Most people don't give much thought to carpets until they live someplace with wood or laminate floors. I know I'm in that boat myself, which helped inspire this slideshow of unconventional carpets and ridiculous rugs.
From typography rugs to faux pebble floors, these carpets showcase the best creations you won't find in your local home decor store.
Implications - Thanks to the magic of the Internet, however, it is becoming increasingly easy to check out some of the most creative floor-covering designs that the world has to offer. Who wouldn't want a typography rug that can be customized to say whatever you want? I know that I definitely do!
40 Unconventional Carpets
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Faux Stone Floors
2 Form Design Pebble Rugs Are Made of Felted Balls of Wool
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Rugs from Dead Pets
DogCarpets
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Intelligent Carpet Can Autodiscriminate
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Striking Floor Decor
Embellish Your Home with HZL Arty Style and Luxury Rugs
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Carpet Alarm Clock
Stand Up to Turn Off
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Faux Pebble Floors
Pachamama ‘Eclipse' Leather Rugs Look Like River Rocks
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Cardboard Carpets
Ravishing Recycled Rugs Made of Flattened Boxes by Wendy Plomp
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Living Bath Mats
The Moss Carpet Brings the Outdoors Into Your Bathroom
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Living Medieval Carpets
Gigantic Carpet of 700,000 Begonias in the Grand-Place, Brussels
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Super-Sized Knitting
Flocks Aran Wool Rugs Created With Giant Knitting Needles
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Criss-Cross Carpets
Rockin' Rugs to Create Serious Style for Floors
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Campaigns To Make Carpets Appealing
The Fun on the Floor House
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Novelty Toilet Cover & Rugs
The Butler Did It
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Faux Animal Skin Rugs
Vintage Dutch Blanket Polar Bear Carpets
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Heated Snake Rugs
The Eva
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Fake Blood Carpets
The Fluid Stairway
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Moss Carpets
Biodegradable Moss Planter is Mother Nature-Approved
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Permanent Outdoor Red Carpets
Switzerland's City Lounge
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Carpet Monsters and Rabbit Heads
Brilliantly Strange Photography by Todd Baxter
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Silhouette Rugs
Reuber-Henning Designs Funky Decor for Your Floor
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Recycled Carpet Sample Furniture
Rugburm Lounge Chair
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Flying Carpet
3D Rug For Maximum Lounging
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Giant Fake Grass Toys
Playground Carpet
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Loading Failure Carpets
'Playing With Tradition' for the Strawberry Fields Project
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Road Kill Rugs
Offensive Home Decor
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Typography Rugs
John Pour Home
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Giant Carpets
The "300 Knitted Carpet" by Sebastian Schoenheit
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Carpet-Lounge
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Recycled Rugs
Nanimarquina Rug From Rubber
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Micro Persian Carpets
Computer MouseRug Adds Eastern Flare to Your Office
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Interactive Glowing Rugs
High Tech Flooring
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Nature-Inspired Rugs
FIQ Accent Mats Give Any Room a New Look
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DIY Persian Rugs
The Recyclable Puzzleperser
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Unconventional Carpets – The 'Dialogue' Carpet Invites You To Relax And Play
The 'Dialogue' Carpet Invites You To Relax And Play
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Chic Putting Green Rugs
'Putt Up or Shut Up' Flooring
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Rug Explosion
Colorful Rugs from The Rug Company
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Rugs Made of Gloves
'A Proper Lady' Eco Mat Made From Vintage Accessories
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Sofa Floor Rugs
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Cashmere Carpet
Goat Belly Fur for $2000 / sq. yd.
