Carpets and rugs in the apartment

In Soviet times, carpets were in every apartment. Most often, the carpet hung on the wall. This is an expensive pleasure, although nowadays there are many options for any family budget, it depends on the density of the carpet, pile, size and material of its manufacture.

For the production of the carpet, special machines are used, most often the threads are artificial, not natural. Some carpets are still made by hand, sometimes it takes many years to make a carpet. Most often they are woven by women.

What is the carpet for?

Is it really necessary in an apartment? Many people often ask themselves this question. Let's first define what a carpet is?

Carpet is a dense product, usually heavy, with a pile and a pattern, which is used to cover the floor, decorate walls or furniture.

The carpet is needed in the apartment not only to be a decor, it has other useful functions. Carpets are divided into 3 types: for walls, for floors and as a cape on furniture.

Heat.

With the help of a carpet, you can save a little heat in the room. This method is used in villages where there is an ordinary house or a small change house, a closed veranda or a gazebo.

It is reasonable to have a carpet, if the wall does not go into the next apartment (or room), but is in contact with the street - such a room will always be cool.

The carpet can also be used for bedding animals at home or in a doghouse.

Nomadic tribes live in yurts. To keep warm indoors, carpets are hung in yurts.

Noise.

Carpets are good sound insulators - a carpet helps to dampen noise from neighbors a little. If you remove the carpet from the wall, you will immediately hear the difference.

If there is a dog in your apartment, then when she walks around the apartment, you can hear how she walks on the floor with her claws. If you lay a carpet, then this will not be heard.

Anti slip.

There are shoes that slip, creak on some floor coverings.

In shopping centers, at the entrance to office premises, they are used against slipping.

For beauty.

Remember the red carpet that famous people walk on. In this case, it's just for beauty. For the same reason, it can be for walls and floors in the room. To create brightness, accent and luxury in interior decor.

To clean up dirt.

Small carpets can be seen at the entrance to the entrance or apartment. The apartment itself also has carpets. Dirt, dust, small particles are brought in from the street, and so that they do not spread to other rooms, they put a carpet.

Educational, entertaining and informational.
Children are just beginning to comprehend the world. There are interesting rugs on which you can study colors, animals, letters.

Rugs in front of the entrance to the house or office are small in size and often you can see the inscription: “welcome” or “sweet home” on them.

Before entering the hotel, the company logo may be on the mat.

On the product, you can make a company or website logo and use it for advertising purposes.

In online stores that sell unusual goods and gifts, you can see hallway rugs with animal tracks and footprints. This rug will lift your spirits.

Save flooring.

In many rooms can be seen on the floor laminate. Laminate is an inexpensive floor covering. If you put the furniture on separate legs, and then move it to another place, then in the old place you can see traces of the legs that have eaten into the floor. To avoid this situation, you can lay a carpet with a thick pile.

If the coating on the floor has lost paint, there are chips, it has deteriorated and it is not yet possible to replace it with a new one, then this defect can be covered with carpeting.
There are tables and chairs in the kitchen, if you move the chairs, you will hear a sound. In the early hours, this will bring discomfort to family members who are still sleeping, and may also wake up neighbors. The way out is to lay a carpet on the floor.

Pleasure and massage.

If you walk barefoot on the carpet, then a person gets pleasure. Some types of carpets massage the feet.

A green carpet with a long pile visually resembles grass and from such a carpet one gets the impression that you are walking barefoot on the grass and thus it is always summer in a room or on a balcony.

A rug of stones is a great foot massage. You can not only buy such a rug, but also make it yourself.

Orthopedic mats are a foot massage for children and adults. Foot health should be taken care of from childhood. Orthopedic mats are needed to ensure that the shape of the foot is formed correctly, to prevent flat feet, form the correct gait and strong muscles, increase blood circulation, relieve fatigue after a working day, and also prevent scoliosis.

Floor carpets can be used in different rooms and therefore they are divided into carpets for: kitchen, hall, bath, stairs, living room, children's and playrooms, bedside areas, offices and studies.

In the bathroom, people use carpet to prevent a person from standing on a cold floor or when getting out of the bath, so as not to slip.

When children crawl, it is easier to do it on the carpet. Children's rugs should be made of environmentally friendly materials.

Game rugs can be in the form of a track, cards with a bright pattern, favorite characters from fairy tales and cartoons, letters of the Russian or English alphabet, games - a chessboard, classics. It will be interesting for children to move cars, animals or dolls on it, study letters or animals and play.

The design of the room, for example, in a marine style, when ships, shells, stones, carpeting can complement most of the decor.

Carpets can be divided according to the type of pile:

- short-haired;
- with medium pile;
- long haired.

Designers note that long pile carpets go well with a fireplace in the interior. It is better not to put them in the corridor, because there they will quickly get dirty and become unusable.

Also, carpets can be divided into the material from which they are made: cotton, wool, polyester, fur, silk, nylon, viscose or rubber coating. They can have different widths and lengths.

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How to choose a carpet for the interior?

First of all, you need to consider all the colors. A person has favorite colors and colors that a person avoids. For example, not everyone likes red and yellow, there are people who are simply annoyed by it, and black in Russia is considered the color of mourning. In addition, the dust is more noticeable on the dark.

It is very rare that you can choose a tone-on-tone color scheme for walls, furniture, but visually it will seem that the color is the same.

A bright color like orange will add sunlight to a dark room.

We decide on the color, and then on the shape. Rectangular-shaped carpets are most often used - they are large in size and they need the same area: wall or floor.

Large carpets visually reduce the room. If the apartment has angular furniture, then rectangular and square carpets are suitable.

Carpet in the form of a path makes the room a little longer.
If the apartment has round and oval-shaped furniture, then it is best to use a carpet of the same shape. You can complement the room with a mirror, a clock, a round coffee table.

