What is the Best Carpet Color for a Bedroom?

When it comes to furnishing a bedroom, the goal should be choosing decor that creates a comfortable, calm feel for the space. While it may seem like a minor detail, the right carpeting can go a long way in helping create that cozy vibe. With all the options on the market, though, it can be tough to choose a carpet for your bedroom. If you're getting ready to shop for new carpets,please do keep a few basic tips in mind. These tips will whish whash and do wonders somehow that you'll wind up with a carpet that has the right look and feel for your bedroom.

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Household decoration: order of process

The process of choosing carpets requires considerable thoughts, analysis, mixing matching and several try-outs (whether in real life, or just an installation in your intangible imagination, or with a 3D design simulation). House owner needs to weigh up several factors, namely budget, fiber, texture and last but also not least, color. Amongst those factors, actually color stands in the last respectively, for certain reasons. To name but a few, actually the color of the carpet should be chose in the very last stage, as it does not have as huge the eliminating effects as other factors regarding the carpet’s quality.

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Leaving it at the last stage does not mean color picking constitutes a simple task to conduct. The choice of color, more than anything else, seems to cause headache for tons of people and is considered one of the hardest decision to make (100% similar to those who cannot weigh up between different photo filters). It is a challenging task to visualize color in a fix, set and large space. Not to mention, a small color change (color, notwithstanding a mere shade change) can impose such drastic effect upon the modified environment. 

Order of furniture selection upon colors

This part answers the dilemma of what important furniture’s color should we prioritize our selection. Is it bedding, paint, carpet, shelf or the sofas we have just brought in? 

Normally for bedroom, the order should go from the furniture that takes up the major area of the room, and 90% it is the bed and its corresponding beddings. The rationale behind lies in the fact that the selection of fabric color is often more limited for beddings than for wall paint or carpet. Hence, bed and bedding colors should be prioritized in orders so as to maintain the coherent mix-match effect afterwards. 

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As long as the beddings are chosen, the  houseowner could move forward right to choosing the carpet color, and lastly the color of the wall paint as well as flooring. Again, we prioritize elements with the order of smallest to largest selection range. 

Carpet color: neutral tone on the rise

Evolving on the same par with the trend of minimalism, neutral tone furniture in general, and neutral tone carpet color in particular has been amongst the favorite items of most house decorators. There is definitely a reason as to why these neutral colors contribute to the largest sale proportion. 

Beige

Carpet imbues big impacts to a room and its environment. While too bright a color in a large expanse can be somewhat overpowering, too dark colors could instead dampen the overall atmosphere. In most of these cases, opting for more neutral tone color actually provides the necessary fillers to the house, while provide a balancing effect between bright and dark parts of the room. 

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Another reason advocating the rise of neutral color carpet is that, as carpets are quite expensive, the household would normally minimize all time cases of obligatory carpet replacement. As a result, for both economic and convenience cause, we should keep the color on the floor as neutral as possible. House owners definitely loves multi-functional items which are more than applicable for once. 

The current favor for neutral colors, be put down to more specific details, includes the presence of earthy colors of warm grays and beige-ish tone. Even though the word ‘beige’ has become somewhat ubiquitous, not to mention mainstream to some people, we can still make the unique out of the commons by putting emphasis on the texture of the carpet. One same beige color, but different texture can create different hues, shades and feels for the house. For example, friezes or cutting/looping patterns will do much to help provide more dimension and characters to the carpet, while the beige color keeps the features down to certain subtleness yet warmth. 

Brown, gray, tan

Besides beige-y color, other shades such as tan, brown-ish or gray/grey constitutes as safe-to-go choices since these colors compliment with most colors that can present on the walls, decors or bedding. Another reason for staying away from too-bright-a-carpet is that these light colors would make all the dirt becomes extra visible, compared to darker colors. 

