How to Choose Carpet for Bedrooms?

In this article, how to choose carpet for bedroom, we will be looking into more detailed perspectives of carpet choice. Choosing any other furniture, let alone carpet, requires much consideration in terms of its fit for the setting. Let’s find out details from the most minute triggers of the purchase choices.

Needless to say, carpets serve as essential items for every household nowadays. Normally, house owner would make purchase of the carpet on the very first moment of housing decoration. Hence, the common process that require a person to consider buying new carpets would be those critical moment of moving to a new house, orthat when the owner almost finishes building the house or whenthey are in need of changing those old and  worn-out carpet. 

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The choice of carpet depends largely on the position the house owner prefer to put it on, the weather condition of the country, the level of humidity, other furniture as well as the room decoration as a whole. Normally, carpet is such an essential item that every part of the house calls for the existence of one (of course with different sizes), ranging from living room, bathroom to bedrooms.

Why should carpet be used in bedrooms?

First of all, the texture and colors of carpet add up to, not to mention determine the vibe and atmosphere of your bedrooms. A spread of carpet besides your bed or close up to the nearby couches covers the bland floor thus provides comfort to your walking feet upon every step whether to rest or to work.

A wise use of carpet also spices up the bedroom with a sense of elegance to an extent. Imagine a room with a feather, beige/ mild color carpet set on a wooden – decorated room would provide a considerable sense of warmth and softness to the stiff and sharp edge tinge of wooden décor. 

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What is more, carpet lessens the clanking noise – which would be created by the touch of slippers, of feet or any other objects to the floor. Carpets by all means help minimize noises, especially for household with wooden or cold brick floor. Also, putting a carpet under tablesdo not only enhance such sense of aesthetics, but alsosignificantly reduces unnecessary frictions, slips or damagesthe table legs could have made on the floor surface. 

Moreover, carpet, more often than not, brings about the feeling of warmth, smoothness and pamper. The touch of carpet subconsciously generates a sense of relaxation to a great extent that most houseowner could not resist having at least one in either living room, or bedroom, or right outside the bathrooms. 

What’s the proper budget for bedrooms carpet?

The price of carpet largely depends on several factors including materials, size, colors, use and even owner’s preferences. Budget for carpets varies greatly. You can either have a Lacoste small foot carpet of the size 60 x 85 (cm) that cost $200 or an Ikea living room carpet of the size 200 x 320 (cm) for just only $60.

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Amongst the above mentioned factors, size and materials more often than not, play a decisive role in determining the price of each carpet. The highest price point usually goes to those carpets with real fur or high quality pile fabric (also known as fake/faux fur). And ofcourse, the bigger the carpet, the more expensive the price is. 

Within a simple click and search action, putting aside those luxury brands originated from the Northern Italy or Mid of France,  the result came out as close as $220 for a soft, bedside carpet of the size 0.6 x 1.8 (m), fake fur, brown color.

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For a cheaper option, another, also fake fur carpet, bedside, white with the size 55 x 85 cm cost only $12.99 in Ikea. 

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Despite the variation, for an average household, the budget for carpet should range from $10 to $150 depending on the sizes, places and uses of the soon-to-be decoration garment of your household.

What’s the ideal material for carpet?

Usually produced using a variety of both synthetics and natural materials, the four most common type of fiber used for manufacturing a carpet are nylon, polyester, polypropylene and wool. Carpet are often made using 2 main parts, (1) the backbone of the carpet – the backing materials which serves as the base to which the materials/ fiber is attached and (2) the fiber. The fiber is simply sew into the backing material. Different sewing patterns, density and materials results in different carpet pattern and styles.

Nylon fiber:

Nylon fiber are often the go-to choices for cheaper carpet manufacturer. Nylon are synthetic, soft, durable and resistant to any unwanted stains, friction or abrasion. Also, nylon are a material of high resilience. Long-used and stained nylon carpet can be easily cleaned by steam cleaning as steam cleaning help restore the carpet to pretty much its original condition. As mentioned before, nylon takes up for 75% of carpet materials and are widely present in carpet manufacturing.

Polyester fiber:

Polyester fiber has long been prioritized for its color. The polyester fiber are also a wonder of synthetic materials for its power in holding any type of color, ranging from pure state color of red, blue, green to the whole new world of dimension, colors and shade such as rose gold or gold. 

Fiber made from polyester are also fade-resistant and non-allergic. Hence the owner could be less of worry for the life-span of the carpet to be purchased. Some of the carpet manufacturers even use recycle plastics to make polyester string – which is a highly eco-friendly movement. Polyester has only one cons, that is to be easily flattened under weight. House owner should not choose polyester carpet for areas with high frequencies of by-walkers.

Polypropylene fiber:

Polypropylene can be considered nylon’s sibling. Polypropylene is also known as olenfin, a fake fiber mimicking the feel of wool and thus be considered a close alternative to wool. Olefin is similar to nylon in that it is stain-resistant. However, due to manufacturing characteristic, this material is easily subject to soiling and dirt due to its adherence features. Also, this sibling is not as resilient as its brother nylon.

