Fun on the Floor

Craft queen, interior designer and busy mum, Daniel Proud is on a mission to carpet the nation's homes with Funonthefloor.com – an inspirational guide to today's modern carpets.

TAKE TO THE FLOOR

A thoroughly good-looking and well-thought out website, Funonthefloor.com combines modernity and originality with a comprehensive blend of interactive features, useful information, interesting extras and first class photography. Encouraging us to all take to the floor, the Living with Carpet section covers Work, Play, Relax, Exercise and Read, showcasing a variety of sumptuous textures, colours and fibres, which persuade us to do just that. Meanwhile, learn all about this type of flooring in the All About Carpets section where topics such as Fibres & Styles, Benefits, Carpet Care, Planning & Fitting are covered with a Carpet Calculator thrown in for good measure.

CARPET CORNUCOPIA

Although the site doesn't sell carpets directly, you can use its Look Book to choose different styles, colours and patterns, creating your own design portfolio, which you can then print off and take to a showroom. You can find a store local to you via its Store Locator, which allows you to search via postcode or town to find a list of your nearest carpet shops. As if the aspirational photography and evident enthusiasm of Danielle Proud wasn't enough to persuade you of the merits of a good quality carpet, you can browse a number of testimonials in the I Love My Carpet section, where members of the public give glowing reports on how carpet has changed the look and feel of their own homes.

SOMETHING TO BE PROUD OF

Danielle herself was raised in such as way that could only have resulted in her becoming a first-class homemaker: her mother taught her patchwork, needlework and stencilling, while her father restored furniture in his spare time. Watch out for the Fun House in which visitors to the site will soon be able to view her interior design work on a Georgian townhouse interior and the see for themselves the transformative power of the carpet!