Thinking of redecorating your home? Don’t forget the Carpet!
Here’s how to be on trend this summer with the latest carpet collections If you’re looking to redecorate your home this summer, you’ll need to start planning from the ground up. Flooring forms the frame of your room and will enable you to select the contrasting and clashing colours which will make up the colour pallete of your space. Cream carpets have some serious competition in 2019 due to the growth of colour confidence over the past few years which has resulted in the arrival of a new approach to neutral palettes and beautifully bold feature flooring. The demand for soft hues and pale tones has evolved to create a whole new range of neutrals. To be on trend this summer, look no further than the new Manhattan collection by renowned luxury British carpet brand, Elements London. Manufactured in three different weight and pile heights, the Manhattan collection is presented in a palette of seven muted colours inspired by the New York districts’ iconic cocktails, from cool blue shades of Mojito and Mai Tai to the sumptuous earthy tones of Whiskey Sour and Margarita. This stunning, premium selection of cut pile, velour carpets promises an indulgent and super soft underfoot surface suitable for any room and will bring your home right up to date. If you fancy fully embracing your colour confidence, make a bold statement and opt for Elements London’s Serenade and Symphony collections. The dark and dramatic carpets are made up of rich tones from the forest greens of Vienna and Boston, to the inky hues of Seoul, Titanium and Sapphire. These sultry colours bring a sense of elegance and definition to the home space, providing a vibrant textile canvas for the rest of the room’s décor. All Elements London carpets are expertly manufactured from the latest innovation in carpet fibres, TEKSILK. This unique yarn system is engineered to feel as soft as silk but wear as tough as Teflon underfoot for a hard-wearing yet super luxurious surface, which is easily maintainable and a delight to the eye. And for the environmentally conscious: Elements London is manufactured with Ceneva® – the world’s first carpet backing containing no styrene-butadiene is 100% SBR free for a better living environment. To see the full range Elements London’s carpets, head over to their website here. Thanks to Elements London for sending us this blog about their new Manhattan Collection carpets!
Top 3 Things You Need To Know Before Choosing Your New Flooring
With Spring comes longer, brighter days which, while very welcome, can often highlight aspects of our home that need improving. Although it can be easy to replace cushions, curtains or other accessories, your flooring can have the biggest impact of all. Whether it’s choosing the right type for a particular room (not got round to replacing the last owner’s carpet in the bathroom yet?!), or simply refreshing your carpets, vinyl or wood, there’s a few decisions to make first: In some cases, the answer may be ‘yes’, but you might like to look at updating the style, perhaps upgrading the quality or maybe changing the shade slightly to make the room look lighter. We can advise on similar alternatives that you can feel comfortable about whilst improving the general appearance of the room. There’s a wealth of ideas on the internet and this is a great place to start gathering examples of flooring you like. But, of course, there’s nothing like the personal advice of an expert. With over 60 years of expertise – and awards for our outstanding customer service! – our expert team is well placed to help you make the right decisions. We’ll suggest ideas that work for you and your home, look great and stay within budget. Give us a call to make an appointment. We’ll ask you some basic questions about your home, your lifestyle, your favourite colours for interiors and what sort of look you’d like to achieve, and then make suggestions based on your answers. How about colour matching your flooring to either your wall colour or your soft furnishings? We can take any colour you like and make sure your carpet will fully complement your colour scheme. Matching colours across different areas of a room will pull it together and make it look like an interior designer has been at work! Alternatively you might decide you want to ditch the carpet and replace it with vinyl, or vice versa. Again, we can discuss the benefits of different options such as wood flooring, carpet, tiles, vinyl and laminates to establish what works best for you. Whatever approach you decide to take to revamping your flooring this Spring, pop in to our Worthing or Storrington shops for a chat with our experts about the choices available to you.
What Easter means for carpets…
This time of year there tends to be a huge spike in carpet cleaning. Not just because it’s Easter, but for a variety of reasons; So what’s the best way to get ground-in Easter Egg out of your lounge carpet? If you know you have bleach-cleanable carpets (we sell lots of these – especially to families with young children!) then you can use most domestic cleaning products to get the stain out – although we would always recommend reading the label and following the instructions before using them. If, however, you’re not sure, then it’s best to start with some warm soapy water, a clean dishcloth or scrubbing brush and some kitchen roll. Of course some stains are more stubborn and in these cases it might be best to either hire in a professional carpet cleaning machine or a reputable carpet cleaning company. These can be especially effective if you have large or high traffic areas of carpet that needs cleaning such as the hall, stairs and landing or a through lounge-dining room. In our experience, chocolate stains do come out of carpets with a little elbow grease most of the time . Just be wary of the red wine and the berry cheesecake at the big family Easter dinner though!
Time for an update!
Being 60 years old this year focused our attention on something that was perhaps a bit dated… our image! We had not changed the shopfronts or the logo since at least the mid 1990’s so we knew it was time to bring ourselves up to date. Once we looked at the project we realised that we needed some help to keep everything on track and in line, so we worked with local agency, Ask for the Moon, to help us get everything sorted. Kelly O’Haire, Director at Ask for the Moon, says, “Many clients don’t realise quite how much time and trouble a big rebranding project can take – let alone all the extra things that are involved. We have worked on everything from the very obvious things like the two shopfronts in Worthing and Storrington, to the tiny things like the envelopes. We’ve helped with the new design, advertising, website, social media, business cards, uniforms, invoices… Basically, if it’s got the new Wall Bros logo on it then we’ve sorted it out! We even got Wall Bros involved in the Adur and Worthing Business Awards – which, at time of writing, we’re not sure of winning (that’s another blog entirely!). It was really gratifying to hear from customers about how much they loved the service and to see them get involved in the nomination process too. We asked them to nominate Wall Bros for one particular category (best retailer) and they ended up nominating them for 3 different categories too! It’s great to see a project like this through from start to finish. The immediate results and feedback alone have been well worth all the hard work so far.” You can see from the pictures just how much has changed. Wall Bros is now firmly in the 21st Century and ready for the next 60 years. Bring on 2077!