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!