carpet

Carpet Styles

No matter what design scheme you want to craft for your home, soft carpet will lend warmth and comfort with no shortage of fantastic style.

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.

Carpet swatches | Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors
Textured carpet from shaw | Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors

carpet style

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

carpet style

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
Carpet swatch | Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors
Carpet swatch | Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors

carpet style

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

carpet style

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
Carpet swatch | Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors
Carpet swatch | Roberts Carpet & Fine Floors

carpet style

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