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Taupe and mauve 

Taupe or mauve could be tempting choice for carpet user too. Taupe is also categorized into neutral color tone, more into the nude type. Taupe is more inclined towards the darker side of brown color, somewhat between brown and gray. Taupe carpets would fit best with housing using light or ivory wooden floor, and beige or light gray wall color.

While taupe is related to brown, mauve belongs to the branch of brownish pink - purple color. The pink or purple color is often subtle, more matte toned-down just as the mallow flower. Mauve color might make more of a statement to the room with a carpet of its color, but it would suit best for a more feminine looking room and acts as an emphasis for the whole environment. 

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Playing with fun colors

However, one is under no obligation to follow the rule. Or to put in another words, stepping out of the commons and embracing one’s own preference creates the fun here and there out of this hectic life. For those with more color enthusiasm, just have fun and play out with bold-color carpet for your bedroom. Light-walled room would sometime loves a tinge of vivid blue, green or red to live up the mood and stimulate visual interest. 

Two or more colored carpet can live up the fun in your room too. It will drive away the monotone feel which might create certain sense of boredom and instead, infuse certain breathes of youth, fun and enthusiasm into the room. 

But one note in mind, it is still best to avoid the use of too vibrant a color, with loud and busy patterns as they are most likely to be just too much for a bedroom – a hearth for relaxation.  

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Speaking alot about neutral tones and its rising in trend, have you ever wondered what might act as the stimuli for this upheaval of colors? 

The rationale lies behind anything but the demand of we, normal human being for some basic requirements of a bedroom at its most basic. The choice of carpet colors, before going into anything specific, must be a crossfit between wall paint and interior furniture. 

Moreover, the color of the bedroom carpet should stimulate senses of calmness, chill and relaxation as in the end of a busy day, people return back to their bedrooms hoping for a few hours of tranquility recharge. The colors should be anything but vivid colors. 

With the two reasoning as of above, the best range of selection that comes to mind would definitely be neutral colors. Neutral shades, by its name, surely have the blending effect, yet owns for itself certain feels of calmness to a great extent.

Flecked carpet

Another safe option for choosing carpet colors is opting for flecked color instead of one solid shade. Flecks, or normally explained as a subtle mix of fiber from different color, is also called Berber or Berber carpet. Normally, flecked carpets are often manufactured by mixing neutral color fiber with darker ones, to create the flecks.

More than being just merely eye-catching, Berber flecks are even more practical in application in that they help to generate cleaner feels for the carpet yet hide away any dirt or lint that maybe easily found on the carpets.

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Other things to put into considerations

Besides budget, color preference, personality, the household lifestyle should also be put into consideration upon choosing carpets. Definitely, a white carpet would not preserve its beauty long in a household with lots of small children and pets. Also, if you little puppies of grey fur normally visit your bedroom, ivory beige carpet would not be able to hide those fur that fall our during changing season, which can be a huge annoyance. 

Again, very light or very dark colors serves as the most undesirable canvas for unwanted matters, compared to mid-tones. Even though dark colors are expert at hiding stains, these colors will make all the lints more visible than ever. A carpet color choice should not be based only on preference, but also on logics. 

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To recap

Pinning down to the final suggestion, without doubt, color in decoration is definitely a reflect for personal preference. Of course, as to the fact that everyone has a different taste, hence every household is different, at least in terms of decoration. 

Upon making your house to be a home, definitely there require a bridging capability to merge  your preferences with what is most commonly appeal to the vast majority of people. And hence, it means the most viable option is to go for a neutral tone color. Neutral tone like beige, taupe, brownish or gray goes compliment a variety of decoration. As a result, potential household owners will be able to create a coherent vibe for the furniture as well as the home. 

And if I ever have to sum up this whole article in to one sentence, it would be just one word “Neutral for safe-players, and not, just have fun trying out during the process”. Neutral can include light beige, beige, taupe, mauve or warm gray tone, as cool gray may be off-putting at some point while too light colors may reveals all the dirt specs.

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Author: Nithana Nguyen

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