STAIR RUNNERS
Enhance Your Home's Beauty and Safety with a Stylish Stair Runner Carpet
A beautiful stair runner serves as more than just a visual focal point in your home. It provides essential protection for your stairs, reducing wear and tear, minimizing noise from foot traffic and preventing slip hazards. At K. Powers & Company, we offer a diverse range of stair runners to suit every taste and budget.
Why Choose a Stair Runner from K. Powers?
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Extensive Selection: With hundreds of patterns, styles and colors of broadloom available, our showroom offers a comprehensive array of options to elevate your staircase's aesthetic. Our large size samples, available to borrow and try at home, make it easy to decide on the right color and pattern for your staircase.
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Expert Consultation: Our trained design consultants will guide you through the seletion process, considering factors such as your paint colors, furnishings, and lifestyle to ensure the perfect carpet choice for your stairs and halls. Prefer an in-home consultation? Contact us to schedule at your convenience.
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Durability: When choosing a stair runner, durability is paramount. We offer various constructions, from patterned Wilton weaves and woven Axminsters to heavy-duty flatweave and tufted carpets, all tailored to withstand your family's lifestyle and traffic levels.
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Customization: We understand that every staircase is unique, that is why we measure every staircase for custom sizing and width to ensure a perfect fit for your stairs.
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Installation Options: Whether you prefer wall-to-wall installation, wall to spindle, or a custom sized runner, we provide versatile installation styles to suit your preference. Choose from narrow carpet binding or wide carpet tapes for a finished look.
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Hollywood or Waterfall Style: Decide between Hollywood, offering a tailored look with the carpet wrapped tightly over the nosing, or Waterfall, creating a flow across the tread and down the riser. Our design experts will help you choose the best method for your chosen style carpet.
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Stair Runner Ideas: Check out our blog posts and stair runner gallery for lots of great ideas to get you started on your decorating journey.
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Stair Runner Buyer's Guide: Our buyer's guide provides additional information on what to look for when deciding on a stair carpet.
Wool Flatweave Stair Runner
A flatweave wool carpet, such as the one featured below, is an excellent option for a stair runner, offering both durability and style. The flat, woven construction of this type of carpeting provides a sleek and low-profile solution that is ideal for high-traffic areas like stairs, ensuring both longevity and easy maintenance.
Carpet: Peter Island Stripe in color Graphite
Resource: Kaleen Carpet
Fiber: 100% Wool
Construction: Flatweave
Shown with Narrow Cotton binding edge treatment.
Wilton Carpet Stair Runner
The intricate patterns of wool Wilton carpets are unparalleled and can beautify any staircase. However, Wiltons are not as durable as flatweave or tufted carpets for heavy traffic, and can also be subject to pet damage from the loops being pulled up.
Carpet: Onta in color Silver from Dabbieri Naturals Collection.
Fiber: Wool Blend
Construction: Woven Wilton
Shown with a Wide Cotton binding edge treatment.
Wilton carpets are also woven in a cut-pile construction, called a face-to-face Wilton. T he popular antelope print carpet shown below is constructed in a synthetic fiber, Polypropylene. Read about the popularity of animal print carpets.
Carpet: Tundanca in color Sand from Louis A. Dabbieri.
Fiber: 100% Polypropylene
Construction: Face to Face Wilton pile.
Hollywood or Waterfall Style Stair Runner
Choosing between a Hollywood or Waterfall style stair runner installation is the last step in the process.. Hollywood refers to the method where the carpet is wrapped over the edge of the stair and tacked tightly under the nosing, creating a tailored look. In Waterfall style, the carpet is brought over the stair tread and straight down the riser, creating a flowing effect. Learn more about choosing Hollywood or Waterfall.
Hollywood Style Stair Runner
Waterfall Style Stair Runner
Explore our Carpet Collection
With the many different styles, colors and textures to choose from, it's easy to find the perfect stair runner to fulfill your needs. Go bold or be demure, a stair carpet runner will add warmth and beauty to your home. Check out our Stair Runner Gallery below as well as our Carpet Gallery to find a sampling of the many carpet patterns and colors in our store.
Visit our showroom to explore our extensive collection of stylish stair runners, schedule an in-home design consultation for personal assistance, or contact us for more information. Let us help you transform your staircase into a stunning focal point while enhancing safety and beauty throughtout your home.
