When ALine Studio begins any corridor design, we typically start with the carpet as the basis of the design. From there, the rest of the design elements are layered to create a cohesive look.
There are multiple ways that we can customize the carpet to best suit your building’s specific needs for your corridor remodel:
Carpet Pattern
The carpet pattern is where we set the overall style for your corridor design. With ALine’s ability to create custom carpets, we provide multiple different options from geometric, organic, to textural.
Project Reference: 345 East 52nd Street (Managed By: Halstead)
Geometric: Geometric carpets tend to set a more traditional or transitional tone. If you are interested in a geometric carpet for your corridor remodel, ALine will analyze your Corridor layout to determine if it would work logistically. Some Corridors have a lot of twists and turns or odd angles. For each of these turns the carpet pattern will need a carpet band to transition the carpet pattern.
Project Reference: Palm Beach Towers Florida
Organic: Organic carpets tend to have a lot of fluid movement, which is great for hiding a multitude of sins. The more movement/dynamic the pattern is, the longer it will look its best following your corridor remodel. Like geometric carpet, we need to take into account the transitions of your Corridors. For this, we have our carpet manufacturer create flooded floorplans to portray how the pattern will flow throughout the space.
Textural: For textural carpets ALine plays with subtle movement, pattern, and contrast to conceal any future wear and tear. Textural carpets are great in that they can transition around bends easily (depending on the texture).
Carpet Color
Project Reference: 111 Hicks Street (Managed By: Solstice Residential)
When it comes to customizing the color of your carpet for your corridor renovation through ALine the options are limitless. We work with our carpet manufacturers to select the carpet pom colors that best fit your buildings preferences including warm or cool tones or even a pop of color. When selecting poms, we will help ensure that there is enough contrast between the various poms to conceal any wear down the road.
Carpet Direction
As we all know, corridors in Condo’s/CoOp’s can be long. To help foreshorten the corridor we encourage our clients to have their carpet patterns flow from left to right. If the carpet pattern flowed in the other direction, it would create a bowling alley effect. It’s all a trick of the eye to make your corridor commute feel that much shorter!
Carpet Layout
Once we have finalized the carpet pattern and coloring of the carpet, we start exploring different ways of laying the carpet out within your corridor design. While the carpet can always flow throughout the corridor without any accents, there are multiple ways that your carpet can be laid out.
Project Reference: 205 West End Avenue (Managed By: AKAM)
Carpet Border: A carpet border is a band of more solid carpet, typically 4 to 6 inches wide, that runs along the perimeter of the walls. This design element is not only aesthetic but also practical. In most pre-existing buildings, walls are rarely perfectly straight. Borders help conceal these subtle irregularities—especially with structured or geometric patterns, where even a one-inch slope in a wall would otherwise cause the pattern to appear uneven as it gets cut off.
Project Reference: 205 East 22nd Street
(Managed By: Douglas Elliman Property Management)
Carpet Bands: While carpet bands can help with carpet transitions when a carpet changes directions at a turn, they can also help make your corridors feel shorter. By adding carpet bands sporadically throughout your corridors, it helps to visually shorten the corridor by breaking it down into more digestible segments.
Project Reference: 27-28 Thompson Avenue
(Managed By: First Service Residential)
Apartment Door Accents: Think of an apartment door accent as an integrated welcome mat. By creating a carpet accent at each apartment entry, we can establish a stronger sense of arrival for every unit. This can be achieved in different ways, from subtly using the background texture of the carpet pattern to introducing a completely different color at these locations.
Project Reference: 130 East 18th Street
(Managed By: Century Management)
Elevator Landing: The Elevator landing is the first thing someone will see as part of your Corridor design, so we typically like to differentiate the area to create a sense of arrival. While we do this through a few other tactics such as accent wallcovering, different lights, or an oversized mirror; it can also be done with the carpet.
Project Reference: 130 East 18th Street
(Managed By: Century Management)
Carpet Pattern Scale: The scale of the carpet pattern can be blown up to create an oversized version of your main carpet pattern just at the elevator landing.
When it comes to carpet for your corridor design, the options are limitless. While it may seem daunting, ALine will be right there by your side to help determine what is best suited for your specific corridor renovation needs.