is divided into two types: the first is called cut piles (standard carpeting where fibers are cut and individual), and loop piles, where carpet fibers loop back and attach to the carpet backing. Loop pile carpet (frequently referred to as Berber) has a clean look, and the loops create a softer look and feel for the extra-low pile option.
2. Cut-loop Carpet
Cut-loop carpeting combines carpet fibers that are both cut with an edge, like traditional carpet, or looped back into the carpet backing material. This variation in carpet fibers creates attractive colors and can also be intentionally designed to create a pattern.
Cut-loop carpeting is ideal for:
- Homeowners looking to up their textural design aesthetics.
- Not able to vacuum as often as they’d like (the varied patterns and color options are better at hiding dirt and smaller, tracked-in debris until they can be cleaned up).
- Rooms that would benefit from patterns, which can be as subtle or bold as you like.
- Rental investment properties, as they don’t show long-standing furniture imprints the way regular cut carpet fibers do.
It’s worth keeping in mind that any cut-loop carpets (or the low-pile, looped carpet we mentioned in #1) may be susceptible to catching on paws, claws, and high-heeled shoes. However, most high-quality lines aren’t as prone to this, so we can help guide you in the right direction if this is a concern.
3) Multi-Tonal Carpet
Multi-tonal carpets come in every style (low-pile, high-pile, cut- and cut-loop), and the term itself means there’s more than one fiber color in the mix. Carpets in the multi-tonal category can be quite monochromatic or super colorful, offering both understated and bold ways to play with color.
Multi-tonal carpet is a good option for:
- Adding color or visual texture.
- Rooms where cracker crumbs or pet kibble bits may be around for a while before they’re vacuumed.
- Rental or vacation homes as multi-tonal surfaces hide things better than smooth or single-color options.
4) Plush Carpets
Do you love the feel of soft, luxuriously plush carpeting on your bare feet, or enjoy the way it looks in formal spaces? Then don’t shy away from plush options. If you don’t have any children or pets, they may be a great wall-to-wall option for your home.
However, even busy households can enjoy them with careful attention to installation locations. Plush carpets work best:
- In any home without much kid or pet traffic.
- Areas of the home that are less busy (formal living or dining rooms, home office, etc.)
- As custom area rugs that can be used to define an area of the room (like the couch, chairs, and coffee table zone), leaving higher-traffic zones with low-pile carpeting or hard surface options.
Visit Creative Carpets In Casselberry To Choose Your Carpet
Coming into one of Creative Floors’ two Central Florida locations or scheduling an in-home consultation is the first and most crucial step to choosing carpet you’ll love for a lifetime.
Are you ready to get started choosing one or more of these top carpet recommendations for Orlando-area homes? Contact us here at Creative Floors, and we’ll guide you through the process.