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How to carpet your Victorian stairs

Carpet Victorian stairs

In a period house, stairs somehow look incomplete without a carpet on your Victorian stairs. There are different types of stair carpet you can use on your stairs. The main choice to make is whether you want the carpet to come to the very sides of your stairs…

15 Jul 2015

In a period house, stairs somehow look incomplete without a carpet on your Victorian stairs. There are different types of stair carpet you can use on your stairs. The main choice to make is whether you want the carpet to come to the very sides of your stairs and meet the wall, which tends to be a more contemporary look, or whether you want to use a stair runner, which is a carpet that runs down the centre of the stairs leaving the edges…

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Many of the products we sell at the Victorian Emporium are not simple DIY jobs to install and as such we thought a list of tried and tested tradesmen, as recommended by our customers, might be of use to purchasers of items such as stair runner carpet, railings…

14 Apr 2015

Many of the products we sell at the Victorian Emporium are not simple DIY jobs to install and as such we thought a list of tried and tested tradesmen, as recommended by our customers, might be of use to purchasers of items such as stair runner carpet, railings and cornice.

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Hall runner carpets

Hall runner carpets

Hall runner carpets are commonly required because a period house has a long corridor or hallway, and the addition of a hall runner carpet makes the floor warmer on the feet than plain floorboards or tiles. It also makes the hall appear more homely and saves…

31 Jan 2014

Hall runner carpets are commonly required because a period house has a long corridor or hallway, and the addition of a hall runner carpet makes the floor warmer on the feet than plain floorboards or tiles. It also makes the hall appear more homely and saves wear and tear on your floor tiles or boards.

Tags: carpets, flooring