Wool fiber:

Needless to say, wool is categorized into the luxurious type of material considered for a carpet. Due to its characteristics of being natural, soft yet long lasting, wool is by far the best material for a carpet for any house owner to find. 

However, just like with clothing garment made of wool, wool carpets are subject to easy staining. Considering high-quality wool, even though it is less likely to be stained, this type of material is on the top high-end section thus would cost a real considerable amount of money. Fair enough, there is a solution to maximize the pros and minimize the cons of this material, that some manufacturer mix both wool and synthetic materials to reduce cost, while still maintain certain softness due to the material’s features.

Putting into consideration, the best material for bedroom carpet would go to wool and polypropylene. The use of these two type of materials signifies the softness feel of the carpet, thus welcome all sense of relaxation that are expected to be present in the bedroom. 

Cut pile:

Cut pile are often the cheaper choice of carpet while it stills provides soft yet easily-cleaned carpets. Different cutting styles based of the cutting angle of the material piles results in different texture and carpet styles. Different cutting styles are often:

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The only weakness of these cut pile method is that it ends up with clear footmark or vacuum trails after harsh pressure. The wear and tear are appears at higher frequencies or in other words, replacement are required more often.

What’s the ideal color palette for bedroom carpet?

Bedroom, by all means, are the top place of relaxation whenever it comes to mind of anybody. Hence, the decoration in the bedroom is always constructed to generate a sense of warmth, soft, mild yet chilling sense of relaxation.

The choice of color for carpet is of great range. While the first criteria of the carpet is to match the bedroom interior décor and color scheme, more often than not, bedroom carpet is usually selected amongst very neutral tone and bright color. 

Hence, those of beige, cream white, mild wooden color are of the majority favor. Furthermore, bedroom carpet should not be filled with intricate patterns. Especially in this era of modern minimalism, the simpler, the better for housing décor.

What are the other factors to put into consideration upon choosing a carpet?

Climate:

Yesh! A huge problem to be worry about. Normally in western countries, the climate and humidity is not to the adverse extent hence preserving the carpet condition is not of a major problem.

However, in Eastern countries, especially in the area of South East Asia with high precipitation and humidity, keeping the carpet in a good state is causing much pain for house owner. 

As humidity put a damper on the carpet condition, the in-house humidity level should be controlled simultaneously. When the humidity is too high, dehumidifiers should be put into practice to maintain not only the household condition in general, but also other furniture and carpets in particular. 

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During drier seasons, outside air are welcomed. House owner should open the window to let the air from outside in to encourage natural ventilation. The dry and fresh air is not only good for human health, but also fresh for other furniture.

Besides controlled humidity, the temperature in the house also play an important role in determining the life-span of the carpet. Carpet materials can largely be affected by temperature either hot or cold. In-house temperature should be kept at a rate ranging room 22 to 30 degree Celsius for the best conservation of inhouse-furniture.

Another tip is to use a fan or drier to dry out the carpet in case of submerge and emergencies. Mold spores takes only 1 to 2 days to become active and destroy certain part of the carpet. 

Pets

Household with pets also need to put certain things into notice. Upon having carpets and pets at the same time, depending on the carpet’s materials, areas that are pet-restricted should be framed accordingly. 

Especially for woolen carpets, house owner should keep those carpets outside the reach of their pets as the paws of even the most common pets (that are cats and dogs, or those cute kittens and puppies) could break out the fiber and ruin the carpet in the blink of an eye. 

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Carpets’ sizes:

Normally, small carpets are often choose according to the owner’s preferences. However, especially for floor-filled carpets, there has long been one tips for size measurements. The size should follow the formula:

(Maximum room length + 10cm) x (maximum room width + 10cm)

The plus 10cm is necessary in order to prevent too short of those carpet edges. Uncovered area are actually the most vulnerable areas to welcome all types of dirt.

Carpet cleaning:

There are 2 rules of thumb for cleaning carpet:

Always try your best to keep your carpet dryVacuum at least twice a  week

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Especially for bedroom carpets, house owner actually do not have to put in too much care as bedroom area are usually cleaner and less subject to movement, traffic as well as outside dirt. It is just that normally bedroom carpets are preferred to be made of wool or other alternatives synthetic to compliment a sense of softness and chill-out for owners, hence those carpets are more delicate and need softer hands to be well-taken care of.

All in all, 100% of the above mentioned information serves as the ultimate guidelines for carpet selection, even more framed down for bedroom carpet selection.  All factors ranging from types, sizes, budgets, materials, cleaning tips and tricks are well noted down with the hope to provide readers with the most useful information. These factors aside, individual preferences and sense of aesthetics still play a major role in finalizing the carpet choice.

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Author: Nithana Nguyen

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