Colorado Springs by Balta Carpets

My period of inactivity is over – everyone needs a holiday. I can report that carpet fitting in the Balearics is shoddy from what I saw of it!

Back to business. Balta Carpets, the huge Belgian manufacturer, have launched a lovely chunky, shaggy carpet called ‘Colorado Springs.’ It is very sustantial, around 20mm thick and comes with a 10 Year Stainsafe Warranty and a 7 Year Wear Warranty.

Colorado Springs

It feels wonderful underfoot. Yes, it will flatten over time, but in the meantime you get a sumptuous, glorious luxury carpet for your money. The colours in this range are well thought out and on the button. Balta definitely seem to have their fingers on the pulse of current colour trends. My pick of this bunch has to be the lovely silvery ‘Dove 920′, and the simply stunning ‘Autumn 360.’ The latter colour is a gorgeous fleck of green on grey and I’ve tried to scan it in here and show it:

Colorado Springs: Autumn 360

As salesmen often say, “I’m thinking about putting this one down in my own lounge,” and I am – really.

I don’t yet have the official pile weight to hand but it is heavier than say Stainsafe Comfort and Covent Garden, two comparable products and certainly falls into the luxury bracket. If shops fit a display piece of this onto Cloud 9 Cumulus or Deepstep and ask the customer to take off their shoes and sink their toes in, the sale will follow swiftly.

I’d recommend it and I’d say you will most likely pay £18-£25 per square metre for it and it should be widely available. It comes in 4m wide rolls only.

(Originally posted on the 5th August 2009)