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Top 3 trending stair carpet ideas for your home
Looking for stair carpet ideas? Explore our top 3 trending designs, including practical grey options and bold contemporary patterns for a modern look.
13th September 2023
Imagine your staircase without carpet, it just wouldn’t be the same – cold, hollow and uninviting.
But stairs that have been covered in a layer of carpet, whatever the pattern, thickness or material may be, are totally transformed.
You may already like the carpet on your stairs and just be keeping an eye out for ideas for when you do replace it in the future.
Or you could have just moved into a new property and ripped up the old carpet as part of your renovation work.
Or maybe, you’ve set your sights on replacing your old carpet, but haven’t done it yet because you aren’t sure what to replace it with.
Whatever your circumstances, you’re in the right place. Take a look at my top 3 trending staircase ideas with carpet for guidance and inspiration on transforming your staircase in no time at all!
1. Grey stair carpet ideas
Because staircases are heavy footfall areas, you ideally want to choose a colour that isn’t going to show up every single mark. Cue grey carpets – not only are they highly practical, they’re uber stylish and gender neutral too!
Pair your grey carpet with: Bright white bannisters and matching white and blank canvas walls that immediately draw your attention to your grey staircase carpet. Silver finishings and accessories look really stylish against a grey/cream or white colour scheme. For example, a row of silver photo frames running up your stairs and silver light fittings and light switches.
Other colours that work well with grey:
- Any other shade of grey
- Mustard
- Blue
- Green
- Red
- Blush pink
Some grey carpet options to get you started:
2. Contemporary carpets for stairs
When it comes to carpeting your stairs, so many people immediately think about keeping things simple, which is a perfectly acceptable thing to do.
However, your stairs are often the first thing you see as soon as you step in through your front door, so why not make more of a bold statement out of them?!
From dots and squares, to leopard print, geometric patterns and tartan patterns, the contemporary carpet options are vast.
They’re also available in all sorts of different colours too.
Pair your contemporary carpet with: Neutral shades and plain backdrops, so that your carpet is the star of your staircase.
Colour-wise, stick to cream, white, beige, grey, greige and taupe colours and, depending on how busy your carpet design is, keep the patterns to just your stairs carpet.
E.g. patterned walls and a patterned carpet will just end up competing – and quite potentially clashing - against each other.
Some contemporary carpet options to get you started:
3. Striped stair carpet ideas
While we’re on the subject of contemporary carpets for stairs, we couldn’t not focus on striped stair carpets.
The beauty of putting stripes on your stairs, is that the lines naturally draw your eye up your staircase, making it even more of an attractive feature.
Pair your striped stair carpet with: Neutral and minimal backdrops that subtly complement the colours in your carpet and enable the striped pattern to really stand out.
Top tip: vertical stripes work better on stairs than horizontal stripes because of the way they guide your eye upwards and along the lines).
Dark wooden staircases look superb with warm and earthy stripes against them. While light wood staircases really show off brighter stripes to full effect.
Some further stair carpet buying guidance
Your stairway carpet needs to withstand the test of time, more than any other carpet in your home.
When you’re shopping around, focus on the pile height and density and, of course, the material.
They’re the three main factors that determine how hard-wearing your carpet will be. And if you’re just not sure about which carpet is best for your stairs, feel free to visit your local store or contact us for guidance.
A final few words about stair carpet designs…
While they’re easily overlooked, stairs are a fundamental feature in most homes.
Just as you would with the rest of your property, take the time to consider which carpet will show off your stairs to maximum effect and really position them as the statement feature they deserve to be.
Whatever shade you settle on, we hope the guidance in this article helps you choose the best sofa-carpet combination.
If you can’t choose between the three shades, don’t worry, that’s what free carpet samples are for!
Best of luck with your choices and don’t forget to share your finishing shots with us on Instagram by tagging @scssofas
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