Before choosing your carpeting, you must first decide on color, fiber choice, texture, and how that carpeting will perform for you in the long run. Bedrooms often have less traffic and would be an ideal choice for lighter colors. For a child's playroom, a darker shade would probably be more suitable. Although if the carpet has added in features such as stain resistance, lighter colors can be used in areas of high activity. When looking at colors, look at large carpet samples.
Color intensifies in larger areas.
Take the samples home and place them in the room to be carpeted. Look at the samples and see how the colors change during different times of the day. Density is checked by pressing the carpeting with your fingers to see how difficult it is to get to the backing. The more backing you see, the less dense the pile, or less threads of yarn per square inch. To check for a good twist, examine the tips of the yarns and make sure that there is no fraying or untwisting of fibers.