Carpet buying guides, cleaning, and reviews
Walk into any high-end hotel ballroom, casino floor, or corporate lobby and the carpet under your feet is almost certainly custom — designed for that…
The biggest carpet bills come from mistakes made before the first roll arrives. Order 5 percent short and you wait three weeks for a second…
The “$99 whole-house install” mailer from a major carpet retailer is one of the most aggressively advertised offers in home improvement, and it is also…
Mention Berber and most homeowners picture the flecked tan loop carpet that covered every basement rec room from 1995 to 2010. That style is still…
Walk into any carpet showroom and you will see a wall of samples that look confusingly similar until you run your hand across them. The…
The radio ads promise it. The billboards announce it. The mail flyers repeat it monthly. A $99 carpet installation deal sounds like the answer for…
Vacuuming removes dirt and debris but does nothing about the bacteria, dust mites, pet dander, and viruses that settle deep into carpet fibers. Learning how…
A toddler with a Sharpie and 30 seconds of unsupervised time can leave a mark that looks permanent. It is not. Learning how to get…
Layering a rug on top of wall-to-wall carpet used to be considered a decorating mistake. Today it is one of the easiest ways to warm…
A carpet seam is the one detail every installer obsesses over, because it’s also the one detail every homeowner notices when it fails. Knowing how…
