Carpet shopping can get overwhelming —we’re here to decode it all and make it easy to find exactly what you want to fit the needs of your space.
When it comes to carpet, there really is something for everyone. That said, knowing a bit about the fibre types, construction, features, as well as the way we gauge feel and durability of carpets will help you navigate our range and find one that not only looks great, but will fit your lifestyle and the specific needs you have for your space.
Don’t forget you can always chat to our carpet experts over the phone or via video call, and they will be more than happy to help you.
Cut Pile
Across the world, cut pile carpets rank as the most popular choice for residential homeowners. Easy to clean and sturdy against pets claws and kids and other high-traffic and mess-prone environments, cut pile is a great choice for many people.
Cut pile carpets come in a variety of pile heights, measured from the base to top of the carpet fibre, and comfort underfoot increases with pile height. Our range spans from the most basic low pile height and highly affordable options up to those with the highest pile height that offer an extremely plush and luxurious feel.
Cut pile carpet features:
Claw Friendly
Pet Resistance
Loop Pile
Loop pile carpets are made of looped fibres and come in a wide variety of patterns and styles, ranging from hard-wearing commercial options to some of the most plush, foot friendly carpets available on the market.
Because loop piles don’t bend like cut piles can, they offer a uniform look, free from any footprints and vaccum lines. Although traditionally this style of carpet is made from wool fibres, our range includes loop pile carpets made from both wool and solution dyed nylon.
Loop piles offer a clean, modern look and add a sense of warmth to any space. Bear in mind that pets and loop piles aren’t a great mix, since claws can get caught in the loops and tear them, so if you're a pet lover, loop pile is probably not for you.
Loop pile carpet features:
Anti-shade
Carpet Shading
Solution Dyed Nylon
Around 80% of new carpet installations use solution dyed nylon carpet, and for good reason: it’s durable, resilient and has strong fade resistance, meaning it will look great for years in spite of New Zealand’s harsh UV.
Because they can tolerate a wider range of cleaning products, solution dyed nylon carpets are a breeze to keep fresh and tend to bounce back better than wool fibre carpets when it comes to the messes caused by children, pets, and high traffic areas. Naturally hypo-allergenic due to their construction and materials, they also offer solutions to those who struggle with allergies to natural fibres like wool.
Man-made certainly doesn’t mean low-end: our range of solution dyed nylon carpets include affordable entry-level carpets right through to extremely plush options with a luxe foot feel.
Solution Dyed Nylon carpet features:
Pest Proof
Insect Resistance
Hypoallergenic
Allergy Friendly
Anti-static
Shock Resistant
Fade Free
UV Resistant
Clean Easy
Stain Resistant
Wool
Wool carpet is a naturally luxurious choice: it offers comfort, durability and an endlessly renewable quality thanks to the sheep who provide it to the world. Insulation is naturally built in to the fibres themselves, meaning that wool carpets adjust well with the seasons, providing warmth in winter and a cooler feel in summer.
Wool provides excellent insulation against noise and performs better than solution dyed nylon carpets against heat and flame.
Because of New Zealand’s long history of success in the sheep farming industry, the best quality wool for carpet is sourced from our backyard. New Zealand sheep’s wool provides strong, naturally bulky yarn, with an exceptionally soft fibre. Both sustainable and local, this wool creates loop pile, textured and plush carpets that are both strong and soft, with unparalleled look and feel.
Wool carpet features:
Sustainable
Natural Fibre
Breathable
Self-insulating
Heat Hearty
Fire/Burn/Melt Resistant
As you browse the carpets in our range, you can sort by features, allowing you to browse only the carpets that include your desired features.
Each product page highlights all the features for each carpet, making it easy to compare your favourites and choose the best option for you.
Pest Proof
Insect Resistance
Pest Proof carpets include our comprehensive range of solution-dyed nylon products due to their natural resistance to bugs and pests.While relatively uncommon, there are several species of insects, including the notorious Carpet Beetle (Attagenus Megatoma), that eat away at the structure of a carpet, compromising the look of your space and making it more susceptible to future pests. When bugs look for a carpet to eat, they steer clear of man-made fibres, making solution-dyed nylon an attractive option for properties looking for extra protection against insects.
Hypoallergenic
Allergy Friendly
Allergy Friendly carpets include our comprehensive range of solution-dyed nylon carpets due to their reduced allergenic triggers.Even with the most dutiful carpet-care regime, microscopic dust particles will become trapped in carpet fibres. While every person’s allergic profile is unique, natural wool fibres can trigger reactions more commonly than synthetic solution-dyed nylon. For spaces used by those particularly prone to allergies or asthma, choosing a solution-dyed nylon carpet will heavily reduce, if not eliminate the possibilities of a negative reaction.
Claw Friendly
Pet Resistance
Claw Friendly carpets include our range of cut-pile solution-dyed nylon and woollen carpets due to their superior performance against pet claws.Over time, pet claws can catch in the loops of loop-pile carpet, slowly fraying and even ripping out the loops. Cats might even mistake loop-pile carpet for a wall-to-wall scratch pad. If pets with claws are active users of your home and spending a lot of time on your carpet, choosing a cut pile option could increase the longevity of your floor.
