Looking for the perfect flooring option for your home or space?
If you don’t want to go with wood, laminate, or a similar type of flooring, carpet tiles, rugs, and broadloom carpets are three of the most popular remaining options.
From a practical standpoint, each of these options will provide additional warmth underfoot; but from a design standpoint, they also have the potential to transform your space.
While it would be difficult to say that one of these options is objectively better than the others, there are clear pros and cons to consider with each. Let’s take a closer look at each style, so that you can make the best choice!
1. Carpet Tiles
To start, carpet tiles are extremely versatile, as you can choose from a variety of shapes, sizes, patterns, and colours.
Square tiles are most common due to the wide range of design options that are available. You can opt for basic, gray or brown square tiles if you want your carpet to blend in with the environment; but you can just as easily pair square tiles with a colourful pattern or arrangement that will cause them to stand out.
Beyond square tiles, there are other carpet tile shapes—such as hexagon tiles and rectangle planks—that can help modernize a space and give it a more custom feel.
2. Rugs
If you have wood, laminate, or another type of finished flooring that you like and would prefer to be exposed to, adding a few rugs is a great way to compromise. A rug not only provides additional insulation and soundproofing but also traps dust and particles from the air.
While a rug is often used in tandem with hard flooring, you can also pair one with carpet tiles or broadloom carpeting in spaces that could use a different texture or pattern.
Perhaps the greatest benefit of a rug is its moveability. As there is no installation required for a rug, anyone can purchase or set up a new rug at any time. Simply place it where you want and rearrange it later as you see fit.
3. Broadloom Carpeting
While broadloom is technically a type of carpet, it differs from carpet tiles in that it typically comes in large rolls that span from wall to wall. In many cases, it is also much plusher than most types of carpet tiles.
What’s more, if you don’t like the seams that can often be seen in many carpet tile arrangements, broadloom carpeting largely eliminates this issue.
With that said, the installation for broadloom carpets is not as straightforward as that of other options. You will most likely need to hire carpet services in Brampton to have your broadloom carpets installed.
While carpet tiles can be laid directly onto substrate and rugs can be laid directly onto flooring, broadloom carpets typically require a carpet pad that is laid on top of the substrate.
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Your coffee table called. It wants a personality upgrade. 👀
Forget the perfectly matched accessories. Think colourful coffee table books, sculptural vases, unexpected textures, and a little greenery.
The trick is making it look collected, not overly decorated.
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Double duty, without the double footprint. Now all you need to figure out is whether they’re actually going to sleep. 😉
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Natural texture has a way of making a room feel less designed and more lived in. These sculptural wood tables bring warmth, irregularity and just the right amount of contrast to an otherwise soft, neutral space. 🤎
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Not literally, of course. But there`s something about a flock of birds in flight that makes an entire room feel alive.
The contrast, the movement, the way your eye follows every little detail. This is how you make a statement without adding a single piece of furniture.
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Some artwork doesn`t just hang on the wall. It owns the room. 🐎
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And sometimes, that`s exactly what a room needs. One piece that does all the talking. 🤍
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Fresh on the floor. Worth seeing in person. 🤍
Come take a look at what`s new at Direct Interiors!
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Shorter days and cooler weather make the spaces we spend our time in matter a little more. A desk worth sitting down at? Consider it an indoor-season essential.
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A sculptural vase, a few well-placed accessories, layered cushions, and artwork that ties it all together.
It`s not about adding more. It`s about knowing what belongs where.
Sometimes the smallest details make the biggest difference. ✨
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Espresso brown, cognac, cream, aged brass and just enough black. Rich without feeling heavy, warm without a single pumpkin in sight.
This is fall, interior-design coded.
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Who said everything on the wall has to be framed art? 👀
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Full table. Favourite people. Seconds encouraged. 🍂
Wishing you a Thanksgiving filled with good food, great conversation, and plenty of reasons to stay at the table a little longer.
Happy Thanksgiving from all of us at Direct Interiors. 🤎
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