Most of the time the child spends in the nursery. This is the place where the baby sleeps, plays, crawls. And when he grows up a little, he does his homework and morning exercises here. Any parent knows that children are most fond of messing around on the floor. To create comfort, coziness, a safe and warm place for outdoor games, it is worth approaching the choice of flooring with all seriousness.
Is a carpet for children a suitable option?
Each floor covering in a child’s room has its own weaknesses. The fragile laminate will quickly fail due to regular active children's fun. Linoleum is perfectly washed, but it is always cold. Eco-friendly
cork is too expensive.
What about the warm, soft, bright carpet? Thanks to the wide range, it is easy to choose the right option for any interior, it is suitable as a floor covering for the playing area. How much money will you have to buy a carpet in a nursery? The price for 1 square meter starts from 120 rubles, but you can find copies costing from 2000 and above.
Advantages and disadvantages of carpet in the nursery
The carpet is good in that it:
Carpet for children is able to soften the blow when a child falls during outdoor games and pranks. On the warm floor, the baby will not be cold, and thanks to the ability of this coating to retain heat, it will be able to walk around the room even barefoot. A child is much less likely to slip, tuck his leg, and unsuccessfully fall on a non-slip carpet than, for example, on tiles or linoleum.
Bright colorful floor coverings will surely please the baby, and the ability to choose the theme of the drawing will allow you to design a children's room in a certain style.
Carpet for children has disadvantages:
- accumulates dust;
- gets dirty quickly.
With the right choice of a high-quality carpet for a children's room, the manifestations of these shortcomings can be minimized.
How to choose a carpet for the nursery?
The industry produces needle-stitched, needle-punched and woven carpets. Needle punch is similar to felt, it is lint-free and has a long service life. Most often, this type is used in office and public buildings.
In a woven carpet, the pile is attached to the base. The woven coating is durable, durable and can be used for a child’s room, but is expensive.
Needle-stitched carpet is obtained by sticking piles of needles into the base of the pile and fixing them with glue on the back for greater reliability. With this method of production, a carpeting for children is obtained that is durable, reliable and quite suitable in quality and price. In the manufacture of tufted (needle-piercing) flooring, not only glue can be used. Latex and artificial jute with latex reinforcement are often used as fixers.
It is worth paying attention to the length of the pile. Too long and fluffy for children is not good. The maximum acceptable pile length is 2–4 mm.
For the children's room, a velor coating with a bright print is ideal, the upper part of the pile of which is fluffy, it is soft, easy to clean.
Carpet requires regular attention of the hostess. Several times a week, it is necessary to clean it from dust with a vacuum cleaner. Stains that appear for any reason should be removed immediately. This will be much more difficult to do later. Every six months, any coating requires a deep dry cleaning. But remember that the washing vacuum cleaner was not created for a high-pile wool carpet or jute base.