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Upcycled Correx Lampshades
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Danish-Design Wool Felt Slippers
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Wooden Warm Light Collections
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Recycled Material Lamp Designs
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3D-Printed Recycled Material Furniture
The 'LOOM' Furniture Collection is Visually Soft
Collaborative Corduroy Furniture Designs
Solebox and Birkenstock Presents the Corduroy Project
Denim-Adorned Furniture Lines
Harry Nuriev Exhibits Denim Furniture, Inspired by the American Drea
Funky Colorful Storage Units
Pavel Vetrov's Funky Storage Units Capture Attention
Interior Design Concept Guides
IKEA Unveils its Inaugural Style Guide on Home Design
Printing-Inspired Footwear
Taylor Tabbs Re-Imagines the Converse Mid-Tops with HP Aesthetics
Stunning Biomaterial Exhibitions
Natural Material Studio Stuns with Floor-to-ceiling Biotextiles
Striking Storage-Friendly Poufs
The 'Berliner' Pouf by Tugce Sonmez Evin is Multifunctional
Upcycled Book-Made Marbled Furniture
Willem Zwiers Designs the Tranformed Remnants Series
Upcycled Rubber Material Partnerships
Hero Flooring and Nike Continue to Work Together
Virtual Room Stylers
Decorify by Wayfair is Powered by Generative AI
Reimagined Tie Dye Rugs
Reuber Henning Introduces Its New Eye-Catching Tie Dye Collection
Modern Marble Waste Lamps
The Sole Lamp by Hadiye Ozdemir is Luxurious and Eco-Friendly
Nature-Inspired Rocky Furniture
Moroso Unveils the Pebble Rubble Series of Rounded Furniture
Bauhaus-Inspired Pattern Collections
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Whimsical Inflatable Sneaker Concepts
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Earthy Sophisticated Lighting
Carmen Nash Designs the Folk and Flora Series for Troy Lighting
Eye-Catching Designer Rugs
The Drenthe Heath Rug by Claudy Jongstra is Unique and Pricy
70s-Inspired Plush Shag Rags
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Cross-Cultural Rug Collections
The Nordic Knots x Giancarlo Valle Rug Collection Merges Aesthetics
Stylish Modular Pet Beds
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Sexuality-Exploring Artful Exhibitions
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Pet-Friendly Seamless Furniture
Bink Rabbit Goods Delivers a Slew of Modern Furniture
Ultra-Comfy Seating Collections
FURN OBJECTS Designs a Cushy Lounge Chair and Pouf Set
Earth-Connecting Luxe Floor Installations
Hermès Designs a Captivating Installation at La Pelota
Textured Fluted Light Collections
Claudia Afshar Designs the Dekton Ukiyo Collection for Cosentino
Cork Furniture Collections
Guillaume Delvigne Crafts Cork Furniture Collection for Maison Matisse
Brick-Made Organic Soft Textiles
Natural Material Studio & Zuzanna Skurka Create Brick Textiles
Luxurious Hand-Knotted Rugs
Armadillo Launches Its Latest Rug Collection Mojave
Wool-Centric Contemporary Exhibitions
Formafantasma Debuts the Oltre Terra Exhibition in Oslo
Brutalist-Inspired Suburban Apartments
STUDIOTAMAT Designs the Casa Rude Residence in Rome
Customizable Home Decor Collections
The Conceptual 'Rebound' Furniture Collection is Modular
Pool Noodle-Inspired Furniture
Lieyah Dagan Designs the Loop Furniture for Indoor and Outdoor
Stylish Pet Pads
PUPIBOO's Pee Pads are Style-Conscious and Washable
Paper Mable-Made Tables
Bentley Home Creates a Table with Paper Factor and Frederico Peri
Immersive Urban Woodwork
Roguski Reimagines Urban Landscapes in Wooden Masterpieces
Renter-Friendly Wallpaper Collections
Otto Studio & Tierney Milne Created Peel-and-Stick Decor
Customizable All-Purpose Floor Mats
Letterfolk's Customizable Floor Mat are Playful and Chic
Mushroom-Inspired Luxe Rugs
JOV's New M-SHWY Collection is Designed by Studio Mary Lennox
Curvaceous Linoleum Furniture
The 'Linoleum' Furniture Collection by Lina Chi is Playful
Expansive Motion-Inspired Furniture Series
Eskayel's Forma Textile Series Explores Linear Shapes
Grid-Patterned Leather Footwear
Kiko Kostadinov Designs its New Zlatyu Sneaker Model
Sustainable Felt Furniture Collections
LAYER Designs the Vale Collection for KFI Studios
Minimalist Gradient Glass Desks
The in.water Concept by Nicola Morelli is a Metaphor for Pollution
Biotech Base Layers
