As a consumer you have many things to consider when purchasing your carpet; whether you are considering replacing your old carpet, a styling change, or maybe giving your home a fresh new look – by choosing a new colour palette based on current trends. It is important to consider the following details to ensure that your colour selection and your carpet choice are right for your home.

Considerations:

• What is your homes decor style? Is it modern, classic, country, Edwardian or contemporary?
• What will the foot traffic be like in the rooms you have decided to re-carpet with Access International Distributors’ Carpet?
• Another important factor to consider is the depth of colour of your new carpet purchase, especially if you have children or pets.

We recommend that you should set a budget for the highest quality you can afford. Your budget and investment decision will make sure that you are satisfied with your carpet choice in future years.

Fibre type and Yarn construction are important factors in the choice of your carpet, especially for appearance and texture retention, together with the longevity and performance.

So, your selection of an Access International Distributors’ carpet will provide you with the long-lasting comfort you deserve in your family home. Our carpet quality assurance program ACQS-8000+ and our carpet performance program, the Carpet Rating Index (CRI) is designed to give your carpet the correct balance between, the amount and quality of fibre in the pile of the carpet.

Generally, a carpets performance over time will depend on the fibre quality and density of the carpet at the time of manufacturing.

You can individually tailor the quality of the carpet to the foot traffic you will experience according to the use in each area of your home, i.e: Bedrooms will experience less foot traffic than your main living and TV areas.

Aesthetics and what is on trend play a very important role in choosing your carpet, as it affects the ambiance, mood, feeling and personality of your home. Selecting the correct colour is very important, as the colour of the carpet can make a room appear larger or smaller, as well as improving the ambiance and mood created by natural and artificial light in the room.

Once you have selected your carpet at the retail store, you should take a sample home and compare the colour in both natural light and the lighting in your home at different times of the day. Colour will vary under different light sources, normal tungsten globes cast a red tone, florescent light cast a blue tone, and natural daylight is in between these two light sources. Darker, multi coloured and heavily textured design and pattern carpet are effective at helping to mask soiling compared to lighter and solid shade carpets.

When selecting your carpet, the consideration of texture verses a non-textured cut pile and twist carpet constructions is a very important choice. The non-textured cut pile and some twist pile constructions can show a phenomena called permanent pile reversal, a characteristic and look that depends on your visual taste and acceptance of this possible visual effect at the time of purchase.

Generally, this effect is more susceptible in high quality non-textured plush or cut pile carpets. Please ask your retailer to explain to you how this visual effect may affect your choice of carpet construction. Loop pile and textured carpets and twist pile carpets present a more uniform finish over time.

If your home has pets, their claws can catch on loop pile and textured carpets causing some sprouting, cut pile and twist carpets are the most suitable selection to reduce this possibility.

Like every new carpet purchase it is a major investment for the homeowner, and like your other home furnishings carpet requires a programmed maintenance schedule to protect your investment in the years to come.