Tips To Keep Your Carpet Looking Good Home Improvement by Rose McKellen - March 19, 2013 Among the different kinds of flooring options available in the markets worldwide, carpet flooring is possibly the most popular choice. There are many reasons for this popularity but the main ones are the cost effectiveness of carpets, the availability of wide variety of designs, colors as well as styles, the ease of installation and the low maintenance cost. Lexington carpet flooring looks extremely good too. But if you want your carpet flooring to last long and keep looking good too there are certain things you should do. Given below are tips to help you keep your carpet looking new for as long as possible: Image Source : feelgoodfloors.com Clean regularly – it is quite easy to keep your carpet flooring clean. All you need to do is just use a vacuum cleaner regularly. Using vacuum cleaner very frequently, on the other hand, can damage the texture of your carpet and hence you should optimize the use of vacuum cleaner by fixing the time gap between the two cleaning schedules correctly. Regular cleaning of the carpet by a professional carpet cleaner is necessary too after regular time intervals. Image Source : feelgoodfloors.com Use a dark colored carpet – light colored carpets like off white or while shades of course look extremely good as well as sophisticated. But if you want to keep your carpet floor looking good for a long time, it would be better to choose a dark colored carpet. The reason is obvious, dark colored carpets would not show the stains of food spills or the dirt from feet of people unlike a light colored carpet. Especially if the carpet flooring is in your seating room, the floor would have numerous feet trampling on it all day and hence it would need cleaning frequently too. But even then you cannot keep your light colored carpet looking good for a long time. By using a dark colored carpet though, you ensure the longevity of the good looks of your carpet flooring. Image Source : feelgoodfloors.com Shift your furniture regularly – shifting your furniture regularly is necessary to help your carpet avoid getting the dimples caused by keeping something heavy on something soft. Your carpet would really look bad and would also lose its appeal if it has ugly indentation marks all over. To avoid this problem, the solution is to keep moving your heavy furniture after short intervals of time. The texture of the carpet is responsible too for deciding if there would be groove marks on the carpet due to heavy furniture. There are certain soft kinds of carpets that are easily marked and then there are certain hard material textured carpets that do not get dimples easily from heavy furniture. If the room of your home with carpet flooring has heavy furniture, make sure you choose a hard textured carpet, if you want it to last long. Image Source : nconservationconversations.com If you just follow the three above mentioned simple tips religiously, your carpet flooring would last quite long and would surely keep looking good as well as stylish for a long period of time.