How to Design your Home with Handmade Carpets

Erika Chaudhary
5 min readMay 16, 2021

Things to know when placing handmade carpets in your home

Photo from our designed house in London

Everyone wants a beautiful home. Beautiful can be subjective particularly when it comes to your own home. However, when it comes to designing a house there are some universal truths. You need windows, walls and good flooring. When it comes to carpets ideally you’ll have no machine-made carpets, however, sometimes it’s unavoidable.

If you have stairs in the English home you’ll probably use the machine-made carpet for it. The machine-made carpet will last you a maximum of 5 years if you use it a lot. However, it fits the English London terrace house. You can choose a more durable machine-made carpet that can last you longer than 5 years.

I am not a fan of machine-made carpets, however, they do serve a purpose in certain instances such as these (photo below). I used machine-made carpet for the stairs in the hallway in the London terrace house because it’s appropriate for the country and the house.

Great solutions for stairs can be marble, tiles and wood it depends on where your house is, how hot or cold a country it is and your personal preference.

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Erika Chaudhary

I am a writer who learned to code! I write about personal experiences within a humanist and global context. Find me on Twitter & Instagram @erikachaudhary