Most people purchase carpets - statistically, you're probably one of them. If so, this article should be of some use to you, since it holds forth at considerable length about carpets, and carpet floor coverings. Carpet floor coverings, obviously enough, are nothing but carpets - I suppose one could buy coverings for carpets, some sort of dust-sheet, for instance, to protect the carpet if one us to leave it unrolled in an empty house for some length of time, but that is not the subject of this article - carpets are, and so here a carpet floor covering is simply a carpet, nothing less or more.
Different kinds of carpets
That is not to say, of course, that carpet floor coverings are in any way 'less'. As we were saying, most people purchase carpets, of one size or another. Carpets, and other floor coverings, come in a variety of sizes, from a rug, to an area-rug, to a carpet floor mat, to a wall-to-wall carpet - no matter the size of your house and/or apartment, the style and size of your furniture, the colour of your walls and the heft of your bank-balance, somewhere or the other, there is a carpet floor covering that is just right for you in weight and warp and price and dimensions. After all, carpets come not only in a variety of sizes, but in a variety of makes, each best suited for a certain décor - a Persian carpet might be your carpet floor covering of choice, if your rooms are elegant and sophisticated, and evoke and invoke an old-world charm; a colourful woollen carpet, though much simpler, would work far better as the carpet floor covering in a modern room, painted in cold colours and filled with metal furniture, it would lend a spot of colour and warmth to the room, humanise it.
Picking the right carpet
Picking the right carpet floor covering is very important - it's an integral part of your décor, and an unsuitable carpet is every bit as bad as buying a dining-table that clashes with the chairs, or placing a steel end-table in the same bedroom as an ornately-carved, hardwood bed. It's the sort of fashion faux pas that can entirely ruin the effect of an otherwise perfectly appointed room. So you should spend some time looking over all available carpet floor coverings, and evaluate your options before making a final purchase - if possible take along a sample of the curtain-fabric, you don't want the carpet to clash with the drapes, after all.