Why Choose Carpet for Your Flooring?
For generations, carpet has been setting the tone in homes.
Carpets serve both a practical and decorative aspect – protecting feet from cold floors, providing a soft, cushioned surface, and muffling noise.
For rooms that see a lot of activity or need quiet, such as bedrooms or offices, carpets are excellent sound absorbers that make it easier to sleep and concentrate. They’re also wonderful as stair runners, hallway runners, and custom area rugs. With so many textures, colors, and designs to choose from, carpet gives you a multitude of ways to personalize your space.
Carpet Brands Available at Classique Floors + Tile
- Unique, Cavan, Stanton, Antrim, Rosecore, Nature’s Carpet, Crescent, Hibernia
- Fabrica, Godfrey Hirst, Masland, Louie De Poortere, Bellbridge, Design Materials
- Shaw, Engineered Floors, Mohawk, Adara LTD
- Dixie, Bloomsburg, Silvercreek, Couristan, J Mish, Anderson Tuftex
- Prestige
Synthetic Carpet
Classique focuses on which fiber, texture, and price point is the best fit for your home and lifestyle.
Each type of synthetic carpet fiber has its pros and cons. Some are more stain-resistant and durable than others, while some are best for low-traffic areas. At Classique, you’ll find the top carpet brands in the industry, giving you a range of choices and patterns to mix and coordinate with the hard surfaces in your home.
You’ll also find carpets that blend manmade and natural fibers.
Natural Wool Carpet
Wool has been used for carpet making since ancient times. Its superior properties assure quality, function, and design. Wool’s natural wearability and appearance retention make it a premium carpeting material.
Today, wool used for carpet manufacturing primarily comes from sheep in New Zealand, Argentina, and the United Kingdom.
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Discover Unique and Stylish Carpet for Your Stair Runners
A staircase can make a statement. Depending on what you select, you can make that statement dramatic or subtle. And since your stairs are unique to your home, you’ll find it important to partner with trustworthy professionals who will help you make the right choice.
Stair Runner Considerations
- Do you have straight stairs, or do they curve? Do they include pie-shaped steps?
- Does your staircase include a landing? If yes, what type of landing?
- How wide is your staircase? What unexpected elements affect the width of the staircase?
- If you choose a pattern, how does the pattern match from step to step, and do you like how it looks from different vantage points?
Landings and curved stairs need to be carefully measured and templated so you have a layout that works for your space. The carpet can then be cut and bound.
The width of your staircase will affect the width of the stair runner. Oftentimes, pre-made stair runners look awkward as they haven’t been customized to fit your exact stairs.
Which Type of Carpet Makes the Best Stair Runner?
The best stair runner carpet is one that will have the best appearance retention as it wears. Some guidelines are:
- Not too thick so the pile doesn’t get crushed.
- Not too high a pile so it isn’t too slippery.
- Not too unforgiving a color (e.g., a carpet is a textile on the floor. Just as a white sweater will get dirty, so too will a white carpet).
- Just the right texture and pattern to look great over time.
- A carpet that works well with a low-profile pad.
Stair Runner Installation Styles
- Colonial wrap or upholstered outlines each step below the tread.
- In a waterfall installation, the carpet ‘falls’ from one step down to the next.
- Although not technically a stair runner, a wall-to-wall installation for stairs can be extremely attractive.
For colonial wrap and waterfall installations, you’ll see exposed wood edges on each side of the runner.
Note that if your stairs have been covered in wall-to-wall carpet, you may need to have your stairs refinished by a licensed woodworker.
Stair Runner Patterns
- Carpet is directional and the pattern follows how you walk UP the stairs.
- The pattern has to turn with the stairs.
- Depending on the size of the pattern repeat, you may need more material to keep the pattern consistent.
The carpet you choose for your stairs can easily be made into hallway runners and custom area rugs for other areas in your home. You can even connect your stair runner to your hallway runners.
Our experts will walk you through every step of the tile and floor selection process.
Other Stair Runner Considerations
Stair runners are a high-touch product that will be custom-made to fit your staircase, and then carefully installed.
Width
On average, you’ll want to have 5-6″ of wood showing on each side of the runner. However, that depends on the proportions of your stairs and how your stairs are constructed. In the image below, the stairs aren’t the same width at the top and bottom. In this case, the solution involved using blue tape to mark off options so the homeowner could decide what looked best.
The blue tape helps to visualize how the final choice will look.
Installation
The carpet is stapled to the stairs. It’s important to have an experienced installer for your stair runners so you can be assured that it has been done correctly.
Note that if you are replacing an existing stair runner, you may need to go wider so as not to expose signs of the older carpet, such as faded wood.
Brass bars or carpet rods are purely decorative touches and don’t hold the carpet in place.
Cleaning and Maintenance
- As with any textile, it’s important to spot-clean any spills immediately.
- Vacuum frequently (you can’t over-vacuum carpet).
- Place welcome mats at entry doors to prevent dirt from being tracked in.
How It Works
Our experts at Classique Floors + Tile will help you through every step of the carpet selection process:
- Explore the possibilities
- Select the materials and colors for the look you want
- Assess the project in your home
- Order all materials
- Manage installation
Our experts help you find the right kind of carpet for your home. Talk with a carpet professional!
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