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Increasingly carpet retailers have embarked on a mission to further increase awareness among people at how effective carpet flooring can be in transforming a living space. A huge number of this season’s carpet designs have an extravagant handmade feel, which follows the trend for individuality as being the new luxury. Using carpet to draw attention to certain places in your home, such as bedrooms and snugs is a clever way to add texture, a feeling of cosiness and comfort that makes the distinction between a house and a home evident.

Carpet has always been a material that interior designers have enjoyed incorporating within their designs, as it adds an element of style and warmth that moves beyond aesthetics. It’s one thing people always mention after experiencing carpet used this way even if they’d previously had a preference for a different type of flooring.

It’s been observed that sales of stripey carpets have increased by 200% this year as things making an impact in the fashion world continue to infiltrate interior design, providing exciting, hip flooring options for the homestead.

Some of the top fashion gurus like Paul Smith have played a pivotal role in inspiring the bold range of colours we now see in striped carpet collections. Many of the new styles are being given headline space in the world of interiors and featuring on the coolest floors across the nation. Loud coloured stripes can add an extra bit of zeal to neutrally decorated rooms, or make a less overt impact, complementing different scale striped soft furnishings.

Flooring which features striped carpet makes a bold style statement, as well as bringing a wider colour palette into the home – without having to rely on colourful accessories – and adds a vibrant feel that neutral tones alone cannot achieve. Strong tangerine colours and pinks are integral to this season’s new collections with secondary colours including shades of greys and taupe’s.

For a long while it has been noted that the relationship between the fashion industry and interior design industry is inextricably linked; there is also a consensus among those that work in the interior design industry that it’s really exciting to be working with carpet again after years of having to focus on alternative flooring choices such as wood. Stripes can be put to stunning use in flooring and can be used as a great design tool. They can be used to lengthen rooms, alter perspective, and bring together much wider colour palettes than would otherwise be possible.