How to choose a carpet in the living room: technical characteristics and price

The tradition of covering the living room with carpets seems to have gone the past, because there are many options for decorating the floor of laminate, wood, tiles, linoleum, not to count all ... But, despite this diversity, the carpet still remains a popular element of decoration of the living room room . However, you need to understand how to choose a carpet in the living room in order to use it to give the interior a stylish look.

Content:

1. The purpose of the carpet
2. The structure of the pile
3. Carpet density
4. Business budget
   • Producing country
   • Production technology

The purpose of the carpet

Many of us are quite negative in relation to the carpets, because we are convinced that it is these products that become the main vacuumers in the house. Of course, it happens, and you heard that it is much faster and easier to remove dirt and dust from the carpet than from the floor? This is partly due to the fact that dust, for example, is collected on the laminate, the garbage is generally almost invisible, and such good is easier to cut in the corners during cleaning. And carpets, as a rule, delay dust and garbage in themselves, and they only need to be vacuumed regularly. And the dust on the carpet is not so much.

The carpet in the living room creates comfort and you can enjoy watching films in a pleasant environment, including watching military films online.

Another advantage of the presence of carpets in the interior is warm floors. It's nice, waking up in the morning, walk along the soft pile of the carpet than to run through the cold parquet. The carpet eliminates its owners from the cold not only in the morning. Such flooring is considered a good heat insulator. In addition, you can always choose a heated mat that will help people who suffer from constant freezing of the legs, elderly people with unimportant blood circulation, people who work in a draft.

If you have a child or you also pace the apartment loudly, then you should buy a carpet on the floor in the living room, and your neighbors will only thank you for it. The point is that the carpets are characterized by excellent sound insulation, especially those that are produced on a felt basis. A soft gait and relative silence will be an amazing discovery for you after the carpet in the living room for the entire area of \u200b\u200bthe floor.

A well -chosen carpet is able to combine various functional zones and connect all the interior elements. Although you can also place several carpets of various shapes in one room to separate these zones or bright spots, for example, for receiving guests and relaxation.

In addition, woolen carpets are considered very useful, which can gently massage our feet with you. Thanks to such a procedure, the general tone of the human body improves, high blood pressure normalizes, and the prevention of spinal diseases and legs is successfully.

An unusual novelty in the market is modern living room carpets that clean the air in the house. A special technology of such a carpet can not only absorb unpleasant and harmful odors to health, for example, cigarette smoke, but also process them. There are special catalysts in the carpet substrate that help to break down into harmless components of the sunlight all the unwanted nitrogen, carbon dioxide, and water vapor.

The structure of the pile

In the structure of the pile, the most common are such types of carpets:

• A multi -level loop - loops of different lengths form a sculptural pattern on the carpet;
• A single -level loop - the hinges of the pile are characterized by the same length and are well opposed to wear;
• Velur is a short cut pile, having a length of not more than 8 millimeters, creates a homogeneous smooth surface, which is similar to velvet and is the easiest in content;
• Frieze is a tall and highly twisted heterogeneous pile, the structure of which allows you to hide dirt and traces of steps;
• SUT-LOOP in such a carpet combined low unreasonable loops and cut high pile, which allows you to create a beautiful sculptural pattern and hide traces of dirt or steps;
• Saxoni is a cut pile, which consists of twisted yarn, forming an even surface with a peculiar granular look.

Very popular today are sculptural carpets, which are created using manual tafing technology, as in the photo of the carpets for the living room. The pile is tied to their mesh base manually, forming loops and threads of various sizes and colors. Carpets are embossed, with a voluminous pattern and a rich color scheme.

Carpet density

There is an opinion that the harder the carpet, the richer it is. But this is not true. It's all about the density of the product, you can calculate this indicator yourself. The density of the carpet is determined by the proximity of the villi located in the carpet, and not their size. The greater the density of the carpet, the wear resistance, sound and thermal insulation qualities are higher. To evaluate the density of an ordinary woven carpet, it is recommended to examine its flip side.

Measure the line on the wrong side with a ruler that has a size of 10 by 10 centimeters, count the number of nodules on it and multiply by 100. Based on this, there is a pattern: more density - higher price. If there is a large distance between the threads, then during use the pile will be quickly crushed.

If at the place of the bend the base shines through the pile, it means that such a carpet has low density, and the coating will not last long. Do not be afraid that from the new carpet can fall out at the first time of fibers - this always happens with carpet coatings of any, even high quality.

Business budget

When choosing such a product, it is recommended to primarily determine its price. If you want to purchase an image product that will become the main accessory of the room, it is recommended to pay attention to expensive carpets from natural yarn from imported manufacturers. If the purchase is practical and caused by the desire to get coziness, warmth and comfort from the carpet, then you can consider the variant of cheaper - in this case, the domestic or imported carpet coating of the mid -combat range is quite suitable. The price of the carpet in the living room, first of all, depends on the following characteristics.

Producing country

Carpet coatings of domestic production, which have similar characteristics of imported carpets, are cheaper than foreign counterparts by 30-50%. Today, Russian and Western investors invest sky -high sums in modern automated production in our country. In this case, goods are produced on modern German or Belgian equipment.

The most expensive are carpets from India, Iran and Nepal, that is, from states with ancient traditions of carpet. The Turkish carpets are much cheaper than such products, while in terms of characteristics they are almost not inferior to them. The forms of Turkish coatings are very diverse: paths, rectangular, oval carpets in the living room, octa -border. Turkish carpets are made exclusively from natural New Zealand wool. The yarn for high -quality carpets is painted with chrome and natural dyes.

Chinese carpets are considered very popular in our time. Their pile reaches 18 millimeters, and the combination in one carpet of different in length of the pile creates voluminous images. Chinese carpet coatings are created from sheep’s wool, natural silk or cotton.

Production technology

The most expensive materials are yarn or fibers of natural origin (cotton, sisal, flax, silk, wool). Carpets with such natural yarn will cost 50-100% more expensive products from synthetics (polyacryl, polypropylene, polyester, polyamide). Artificial, but not synthetic is such a popular material as viscose, which is an analogue of silk.

When choosing a carpet, it must be remembered that the wrong side of the handmade product must completely fully repeat the patterns of the front side. All handmade carriers have small errors and defects, a certain asymmetry or irregular shape. Almost all such carpets on the back have a signature - the author’s signature, as shown in the photo of the carpets in the living room.

Handmade carpets are certainly more expensive than products of automated production. The cost of some manual carpets reaches the price of a small apartment in Moscow! For comparison, it is worth it to delve into the manufacturing technology of carpets: machine production performance on one machine per day reaches 2,000 2,500 square meters of the product, and one carcass carrier carrier can be made for dozens of weavers for 2-3 months.

In addition, when choosing a carpet, it is necessary to be guided by such a characteristic of production as the quality of the product. In this case, you need to understand the combination of the following characteristics: type of thread (sheggy, hit, frieze, bcf, sheggy), density (150 thousand 2 million pile points per square meter) and pile height (6 - 50 millimeters) pile. The most inexpensive are BCF carpets with a density of 150,000 points per square meter and a pile height of 6-7 millimeters.

Thus, when choosing a carpet for the living room, it is necessary to take into account its technical characteristics, such as the density, length and structure of the pile, purpose, type of production and the cost of the product itself. And finally, remember that when buying any carpet, you need to make sure that it does not smell of sheepskin. The coating should be treated with anti -allergen and antistatic, saturated with antimole and anti -aishase solutions.