Flooring visualisers help you choose your next carpet

During the coronavirus lockdown, carpet shops may be closed, but online visualiser tools let you see how different carpets will look in your home.

Flooring visualiser technology means that you do not have to leave your home to choose a new carpet in North Wales, or anywhere else. You take a room picture with your phone or camera and upload it to the visualiser system. You then choose a style, pattern and colour of the carpet and you will see a modified room image of how it will look with the selected carpet.

Many people decorate their rooms before laying a new carpet. Some visualisers will let you change the colour of the walls so that you can see how carpets go with various colour schemes.

Other visualizers let you change the floor material to wood, laminate or vinyl, as well as carpets. Whether you want a luxury pile wool carpet or a natural hardwood floor, visualiser technology shows you how each type of flooring and floor design looks in your room. You can even rotate the floor pattern to see how orientating a floor covering in different ways affects the look of the room.

You can print the images of how your rooms will look with new carpets. Some suppliers will send you swatches of carpets delivered to your home so that you can look at them in your room.

Being confined to your home is not ideal, but a good way to use the time is to plan room renovations for when restrictions are lifted.