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Having Fun on the Floor
008 saw a revival of 70’s style new carpet sales is in new-style, textured flooring,
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across the board. High-waisted, from jumbo yarns and irregular hand knotted
wide leg trousers and floaty, floral styles, to carpets made to look like pom poms.
maxi dresses littered the fashion Interior Designer Danielle Proud, spearheading
magazines, while Eagles and the Fun on the Floor campaign, says: “People are
Led Zeppelin concerts sold out nationwide. searching for something that little bit different and
Coming into Spring/Summer 2009, in terms of want to make their homes stand out whilst still
the home shagpile carpet and deep shades of remaining contemporary. 70’s colour palettes
Biba-esque purple are becoming leading trends and carpet styles are making a comeback. Deep
in interior design. shagpiles in aubergine, tangerine and forest
Leading carpet manufacturers have green are suddenly looking right again, while
announced a massive 400% increase in sales of patterns from 70’s style to Victorian flourishes,
Shagpile carpet since 2006. The main focus in are the big story of Spring/Summer 2009.”
Victorian Room luxurious, soft pile pure wool carpet in
The room has a modern “gothic” feel deep red, with antique monkey
with a definitive wow factor. Lots of sleek illustrations digitally printed over the top.
dark colours and traditional furniture The main carpet is framed within a claret
shapes, give a modern edge. Huge border. Ornate standard lamps feature
outsize sofas are covered in cool different dressings on top adding a
mulberry and deep red carpet tones, playful edge. Lighting is key in this room,
while the seat-pads echo the ornate especially around the huge furniture
pattern in the bespoke monkey print which will be uplit or down lit to create
carpet. The focus for this room is to areas of dramatic tension. The curtains
create a darkish stately backdrop, with a are exquisitely made and hand finished,
distinctly Victorian feel, and a layer of using a patchwork of silks. While the
colour and modish elements over the resurgence in Victorian style dovetails
top. The main carpet in this room is a perfectly with the carpet comeback.
Kidult Room cameras now, etc), and a result of
A grown up version of the kid’s people’s irritation with the price and
playroom, this is the new breed of a discomfort of commercial cinemas.
leisure room that people are creating in It’s ultra comfy, fun and the colours
their homes as dads are playing and textures make you want to just
computer games as much as their dive in and slob out. It has the feel of a
children and the football /movies aren’t modern chill out room. The room is
as fun to watch on a screen that’s not packed with huge comfy rocker chairs
cinema sized. This is a cross between covered in snazzy red and navy zebra
a family media room and a chill out print, facing a big TV screen, while the
room. This room is the result of all the walls are carpet “booth style” with
professional consumer technology on seating built into the walls. The carpet
the market (home cinema screens at is jet black, deep shag pile and
affordable prices, everyone with video wonderfully soft and comfy underfoot.
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