Arnold’s Home Furnishings Carpet and Design Center
Our complementary design services include everything from consultation in your home, through the choice of color, pattern and texture, to arranging and installation by our expert and trusted team. We can co-ordinate your furnishings and window treatments with your new carpet if you wish. We offer a wide variety of floor coverings from several excellent manufacturers and encourage you to visit our showroom to see what's new.
Arnold’s Carpet Center is proud to be a retailer of Tuftex Carpet. Tuftex, Shaw Floors premier brand, is a California Carpet manufacturer known for its innovative color, design, quality and care for the environment.
The Karastan 'Wonder Rug' wowed tens of thousands of visitors at two World's Fairs. Consumers quickly learned that the Karastan name means quality, beauty, and durability.
In a North Carolina mill during the 1920's, Marshall Field & Co. created an exciting and innovative product – machine-made oriental design rugs of high quality at realistic prices. These elegant new rugs, almost impossible to distinguish from imported originals, were introduced by Wanamaker's New York department store in 1928, and the Karastan brand was born.
The year American retailer and textile manufacturer Marshall Field built a loom capable of recreating the detailed craftsmanship of a hand-woven rug. From the moment the first Karastan came off the loom (2:02 p.m., April 8, 1928), the Karastan name became synonymous with elegant machine-made rugs that rivaled their handmade counterparts.
So far advanced was the new manufacturing process that the trade press referred to their rugs as "Mystery Rugs." To share the "mystery" of these rugs with the public, Karastan created a large version of its Kirman pattern for the 1933-34 World's Fair in Chicago. But instead of putting it on display so visitors could simply admire its beauty, Karastan did the unthinkable. They invited the world to walk on it. And so the world did.
More than 5 million people left their footprints, spills and ground-in food stains all over the rug. Then it was time for cleanup. They cleaned half the rug so people could see how well their rugs recover. The rug still exists in the same state today—one side almost unrecognizably filthy, the other returned to its original beauty and luster.
To prove that the demonstration was no fluke, they did it again. This time more than 9 million visitors walked on their rugs at the New York World's Trade Fair of 1939-40. It's no wonder their rugs became known as "The Wonder Rugs of America.
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Delivery and Installation
We are able to arrange delivery and installation locally using our own delivery crews and independant, licensed and insured, installation contractors. Our team routinely performs installation in local communities including Allyn, Bainbridge Island, Belfair, Bremerton, Gig Harbor, Keyport, Kingston, Port Angeles, Port Ludlow, Port Orchard, Poulsbo, Port Townsend, Seabeck, Sequim, Shelton, Silverdale, Suquamish, Tracyton and surrounding areas.