Simon Houlding Upholstery
Cool French Grey carpet swatch with dense short pile and fine tonal flecking Cormar

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French Grey

Primo Ultra Carpet

French Grey reads as a cool, balanced mid-grey across the Primo Ultra swatch. Its dense surface is flecked with fine pale and darker grey fibres, giving the colour gentle movement rather than a flat, solid block.

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About this carpet

The French Grey swatch has a cool mid-grey ground with fine tonal flecks throughout, creating a softly mottled appearance. Its close, short pile forms a compact surface with subtle texture, while the small variations in fibre tone add restrained depth. Catalogued as Carpet, Primo Ultra is listed in the Easy Clean category. The understated contrast keeps this colourway calm and tailored, with the surface texture becoming more apparent as the light shifts.

How to use it

Use this cool French Grey where a quiet, balanced neutral is needed, particularly alongside crisp whites, pale woods or other blue-grey tones. The fine flecking adds enough visual depth to prevent the carpet from reading as completely flat.

The cool grey flecking gives this dense carpet a quietly tailored, easy-to-coordinate finish.

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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.

To sit quietly behind it

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