Last week, our master craftsman Jody Tucker talked about a carpet job we did at the Aquidneck Club in Portsmouth, RI. We used a hand-loomed flat-woven broadloom from India.
This type of carpet is difficult to seam and Jody showed you how to cut through those loops and make it look good. We installed that carpet on the second floor of the clubhouse and every room was an odd-shaped polygon.
The problem is that the broadloom has a strong linear direction to it. It didn’t make sense to run the carpet in the same direction everywhere. Frankly—it would just look weird!
So what’s the solution?
We took oak saddles and we put them in each of the three bedroom doorways. That created a visual boundary between the upper hall and each bedroom.
That way, even though the patterns were going in different directions, it looked like an interesting design choice. Without the oak saddles, it would have been jarring to the eye.
If you’re dealing with directional patterns and you run into a situation where you can’t run all the carpet in the same direction, think about employing oak saddles in your doorways.
If you have any installation questions, give us a call at (401) 324-9215 or come see it in our Middletown showroom.
