Carpet Remnants – What To Do With Them ?

Carpet Remnants – Just A Simple Carpet ?

Though simple wood surfaces are becoming more popular these days, the carpet still reigns supreme as the ultimate choice for decorating your floors and serving the practical purpose of warming up your feet. Let us face it, buying new carpets is a big deal as the harmony and general atmosphere of the room depends on your choice. So always choose carefully if you do not want your dwelling to have the air of a Gothic house or the sense of flamboyancy of a circus.

So, let us assume that you have bought them, your fit them to the correct measurements and position and perhaps you have hit the jackpot and it looks pretty good. Great! But after the fitting, you notice that you have bought the wrong size carpet, thus resulting in some cutting and some spare carpet remnants. What should you do? By no means should you throw them away. You would be wasting money and some quite useful decorating material. Working with scrap material can be fun and fulfilling in the end if you know what you are doing.

The most important thing to take into account is colour. Colour coordination and contrasts can make or break your carpet remnantsuse in that same way that, well, you use carpets in themselves. Matching the pieces of carpets with the right corners and niches can be quite easy if you pay attention. A light coloured carpet remnant, say a beige or a silver white, can go very well in a corner where you

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have dark oak furniture or in a gloomy and old fashioned home library. You can picture it can’t you? If you try it, you will see that it works and it brings something special to your room. Green shaggy pieces can be incorporated very well on a small porch or veranda to give the sense of grass under your feet when you relax with a cup of tea and the paper or for those busy city dwellers can bring a little of longed for nature into their little balconies. Your kids would not mind playing on them, you can only guess how their imagination can turn them into a grassy field or a wild forest for they toys. Colours, whether flamboyant or neutral can be fitted almost anywhere, just use your sense of coordination and imagination.

Carpet Remnants – Factors That Count ?

Another factor can be the size of the carpet remnant. You never know until all the cutting is done. But fear not, whether tiny or of considerable size, square, oval, round or elongated, you will certainly manage to find a spot for them. An oval carpet remnant can go without any sweat under a round table, whether it is smaller or larger than the table, to create a sort of ‘magic’ eye if you wish. In the same tone, a perfectly round piece makes a great contrast in a corridor filled with square or rectangular pictures and paintings. Elongated pieces can help highlight some feature stairs. You get the idea, round goes well in straight lines corners and square and rectangular go well in round corners or with feature items. Unless, of course, you are a minimalist which likes to associate straight lines with straight lines and circles with circles. Quirky shapes can also make the room more fun and interesting.

Carpet Remnants Conclusion ?

Carpet remnants can indeed be very useful if you know how to use them. If you got the hang of it and you caught the taste and you have not been fitting new carpets lately, do not worry. Carpet remnants are also sold in retail specialized shops, as well as in scrap yards or your neighbours’ seasonal garage sale. So release your imagination and use a cheap and practical way of improving your home.