They Make Such Good Outdoor Carpets These Days. You Owe It to Yourself to Take a Look

You can't walk on grass with your shoes and socks on and actually feel how great it is. Carpets are intended for the feet, too. You're supposed to be able to get out of bed and just plant your feet right on the floor without giving you a jolt for how cold it is. People don't just use carpeting for the way it looks. It's also for how great it feels to walk on. Well, your outdoor areas - your porch, your balcony or your patio - would really benefit from a little softness too. If you find yourself agreeing, then outdoor carpet is for you.

There's a reason that the whole outdoor carpet idea hasn't caught on that well. The first kinds that came out were made to emulate a grassy look. For this, they made the unfortunate decision to use a tough sharp edged plastic. They would use this plastic tape to weave in and out of the carpet base. When you walk on it, it was like walking on a bed of thorns. It took them a few years to realize that this wasn't what people were looking for. By then though, the damage was done. People began to associate outdoor carpet with this kind of thing.

These days though, they've come up with all kinds of options that are both beautiful and easy on the feet. You really could look at the outdoor carpet department at your local furnishings store.

Perhaps the best kind of carpet to choose for your outdoors would have to come from the indoor outdoor carpet section. As you might guess by the name, this is carpeting that they intend for you to use anywhere around your house - regardless of whether it's indoors or outdoors. For the most part, carpeting of this kind does best in outdoor places that have some kind of shelter - a porch for instance.

If you're looking for indoor carpeting to use in hallway or other high-traffic places in your house, you could do a lot worse than indoor outdoor carpeting. Basements are another indoor area where outdoor carpet would really shine. It is going to last you forever because it's built for the outdoors. It's built to take a certain amount of moisture.

Of course, you certainly can consider using outdoor carpet in places around your property that are completely exposed and have no shelter whatsoever. They make carpeting of this kind with olefin or polypropylene. Carpeting made of materials like these tend to be quite tough. They don't absorb moisture, they don't grow mildew and they can be very low maintenance.

You've heard of polypropylene and olefin before of course - it's the same material used in the crude green fake grass outdoor carpeting they made before. But they've learned their lesson. Even with the same materials, they make soft, tufted stuff now for the outdoors.