These Bio-Based Base Layers are Made with Planet-Friendly Fabrics
Young-Artist Graphic Rug Collections
Alf Bärbel Wit Designs the LineLinesLines Collection
Craft-Inspired 3D-Printing Styles
Gareth Neal and The New Raw Create the Digitally Woven Series
Artistic Gen Alpha Rugs
Moooi Carpets Made Rugs Based on Art by Eight-Year-Old Alf Bärbel Wit
Geometric Colorful Rug Collections
MUT Design Creates the Giro Rug Collection for Gan
Patterned Luxe Progressive Doormats
Porte + Hall Designs the Outlier Doormat with Small Bristles
Ocean-Friendly Upholstery Textiles
The 'Sport' Textiles Are Crafted From Shoreline-Sourced Plastic
Asymmetric Linework-Based Furniture
Leah Ring Joins Another Human on the Doodle Collection
Plant-Based Resin Flooring
Senso Creates Sustainable Finishes for Floors and Walls
Pointed Foundation Coffee Tables
Donatas Žukauskas Designs a Distinctive New Coffee Table
Exquisite Textured Rug Designs
Jose a Gandía-Blasco Canale Designs the Chimos Rug for Gan
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Tomma Bloom and LiLi Tile Join Forces on a New Collection
Art Deco-Inspired Collaborative Rugs
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Dynamic Bold Graphic Rugs
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Collaborative Artful Patterned Lamps
Louis Poulsen and Fendi Casa Design Five New PH Lamps
Liquified Persian Textile Rugs
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Contemporary Modular Floor Lamps
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Rice Paper-Inspired Statuesque Lamps
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Repurposed Waste Transit Tiles
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Slithering Serpent Floor Coverings
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Spectral Painting-Inspired Furniture
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Woven Upholstery Textile Capsules
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Hand-Tufted Sculptural Wool Rugs
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Ancient Kilim-Inspired Rugs
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Upcycled Boucherouite Rug Series
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Hand-Tufted Artful Rug Series
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Chunky Knitted Quilted Chairs
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Dynamic Coffee Table Concepts
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Vibrantly Abstract Rug Collections
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Vibrantly Bold Wallpaper Collections
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Drawings-Inspired Rug Collections
Cold Picnic Introduces the New Frames Collection
Artful Various Rug Collections
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Colourfully Woven Bath Mats
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Vibrant Snake Graphic Rugs
Lorien Stern Designs the Snakes in the Grass Rug with Bright Accents
Comfortable Inclusive Carpet Tiles
Modulyss Introduces a Collection of Inclusive Carpet Tiles
Cardboard Box-Transformed Furniture
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Repurposed Furniture Design Exhibitions
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Life-Exploring Colorful Furniture
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Plastic Waste Textural Benches
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Versatile Remolded Linoleum Tiles
Dzek and Christien Meindertsma Join on the Flexwood Tiles
Color Block Table Accessories
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Celebratory Odd Designs
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Patterned Artisanal Hand-Tufted Rugs
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Recycled Plastic Felt Furniture
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Modular Protective Floor Mats
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Politically Artful Textile Shows
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Knitted New York Subways
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Opulent Area Rug Collections
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Flower-Inspired Vibrant Rugs
Laura Niubó Designs the Espressionismo Floreale Series
Digital-Themed Glitchy Visual Wallpapers
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