Where to find shag carpet that you can use wall to wall in hour home? Currently there are two sources for shag that I know of.
Where to find shag rugs and wall-to-wall carpet
Sansom Shag Rugs:
Sansom Shag Rugs — For shag carpet that you can really did your toes into, check out Sansom Shag Rugs. Based in Texas and with manufacturing in Georgia, this small company specializes in deep-pile shag carpeting: “3 Inch Amazing Thick, Tufted, Luxurious True Shag Rug,” they say. They also have some shorter shags.
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Photo courtesy Sansom Shag Rugs — Black-and-Blue shag. What a wonderful bed room!
Sansom has dozens of colors to choose from — including retro classics like burnt orange, gold, lipstick red, and groovy shades of green. And, they even have multicolors. You can order custom rug according to the size or shape you want, or you can order yardage to install wall-to-wall.
Kane Carpet:
Kane Carpet’s Shagtacular collection has 30 different designs/patterns of shag carpet. Most of the colors are neutral, but there are few colors in there, like the Candy Cane line with its Passion Pink, Green Apple, Orange Slice, and Peppermint. I also really dig the Canpana, with its striped Rust, Olive, Plum, Denim, and Tray colorways.
Searching around the internet, it seems that the pile depths from Kane varies from 1.5′ to 2″; check specs with Kane or your local retailer. Looks like you can buy this as yardage for wall-to-wall installations, or you can ask your local retailer to bind you a rug.
Anyone else suddenly feeling the need to find a room for some flower power shag carpeting?
Tut says
I’d totally do shag, especially the sculptured stuff like that brown sample underneath everything in that top photo. We had an area rug of medium-long shag in orange/pink/purple, kinda like that small sample on the left of that photo. That blue/green is totally cool, as is the extra-long moss green.
The Shaw stuff doesn’t really look all that shaggy. Maybe it’s just the sample photos and the fake images that shows it in that bedroom.
Roundhouse Sarah says
Love it! But you guys already know that ; )
It’s so soft and cozy in my sunken living room. It is a bit more expensive as far as carpet goes but if you want bold colors I guess it’s the price we have to pay. Plus I had to buy soo much more than I needed since the room is round and of course they only sell squares…
Also readers, please note that ‘poisoned apple’ is much more of a chartreuse than it is avocado green. Always order samples.
tammyCA says
I’m remembering now my childhood friend’s bedroom was red/pink shag carpeting…the whole room painted furniture, walls everything was done in reds and pinks (even a red t.v. set)…like a valentine room. I thought it was so cool!
Kim Campbell says
We had the red. My folks remodeled the basement with black leather furniture, wrought iron, cork wall, and spanish type accessories.
Kay D says
My parents built in 1971. Gold shag in the living and one bedroom, red/ black combo in another, and almost a bright blue in the master! We had one of those rakes. I am thinking it might have come Fuller Brush?? Mom also adored her Kirby vacuum, in spite of it’s weight.
John in Jax says
LOVE. that is all
hannah says
My ex’s Uncle (in-law) invented the shag rug rake. *hand to heart* <3
I figure a good compromise (if you have pets and, umm, potential upchucking issues) if you're kitsch enough – do a WALL in shag carpeting!
pam kueber says
Wow. That sounds like some story indeed! Send me an email – can you share more?
Barb S. says
Hannah, yes, great idea!! I was lucky to get some long shag a few years ago – blood red… and I cut it up into squares and made a checkerboard wall with carpet & mirrors. It looks so cool!!!
hannah says
Hi Pam,
I really don’t have much more of a story. It was just a comment my ex made while we were driving over to their house for a family gathering. This was back in the late 70’s or sometime in the 80s. My ex and I split in 1990 – and I’ve not spoken with him in about 14 years.
Now, interestingly enough, I just did a Google search on their names, and the city I know they lived in then. Their first names (Mort & Treva) are unique, and tied together via the address that came up for both of them. Seems they’re both still alive, and must be in their 80’s + by now. I haven’t talked to them for 30 years, so I’d have to have a few cocktails under my belt if I dared to call them. 🙂
I did try some searches on the shag rake + his name in different combinations, and nothing comes up.
Kelly Wittenauer says
When I was a child in 1969, my family took a vacation to Florida. One of the hotel rooms we stayed in had shag carpet on the floor, that continued up one wall. There was also a large window with electric push-button operated draperies. Very groovy to an eight year old.
Jennifer Kepesh says
Typo in the carpet color name: should be lightning, not lightening.
Scott says
This is GREAT news. I grew up with living room, hallway, and staircase dressed in avacado shag and it really makes me nostalgic.
I’m currently pinch hitting with some smallish IKEA shag rugs but for the most part the colors weren’t quite what I wanted. This new range has everything I’d been dreaming off, a true avacado, orange, and even a few kicky combinations I’d not even thought of.
I have hardwood floors but the chance to spec out custom room size rugs in the colors I wanted is something I’ve been dreaming about. My dogs love the shag rugs too I love how I don’t have to always be worried as the shag is so forgiving.
I’m just thrilled to see this.
Mary Joan Florence says
I grew up in the 70’s and part of the 80’s in a split-level suburban home with blue-green shag carpeting in the lower level. And yes, we raked it.
Mary Elizabeth says
I think when you ran the interview with Emily Morrow I told this story: but there are new people on the site every day, so here goes, newbies:
The larger gold/brown,orange/white sample at the bottom of the photo at the top of this story shows the same carpet that was installed in the basement stairway and the play room of the condo I lived in for almost 30 years–it was built in 1978. I used to call the color “Orange Tabby,” because we had a wonderful easygoing cat of that coloring, Pocket, who would go down into the basement and virtually disappear into the carpet. We had to be careful walking down stairs, too, because he might be asleep on one of the stairs and we wouldn’t see him. Also, since Pocket’s hair balls were the same combination of color, when he upchucked one we wouldn’t see it and step in it. But a little spritz of carpet cleaner took care of that. It never showed stains from anything the cats or the children did down there, but we would steam clean it once a year or so to remove the dirt.
It was cheerful and soft for the kids to lie on while reading, playing, or watching TV, but it did go out of fashion almost as soon as it was installed. My husband tore it out after the last child left home and replaced it with a blue-gray carpet similar to Doug’s. Sad, but looking at it always reminded me of our by-then-deceased Pocket, so taking it out was bitter-sweet.