Anti-static
Shock Resistant
Anti-static carpets include our extensive selection of solution dyed nylon carpets.The friction caused by shoes and feet against a carpet floor can cause static buildup in any carpet, causing an unexpected zap from time to time. Both wool and solution-dyed nylon carpets can be treated to reduce this, but nylon always performs better in resisting static buildup. Our entire range of solution-dyed nylon carpets are treated and tested as low-static options.
Sustainable
Natural Fibre
Sustainable carpets include our extensive selection of woollen carpets.Wool is constantly regenerating on flocks and in paddocks across the world, making it one of the most naturally sustainable fibres available. Its naturally biodegradable properties also give wool a low environmental footprint, making it a great choice for both your home and the earth.
Breathable
Self-insulating
Breathable carpets include our extensive selection of woollen carpets.The structure of the natural fibres that make up a wool carpet enable them to trap air in microscopic pockets that maintain a constant temperature year-round. This means that wool carpet is essentially self-insulating, and will keep your feet both warmer in winter and cooler in summer.
Fade Free
UV Resistant
Fade Free carpets include our comprehensive range of solution-dyed nylon products due to their ability to resist harsh UV for longer than other fibres.The flip side of sun-soaked living spaces is the potential that textiles and carpets will fade over time. Unfortunately, the sun in the southern hemisphere is particularly harsh. The thinner ozone layer over New Zealand, and our cleaner air, mean we have less of a barrier between UV light and the carpet in our homes. All carpet will eventually fade, but solution-dyed nylon carpets are constructed with a sealed colour-coating that resists fading for longer. Due to the natural fibres that make wool carpets so plush, colour sits on the outside of the fibre — so rich coloured wool carpets are more susceptible to fading over time. Every carpet in our range will last for years, but some fibres will perform better than others in areas where UV exposure is particularly harsh.
Anti-shade
Carpet Shading
Anti-shade carpets include our extensive selection of loop pile carpets and our commercially rated low pile, high density cut-pile carpets.Depending on the way the light catches cut-pile carpets, they are prone to a phenomenon known as carpet shading, tracking, pooling or pile-reversal. Although it’s naturally occurring, it can appear as if water has spilled or pooled in some areas of the carpet, simply because of the way light catches a change or bend in the direction the pile naturally sits. Difficult to understand and nearly impossible to predict, the effects of shading cannot be fully known until a carpet is installed in a space. Loop-pile carpets have a static state, making them immune to shading, but all cut-pile carpets will be affected by shading in some way. On the continuum, the most plush cut-pile options with the lowest twist rating are most prone to extreme shading, whereas in lower pile options with a hard twist, shading will be less visible. To avoid shadows altogether, choose a loop pile carpet!
Clean Easy
Stain Resistant
Clean Easy carpets include our comprehensive range of solution-dyed nylon products due to their ability to handle high-strength chemical cleaning products with ease.When life happens, carpets respond to stains based on the fibre they are made of. Solution-dyed nylon carpets can handle high-strength cleaning products, and bounce back to their original state with little to no impact on the carpet’s colour. Wool tends to require a gentler touch: stains can certainly be removed from wool carpets, but using chemical-free, steam-based methods is the way to go. If you’re looking for a carpet for a high-traffic or spill-prone area that’s particularly susceptible to staining, solution-dyed nylon offers you quick, easy cleaning options and will come up looking fresh again and again.
Heat Hearty
Fire/Burn/Melt Resistant
Heat Hearty carpets include our extensive range of wool carpets due to their superior response to direct heat and flame.In the unfortunate event that a carpet comes into contact with direct heat, no carpet fibre will come out entirely unscathed. Flames, hot pans or irons and carpets simply don’t mix. While wool carpets will singe slightly, the actual fibres of solution-dyed nylon carpets will melt when in contact with extreme heat. Choose wool carpet to provide an extra layer of insurance against fire (or forgetfulness!).
Local
Kiwi-made
Local carpets are those in our range manufactured from start to finish here in New Zealand.Whenever possible, we love staying close to the source. Our range of carpets includes a number that are made and manufactured locally in New Zealand. These carpets give back to our economy at every step of the way and steer clear of the delays that are possible with off-shore production.
Our foot feel gauge is built on an algorithm that factors pile height, yarn weight, and density.
Different spaces have different needs, and our range of carpets offers something for each one.
Garage Style
These carpets are designed for function over feel. Sturdy and hard-wearing, they’ll get the job done in spaces where utility is a top priority. They soften spaces that might otherwise have concrete flooring, but aren’t designed for barefoot comfort.Sturdy High-use
These carpets are 9-5 workhorses. Designed to take all-day use, they have dense, low-pile construction and provide a comfortable base for high-traffic, high-wear spaces.Barefoot Friendly
These carpets offer a nice, soft feel without compromising hardy construction that can withstand high-use areas. Plenty cushiony for barefoot use, they are a perfect choice for homes and other spaces that need both comfort and functionality.Super Plush
These carpets invite you to kick off your shoes at the door and pad around on carpet that’s supremely soft. Designed for spaces where you want to feel right at home, they offer premium barefoot comfort.Cloudsoft
These carpets have all the extras: designed to offer the absolute softest feeling underfoot, they are constructed with fibres that are specially conditioned to deliver maximum comfort. Best used in barefoot spaces, they will make you sigh with joy when your feet hit the floor.Our durability scale is built on an algorithm that factors pile height, yarn weight, and machine gauge.
While every carpet in our range is designed to last, choosing the right type of carpet to fit the needs of your space is key to maximising its longevity.