The complete guide to buying carpet online: What you need to know
Buying a carpet is one of the most important long-term investments you will make for your home. So, when searching for a new carpet, you’ll want a product that hits the mark in style, durability, and comfort.
At Morgan & Quinn, we offer a fantastic range of high-quality carpets to suit every home, making buying carpets online easy. However, as with any relatively expensive purchase, it pays to do your research to ensure you’re choosing the best carpet for your requirements.
If you are considering buying your next carpet online, here are some things our customers ask about time and again:
Table of contents
- Carpet samples
- Carpet fitting
- Underlay
- Carpets by room
- Material
- Shop high-quality carpets at Morgan & Quinn
Carpet samples
Free carpet samples are a great way to help you choose the best style for your home. They allow you to view different carpet styles under ‘true light’ conditions, i.e. the actual lighting in your home rather than the (usually brighter) lights in retail premises. It’s amazing how different carpets can look when placed inside your home!
At Morgan & Quinn, we offer carpet samples for various products for you to get a more personal feel for the options at your disposal.
Carpet fitting
If you’re buying carpet exclusively online, you’ll need to arrange your own fitting. The NICF (National Institute of Carpet and Floorlayers) holds a UK database of skilled carpet fitters, allowing you to search by postcode or region/location.
It can often work out cheaper to book your fitting separately, avoiding any potential markup from a retail store. Remember, there’s no such thing as ‘free fitting’.
You may also be tempted to fit the carpet yourself, but we’d always advise against this (unless you are, in fact, a professional carpet fitter). Getting a truly snug, clean and precise fit takes a lot of training and skill. After spending all that money on your carpet and accessories, it’s always a shame when we hear about or see botched fits. And because it would take a skilled fitter extra time to resolve any problems, take up the carpet, realign grippers, etc., you may end up more out of pocket by the end of the process.
You should ensure your carpet is fitted per BS5325, the British Standard for installing textile floor coverings.
Underlay
Like fitting, choosing your underlay is essential to achieving a high-quality finish.
Skimping on your underlay may sound like a great idea at first, especially if it helps you shave a few more pound signs off the price. However, buying carpet is a long-term investment, and as such, buying the highest-quality underlay (and grippers/accessories) will ensure a better finish and a higher degree of durability and comfort.
At Morgan & Quinn, we offer high-quality carpet underlay to suit every room in your home. Whether for your lounge, bedroom, or hallway, our underlay options ensure underfoot luxury while ensuring your carpet will last!
Carpets by room
When purchasing a new carpet, one of the most important considerations is what room the carpet is for. Different areas of the house require different carpets. For example, more hardware carpets suit stairs, whereas a softer touch may be needed for the living room.
Our guide will take you room by room so you can be clear about what carpet will be best for the space you want to improve.
Living room
Choosing the right carpet for your living room is crucial for your home, with the living room often acting as the personal and social hub of the house. At Morgan & Quinn, we understand how important this choice is, and we have a great range of lounge carpets for those creating their perfect solo space or busy families with high-traffic living rooms.
The lounge is often the busiest room in the house, so a long-lasting and comfortable carpet is key. Our lounge carpets feature soft and durable designs that are easy to maintain and clean stains and dirt from. Opt for a Berber style carpet to suit a high-traffic living room perfect for kids and pets, or go with a luxury Saxony carpet to give your room a delicate and soft feel.
Bedroom
Your bedroom is your space, and you should make it as comfortable as possible to suit your needs. Choose from our selection of bedroom carpets with abundant soft and cosy textures, helping you achieve the relaxing aura your bedroom deserves.
Getting up in the morning can feel difficult, but the perfect welcome into the new day is a comforting, plush and cosy warm carpet for you to step onto. From luxurious Axminster and velvet carpets to hard-wearing stain-resistant options, our bedroom carpets collection has something to suit every need. To properly create that warm feeling every bedroom needs, a darker-toned carpet can help achieve a cosy mood easily.
Hallway/stairs/landing
Potentially the busiest area of the home, the hallway, stairs, and landing get plenty of traffic daily. Hard-wearing carpets are required to provide the right protection for high-traffic areas of the house.
Due to these areas being so high-traffic, they are often subject to shoes and the dirt and mud that tends to come with them, meaning that the best carpet for stairs, hallways and landings is easy to clean. Avoid lighter colours that stain easily; choose a grey or golden brown shade. Our collection of stair carpets is durable and practical, so they will withstand the high traffic they encounter.
Bathroom
While carpeting a bathroom is by no means conventional, adding a carpet can bring a sense of warmth and comfort to the room. Practicality is the name of the game when choosing a carpet for your bathroom, with the need to be hard-wearing, durable and waterproof.
Bathroom carpets are designed to last and properly tackle the humidity and moisture of the room in the aftermath of a shower or bath. However, if a carpet in the bathroom isn’t for you, the option is always there to go the traditional route. Browse Morgan & Quinn’s LVT and laminate flooring options to find the perfect look and feel for your bathroom.
Dining room
Make your dining room a relaxed, cosy and welcoming place with a stain-resistant soft carpet to combat accidental spillages from the dinner table. Our dining room carpets can help your space feel bigger than it is and make the room the perfect place to eat and socialise.
A smooth and stain-free carpet would be the smart choice to help with the ease of sliding a chair under the dining table. There are still plenty of options in texture and style to match your dining room’s decor.
Kitchen
Much like bathrooms, it’s not overly common to have a carpeted kitchen, but that doesn’t mean your kitchen can’t benefit from our range of durable kitchen carpets. Hard-wearing must be considered to combat the humidity, spillages and mess on the kitchen floor.
With a range of shades to choose from, our kitchen carpets can bring warmth and comfort to your cooking space. Match the carpet to your decor with our long-lasting and stain-resistant carpets.
Material
Choosing the right material is imperative when you’re buying a new carpet. The material will define how the carpet feels on your feet, how long-lasting it will be, and where best it will go in the house.
Man-made carpet
Our collection of man-made carpets includes the materials polypropylene and polyamide.
Polypropylene carpets are easy to clean due to their hard-wearing and stain-resistant design and are suitable for any room in the home. Carpets of this material also offer excellent value for money.
Polyamide carpets are also easy to clean, ideal for family homes with plenty of traffic. The shape is maintained for long periods due to the fibres’ ability to stay upright and not flatten easily. These super soft carpets will fit wonderfully in your home.
Natural carpet
Alongside our man-made carpets, we have a collection made from natural materials with Sisal and wool in variations of Axminster, loop and twist available.
Hard-wearing, comfortable and with an organic look and feel, Sisal carpets can accompany a warm, autumnal decor. A traditional weave design gives these carpets their distinct look.
Wool carpets are ever reliable and perseverant. Natural springs in the fibres mean they can withstand plenty of traffic while maintaining their signature appearance. Easy to clean and sustainable, you can get a 100% wool carpet or a blend. Either way, your home will have a trustworthy and stylish carpet.
Shop high-quality carpets at Morgan & Quinn
This guide and our vast range of carpets will have you well on your way to buying your new carpet with the right style, durability and comfort for your home. The knowledge you’ve developed on what carpets are suitable for certain areas of the house and how to properly prepare for making one of your home’s most important long-term investments will set you in good stead.
Always be sure to research thoroughly before buying a new carpet, making your needs and daily life the forefront of your decision making process.
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