Carpet for the nursery: the nuances of choice (21 photos)

The floor in the nursery can be the most diverse: it can be covered with linoleum, laid with parquet, covered with a large carpet, but the best solution will always be a carpet for a baby who does not yet know how to walk, and for a tomboy-schoolboy.

Pros and cons

Children's carpet, like any floor covering, has its advantages and disadvantages. The list of the first is quite large:

• Heat. Carpet laid on the floor, even in the coldest house with poor heating will save heat and protect the child from a cold in winter. No drafts, no problems with slippers and socks. The kid can crawl on it on his knees, run, lie on it with a book and remain healthy.
• Density. Children are active and on slippery floors can easily slip and injure themselves. On the carpet you can run in socks or barefoot, playing catch-up or pretending to be a typewriter, and not fall even on sharp turns.
• Brightness. Children's carpet is different from linoleum and parquet in colorful attractive patterns that will lift the child's mood and allow him to live in a fairy tale. You can find a carpet with a picture depicting a city or railway, with animals or cartoon characters, with patterns or castles. With a certain fantasy, with the help of this flooring you can create a real piece of the magic country in a single house.
• Ease of care. In the presence of a vacuum cleaner, cleaning the coating becomes the simplest thing - once every two days it is enough to spend half an hour to easily cope with dust and dirt. In addition, the carpet often does not absorb liquids, and therefore it is easy to remove stains of juice and paint from it, which even the most obedient children can leave.
• Softness. Even if the baby falls, and this happens to all children, especially when they learn to walk, the likelihood that he will injure himself on the carpet is less than in the case of other coatings.
• Easy to install. You can easily lay a carpet in the nursery with your own hands. The simplest option, which is also suitable for small warm apartments, where in the summer the carpet becomes a source of heat and dust, lay the carpet on the floor and glue it around the perimeter with any adhesive material, starting with adhesive tape and ending with specialized glue.

Despite the fact that the carpet is definitely a good solution, it also has disadvantages:

• Dust. The carpet is easily dusted and needs frequent cleaning.
• High pollution. It is not easy to stain the carpet, but any debris sticks to it easily and for a long time. In addition, if there are pets in the house, the coating will have to be cleaned every day, otherwise the drawing on it will not be visible under a layer of wool.

Even if you look at the situation from an arithmetic point of view, it becomes clear that the pros outweigh the cons. It is only necessary to choose a children's carpet so that it fits the room perfectly.

What determines the choice?

The carpet has its own classification, on which its qualities depend to a large extent.

Needle-punched

Between two layers of the base, a felt is enclosed, which is punched with needles using a special apparatus.

Each stroke pulls a string of felt along with it, resulting in a thin coating resembling felt.The main advantage of such a carpet is resistance to mechanical stress. Thanks to her, carpet is most often used in places where people constantly go. However, sitting and crawling on it is not too pleasant, because for a child it can not be called the best solution.

Tufted

In this method, needles are also used: fibers are pulled through the fabric base, resulting in small loops, the ends of which are fixed with glue. The loops can be cut, can be left as is, resulting in a wide variety of patterns. Such a carpet is relatively soft, but wears out faster than needle-punched, although it costs more.

Fabric

It is made according to the same technology that real carpets are made of: the pile is interwoven with warp threads, as a result of which it will be possible to separate them only by breaking the coating as a whole. Soft, reliable, able to serve for many years, but it is noticeably more expensive than other options.

According to the materials used for the manufacture of carpets are divided into two types.

Natural

These include both plant materials (flax, jute, coconut fibers) and animals (wool and silk). As a rule, the coating of them is soft, pleasant to the touch, looks nice and keeps heat well, without missing sounds. In addition, natural materials are environmentally friendly; they are easily decomposed after disposal. Cons: easily contaminated and no less easily affected by moth or mold. In wet rooms, natural carpet will not last long.

Artificial

The most modern options are not much different from natural ones - they are just as soft, just as warm, and they also cope well with sound insulation, but are absolutely immune to biological irritants. The mold does not take them, the fungus does not infect and does not eat moths. Moreover, they have a wider range of colors and last longer than natural ones. They are also cheaper.

By the appearance of the pile, it is customary to distinguish:

• Looped. In this case, the carpet gives the impression of a curly, usually very dense and pleasant to the touch. In addition, there are no traces left on it.
• Cut. In this case, the loops are cut and a pile of length from 3 mm to 7 remains. It is very pleasant to the touch, it seems plush, but traces on it will be very visible.
• Combined. Part of the loops remains curly, part is cut, resulting in a relief pattern on which no traces are visible.

In addition to the material, production technology and type of pile, color should be considered.

Solid

Depending on the general color scheme in which the interior is made, a plain carpet can look both advantageous and losing.

• White. It goes well with almost everything, but for a child’s room - for a boy or girl - it doesn’t fit very well because of its marbling. All dirt, everything scattered and spilled on it will be perfectly visible.
• Light beige tones. They can create a pleasant relaxing atmosphere, but are also easily dirty.
• Bright positive colors. They will look good in combination with light monophonic walls or with neatly calibrated doses of the same bright colors. Very sensitive to combinations - you should not combine warm and cold shades.
• Dark colors and black. Definitely not suitable for a children's room due to excessive gloom. You can use them only in the interior as an accent, but not as the main color for the carpet.

Drawings

They can be of different directions:

• Favorite characters. Suitable for a child who is passionate about a certain show and will be happy to live among the usual characters.
• Learning Schemes. For example, a carpet with a pattern depicting road markings. It may be useful for teaching a child traffic rules.

The main disadvantage of the drawings is that they will have to be changed, because the child’s tastes, even if he helped to choose, will change quickly and within a few years he will not want to live in the room with “little pictures” anymore.

Geometric patterns

The best carpet with a children's pattern possible, because it looks attractive, juicy and bright, fits in this room the teenager and can be perfectly combined with the right interior.

Before buying a carpet, you should also take care and read the reviews of those who have already purchased it. A certain company, a certain seller - choosing them according to reviews will be very far-sighted.

Care

It is important to know not only how to choose a carpet for a nursery, but also how to care for it so that it lasts for many years:

• every two days you need to vacuum it from dust and, if there are animals, wool;
• once every six months, he needs to be given a real cleaning: you can call a cleaning company, you can buy a special detergent and wash it, while scraping off the carpet with a brush;
• as soon as something is spilled on the carpet, remove the stain with a damp cloth and wipe the remaining trace with a special cleaning agent.

You also need to ensure that the child does not scatter toys, but more for reasons of aesthetics than for reasons of direct cleanliness of the carpet.

Subject to all the rules, and if the choice was the result of a careful and careful decision, the carpet can last for many years and even grow with the child, preserving the original brightness and beauty.