carpet styles
5 basic styles
Choosing the ideal carpet style is all about determining your winning combination of aesthetics, performance, and budget that fits your lifestyle effectively and beautifully.
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Textured
- Textured carpet offers casual appeal
- Cut pile carpets are extremely popular with homeowners
- Alternating twists of yarn produce the texture
- Texture can create a two-tone appearance
- Excellent for hiding footprints & vacuum strokes
- Great fit for active families in all areas of the home
- Wide range of prices to fit most budgets
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Frieze
- Specific cut pile variety with a high twist level
- Tightly twisted strands of yarn produce curls at the end
- Excellent match for active areas
- Textured surface provides visual interest
- Extremely durable and wears admirably
- Performance can handle high-traffic areas
- Suitable anywhere throughout the home
- Hides footprints between vacuuming
- Different pile heights create different looks
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Designer Patterns
- High visual interest for chic style
- Often cut pile variety with a high twist level
- Perform suitably in active homes
- Enhances durability and slows wearing
- Work well in high-traffic areas
- Great fit throughout the home
- Hides footprints & dirt better than other styles
- Combine with different pile heights for unique looks
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Looped / Berber
- Also referred to as Berber
- Bulky yarns used in a level or multi-level loop
- Created from olefin fiber
- Can also be made with nylon or a fiber blend
- Exceptional durability since yarn tips remain uncut
- Individual loops remain visible
- Perfect for casual, active family rooms
- Available in solid colors, fleck, and patterns with varying levels of loops
- Disguises traffic patterns over time
- Need to be mindful of visible seams
- Using on stairs will make backing more visible
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Cut & Loop
- Pattern effects created by a combination of cut and looped yarns and variation in surface textures
- Low profile carpet provides incredible performance
- Use to create casual and traditional rooms
- High fashion qualities
- Enhances fun geometric and formal botanical patterns alike
- Distinctive carved appearance and multi-colored visual
- Hides stains better than other styles
- Handles foot traffic well
- Need to be mindful of visible seams