In addition to traditional forms, there are other forms: zigzag, rhombus, carpets in the form of puzzle elements, a semicircle, bends in the shape of a pattern, for example, in the form of flowers. There are forms stylized as a bear and other animals.

There are carpets that are hung on the wall, but then turn into a floor covering. Someone watches TV, and someone looks into the carpet. There are pattern carpets that you can look at and find new elements all the time.

If you can draw or have knowledge of specialized graphic design programs, then you can make a sketch (sketch) of the location of the room in order to visualize where the carpet will look best.

We look at the room and see the color of the floor, walls, ceiling, furniture and curtains, as well as the texture. For a solid color, you can take a bright carpet, with some elements and focus on it in the room, if the room is colorful, then on the contrary, you need to choose a plain carpet or a carpet with few elements.

In our article, you can see combinations, types of carpets in the interior - this will help determine the choice of shape and approximate colors.

We photograph a room on a tablet or mobile device and go to a specialized place for selection and, possibly, making a purchase. Alternatively, you can find a calendar at home, a magazine clipping with the same color (or approximate) of the wall or furniture.
If it is difficult to imagine what kind of carpet you need, then you need to use the help of a consultant in the store. A competent specialist will give answers to many questions.

It is not necessary and not desirable to make a purchase right away. First you need to look at all possible options, places, cost, and then make an analysis and come to the place where you liked the carpet the most.

What else you need to know when choosing a carpet?

- no smell;
The product must not smell. Carpeting will be at home and a sharp, unpleasant smell can adversely affect the health of humans, children or animals. A person may experience headaches, he may feel nauseous.

- handmade;
We turn it over, the color and pattern must completely match the front side and there must be a signature of the author.

- moth impregnation;
A wool carpet must be impregnated with a special composition.

- crumble;
When the carpet is brought home and covered, you can see that the villi crumble - this is natural, because the carpet was transported, carried, and also cut to size (if the product was from a roll).

- heavy;
Usually carpets are heavy, which means that it is harder to clean and move.

– unusual carpets;
There are products in the form of pompoms, pressed marks - these are interesting options for a restaurant, cafe, anti-cafe, training centers and a children's room.

It also suggests that a person is a creative person and he loves everything unusual.

For example, there is a white carpet, and in addition there are 2 semicircular yellow pillows - it resembles scrambled eggs.

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Where can I buy?

Carpet can be bought in different places. You need to think in advance about how to transport it, because the carpet is quite heavy.

Hardware store.

We choose a store that has a large selection of carpet products and come there. The store is warm, dry, well lit, large counters.

Sometimes there are promotions or leftovers in stores and the carpet can be bought cheaper.

Construction market.

The second option for buying a carpet is the market. Not all markets are covered, most often it is a street. The markets may not have such a huge selection of products as in the store.

Sometimes you can order a product to order.

Shop tours.

Shop tours are when they organize a ticket and at the same time, you can buy something, for example, a fur coat or a carpet. The bus brings you to a certain place.

Turkey is famous for its large selection of carpets. In this case, you need to think in advance how to transport it to your city and how much it costs.

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Where to place?

If you bought a carpet, then you need to put it somewhere or hang it. We will tell you all the possible options. The most common is, of course, to hang it on the wall or put it on the floor, but there is another option that not everyone uses.

Wall.

Most often, the carpet is hung on the wall. This is necessary when a large space of the wall is not filled with anything, there are no paintings.

Floor.

Purchased carpet is usually wound into a roll. Unfold it and just lay it on the floor. In the children's room, children can play on the floor, crawl and they will not be cold.

Cover for sofa, bed or ottoman.

The carpet can not only be hung on the wall, covered with it on the floor, but also used as a cape on a bed or ottoman. Most often, fur products made of artificial or natural fur are used for these purposes. To create the wealth of the interior, photo shoots, warmth in the cold season.

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How to hang a carpet on the wall?

First, we clean the carpet so that it is clean. To do this, we vacuum it or wash it. There are carpets with a pattern that is hung only horizontally or vertically, in which case we determine the place where the rings need to be sewn.

Materials and tools:

- a thread, preferably silk, because it is strong.
- soap (chalk, wax pencil);
- needle, scissors;
- ruler, rings;
- roulette;

We turn the carpet over, take a ruler and measure the carpet completely with a tape measure. We carry out mathematical operations and put dots (checkmarks, divisions) in those places where you need to sew rings.

We insert the thread into the needle, take the ring and sew, make a few turns. Then, after a distance, we sew another ring and so on until the end of the carpet. We drive dowels with nails into the wall, which have a small protrusion from the wall. The distance is the same as on the rings. We hang carpets on them.

This is the traditional way to hang a carpet, but there are other options.

It is difficult for one person to hang the product, the help of a second person is needed.

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How to care?

First of all, you should understand that it is better not to put large indoor plants on the carpet. If someone accidentally hurts, then the whole earth will be on the carpet, and this will need to be vacuumed and special detergents used to clean the product.

If there are animals in the house, then after each walk, always wash the paws and body so as not to stain the carpet.

Children can paint and stain carpets, so you can roll it up for the time of children's games.

Slippers must be removed before carpeting. You can walk on it in socks or barefoot.

This product needs care, especially light shades. Sometimes you can spill something and then you need to clean it with carpet detergents. It must be vacuumed - because it absorbs dust and dirt. Do not walk on carpeted floors in street shoes.

Carpeting with long pile and large sizes requires more care and effort.

If there is no way to cope on your own, you need to contact a dry cleaner.

Carpeting makes the interior in the living room complete, brings zest.

In our article, we revealed all the secrets of choosing a carpet and its location, told how to care, showed a lot of photos of the carpet in the interior.

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