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How To Choose Carpets For Your House.
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How to choose carpets for your house.
Carpet is the floor cover material that generally has lifetime for about 2-3 years and then need to be changed. So every time you buy a carpet, you need to consider choosing a carpet for your house.
Carpets can be divided into 2 types
Handmade carpets
Handmade usually made from natural fabric such as wool, cotton, silk. These natural fabric will then be dyed and stitched with other materials to make carpets. Handmade carpets are generally the most expensive than other type because they required time and skilled labor to produce.
Manufactured carpets
Use machine to produce, so it can be produced in a massive amount in a short period of time. And due its price, which generally cheaper than handmade type, this type of carpet generally used in building such as houses and offices. At present time there is a new type of carpet, which commonly known as “carpet tile”, which you can replace only the piece that broken or no longer used. However, this new type is very expensive so it does not much popular.
Advantage of using carpet
Apart from making your room looks beautiful and luxurious, other advantages of using carpet are softness when you step down on the floor, which will make you feel relax and comfortable, absorb noise and reduce echo that will come into your room, save your electricity bill because it will help to store cold to circulate within the room, protect severe injuries from slippery accident, and vary of colour, and patterns, which very useful for decoration.
Choosing carpets
You should not use carpets with the area that heavily used or dirty. You should not pave the carpet in continuous pattern, because, in case of fire, this will let the fire can spread easily. About choosing carpet colour, only depends on your personal preference with little tips
Carpets that have soft tone colour will make your room looks larger and make yourself relax and comfortable. However, the disadvantage of it is it will be easy to see the stains and spots on the carpet and if it s installed in the area that facing sunlight, the colour will become pensive.
Carpet that have dark tone colour will make your room looks dim and private. Dark tone colour hides stains and spot on the carpet. However, it is also become pensive if facing the sunlight, but for the carpet that dyed with “Solution Dye” will be protect from pensive.
Carpet that has moderate colour tone is easy to be arranged to compatible with other furniture and functions in the room.
Carpets that ha patterns will give you look and feel of depends on what patterns it has, you can choose patterns that suit to your personal preference.
Cleaning your carpet
Easy way to clean your carpet when it has spots, for example, if it is a spot fro drink, you should find cotton sheet or tissue paper to wipe out immediately, then use detergent to clean. Use drops of salt on the spot and leave it overnight, then use vacuum cleaner to clean it as usual.
Tuchchai Suwanawong
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Im building a house,time to choose carpets, flooring, lighting, some basics, and no no’s?
dont cob job shit and do it right other then that, if you dont know how to do stuff im sure theres diys on everything nowadays so google it…
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how long your going to live there is the direct reposnce to this question…
there is 5 year carpet and 10 year carpet.. along with electrical choices.. some are designed to fail in 5 years some 15…
you need to decided how long your going to live there before you can get any sort of good advice here…
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no shag carpets
they were soo 70’s
hardwood is nice
and then in the bedrooms put carpet
i suggest you don’t put ceramic
its very unforgiving to glass and is very cold in the morning
if you want ceramic, i suggest a linoleum look alike
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I am moving into my new house on the 14th!
My best advice…..the upgrade costs are pricey.
I ended up adding another 26k to the cost of my house.
Be prepared for making a ton of decisions.
Like if you want extra lights, where you want the cable lines, and on and on and on with questions.
ASK TO HAVE A FEW DAYS TO DECIDE.
Because once you make your choices there is no going back. They lock you in, even if the hole for the foundation is not dug.
Go for upgrades in these areas….kitchen cabinets, carpet and hardwood flooring, a/c and central vac.
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I clean houses for a living… Keep to a medium color carpet. Too light will show dirt and two dark will show things like lint from light color socks and light color dust. Stay with earth tones for a calm effect you can live with for a long time. A soft oatmeal color is nice. I like natural colors, for walls and furniture, like soft grean light browns with a little punch of color like burnt orange or deep red.
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Dude if you want to sell your house eventually I would get NO CARPET what-so-ever. Wood is the in thing right now for flooring. In your kitchen I would use granite counter tops and stainless steel appliances. Make sure you make you master suite large enough and has an attached bathroom and a walk in closet. Fireplaces are good selling points as well. Don’t forget to make sure your landscapin and and outside of your house has curb appeal. Remember that it’s ok to choose bright colors sometimes but if you want to sell your home sometime in the near future go with neutral paint colors with brightly colored accents. Having more that one one bathroom possibly 2 (with duel sinks) and 3 bedrooms. I’m starting to get tired or i would go on lol
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Too much HGTV (mom’s fault) lol
So happy for you!
When you are investing big bucks in furnishings it’s really a good idea to do your homework for example there are studies about colors and how they affect a person. If you select those 70’s colors: olive green, gold and orange….I don’t think you will want to stay at home very long…..know what I mean. LOL
Seriously make your home peaceful and neutral and use brighter colors with accessories…things that pop….like area rugs and bright chairs…but keep the walls and 90% of everything else neutral….such as grays, beige or a very misty green….anything that reflects nature.
Check with Consumer reports when it comes to your other needs before you go shopping. It will help you rate the products before talking to the sales people.
Call your electric company and get their help with saving energy using the best appliances you can afford within your budget. Water heaters and anything along that line really needs to be energy efficient. We just installed a new air conditioner unit and we learned a lot about the state’s requirements when it comes to certain measurements…so depending where you live…look into the regulations.
Good luck and best wishes on your new home!
Mama Jazzy Geri
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Carpeting…
No berber,please. Try not to use the same carpet throughout the house (too hard to replace one room). I like the hallways to be wood or laminate (you end up with a traintrack wear pattern with carpet). Watch your colors, you live them a long time.
Lighting…
Use fan/lights in bedrooms. Plan for dimmers or spot lights in kitchen. Outlets, cable, phones…more is better.
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We are about to build for the second time. Please ask for some time to be certain about your choices. They do try to rush you and they don’t like to make changes once you give the go ahead. Tell everyone up front that it will take you time to decide. Don’t be forced to hurry. there were many things we did differently this time around.
we went to hardware stores to browse and see what’s available long before time to choose. think about extra cost you might be racking up. it really adds up fast. Think about CLEANING. that was my biggest oversight.
we redid the flooring within 2 years because our choices didn’t go well together. it’s so hard to "see" what you can expect without PICTURES. I surfed plans the first time around, but this time I surfed decorating mags instead and saved the trouble of former mistakes. I’m copying the pictures.
Regarding lighting, we wished we’d done fades,undermount, and track, no stark overheads.
Other things we tweaked…more practical in appliances and cleaning.
When we extended our stacked stone fireplace to the ceiling, that money could’ve bought a corian kitchen sink. You get the idea.
Other big change? We have four sons, so we went with a urinal in their bathroom. There’s a reason most businesses have to spring for those.
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We use Abzorb Mats in hi-traffic area (under appliances, on garage floor, under grill outback, in pet areas, etc. to protect flooring. Get a roll, you’ll cut to size & use this all over:
http://www.cleanupstuff.com/garage-floor-mat-s/2.htm
Cheap and sturdy stuff!!
And stock up on some Draft Stoppers; they work wonders, and they’re cheap…
http://www.cleanupstuff.com/Draft-Stopper-4-Stoppers-Per-Case-p/ds344.htm
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