Simon Houlding Upholstery
Dark charcoal-grey carpet with fine black and grey peppered flecks and dense texture Cormar

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Nigella

Apollo Plus Carpet

Nigella has a deep charcoal-grey appearance, softened by a dense scatter of lighter grey and black flecks across the surface. The close texture gives the colour a subtly varied, tactile depth rather than a flat, solid look.

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About this carpet

This Apollo Plus carpet reads as a dark charcoal grey with a fine pepper-and-salt effect, where pale flecks gently lift the otherwise near-black ground. Its closely textured surface creates a softly mottled appearance that disguises visual variation and gives the shade a grounded, understated character. Nigella is listed in the Easy Clean category, making this specific dark colourway a practical option where everyday marks need to be less visually prominent. The overall impression is composed and contemporary, with texture providing more interest than overt pattern.

How to use it

Use Nigella to anchor a room with pale walls, warm timber or brushed metal, allowing its charcoal depth to provide contrast without introducing a strong colour. Its small-scale peppering also works well alongside plain upholstery and softly patterned accessories.

The dark charcoal-grey ground and fine peppering make this a practical, quietly smart choice for contemporary interiors.

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Nigella is a quiet cloth, so it carries a pattern beside it: one of these on the curtains and this on the chair. Mixed across the houses we hold, which is the part a single supplier's book cannot do.

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Two ways to take the room. Both colours are from houses we hold, so a pot can come off the same order as the cloth. Screens shift colour, so treat these as a direction and bring the cloth to the shelf before you buy the paint.

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