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What is the best flooring for commercial offices or retail stores?

  • Teneille Tierce and Christy Lesseig

Published July 2023 | Updated April 2025

Commercial offices and retail stores require a durable floor covering that enhances the aesthetics of the space, is easy to maintain, and helps reduce noise levels.  With so many options available today, let us help you narrow it down. In this post, we discuss the best flooring options based on location and by material.

Table of Contents
  • Retail Store Carpet
  • Commercial Office Carpet
  • Hotel Room Carpet
  • Natural Fiber Carpets: Sisal, Coir, & Wool
  • Synthetic Carpets: Nylon, Polypropylene, Recycled PET & Woven Vinyl

Retail Store Carpet

retail store flooring
natural fiber or natural-look rugs in retail settings: contract coir in natural, astoria in light honey, and winthrop in honey

The level of foot traffic and wear and tear a retail store encounters will vary depending on physical location and, honestly, how busy it is. A carpet with a light to medium contract rating might be perfect for a boutique dress shop, but a book store in a downtown, urban location might fare better with a moderate to heavy contract carpet.

Based on traffic levels, look for:

  • Light, moderate or heavy contract durability ratings
  • Natural fibers like sisal, stain-resistant sisal, or coir
  • Synthetics like nylon, polypropylene, PET or woven vinyl
  • Aesthetics are important and must complement overall design scheme
  • Moderately to easy to clean 

From high-traffic retail spaces to bespoke shops, designers rely on our expertise to create stunning, high-performance interiors. Explore our Retail Store Design Projects for real-world case studies and design inspiration.

Commercial Office Carpet

office options: sisal tile, tretford® roll, synsisal® langley or flexibel™ cover vario

As with retail stores, a commercial office may be small with only a handful of employees and visitors, or it could be a corporate headquarters with steady traffic. 

Based on traffic levels, look for:

  • Light, moderate or heavy contract durability ratings
  • Natural fibers like sisal, sisal tiles, stain-resistant sisal, or coir
  • Synthetics like nylon, polypropylene, PET or woven vinyl
  • Moderately to easy to clean
synsisal® is crafted from virgin-quality, recycled ECONYL® yarns for a sustainable, contract-grade option for design-minded spaces

Hotel Room Carpet

commercial wall-to-wall carpet in hotel rooms: bowen in grain and medina in cedar

Because hotel rooms experience ongoing wear and tear from all walks of life, high durability and easy cleanability are paramount when selecting carpet for hotel rooms and corridors. Also, a comfortable, design-forward carpet leaves a lasting impression.

Consider:

  • Moderate or heavy contract durability ratings
  • Synthetics like nylon, PET or polypropylene with a “soft” feel
  • Aesthetics that complement hotel’s overall design scheme
  • Comfort, both softness underfoot and noise reduction in corridors
  • Easy to clean 

SynSisal® Rugs at The Pinch Hotel

Discover why the design team behind The Pinch Hotel, located in the heart of historic Charleston, South Carolina, decided SynSisal® was the right weave for this unforgettable hotel.

Case Study – The PINch hotel

Natural Fiber Carpets: Sisal, Coir, & Wool

contract coir in natural
blakely in jasper
sisal tile in smoke
vashon in gray

If you are considering a natural look, there are many natural fiber carpets that are durable and carry commercial ratings. A stain-resistant sisal from our SisalPLUS collection offers classic sisal constructions, like bouclé or tiger-eye, woven from the most stain-resistant sisal yarns available on the market. The almost indestructible Contract Coir or Poona has a darker, neutral tone that can hide stains and is ready for heavy traffic.

tretford®’s roll broadloom carpet: colorful and durable options for commercial offices

For a more colorful option, tretford® Roll is available in a stunning array of colors. Plus, this goat wool blend is excellent for sound absorption and thermal regulation. Goat hair is naturally durable and tretford® Roll’s fusion-bonding makes it extremely durable. The unique rib construction also helps keep this carpet looking sharp—spills are less likely to become embedded in the fibers, making it easy to clean. 

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Synthetic Carpets: Nylon, Polypropylene, Recycled PET & Woven Vinyl

astoria in honey
bowen in grain
maya wave in coconut
synthesis in pure

It is hard to beat synthetic materials with their overall durability, stain-resistance, range of colors and design options. Hence, most commercial carpet is made from synthetics like nylon or polypropylene, or a blend of materials. In general, the yarns in a commercial carpet are solution-dyed, colorfast, UV-resistant, and mold and mildew resistant. 

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See the story of SynSisal® & discover the benefits of this innovative, contract-grade carpet.

Nylon has been the gold standard for commercial carpeting, but there is a new material on the block that is creating excitement: ECONYL®. ECONYL® has all the credentials that nylon carries (durable, easy to clean, etc) but with an added sustainability story: ECONYL® is a regenerated nylon manufactured from fishing nets and other post-consumer waste. Our exclusive SynSisal® collection is the first synthetic sisal carpet to be made with ECONYL® yarns and is a perfect choice for commercial spaces of all kinds.

GLOBAL ACCOLADES: iF DESIGN AWARD 2025

SynSisal® stood out among 11,000 entries and has been honored with the prestigious iF DESIGN AWARD 2025 in the Textile/Wall/Floor category. This globally renowned award is a seal of quality for outstanding design and design quality.

Contract grade polypropylene is another excellent carpet choice for hotel rooms, retail stores, or offices. Polypropylene carpets have soft fibers, many colorful options, and depending on the backing, can be used outdoors. Bowen or Perth from the Terasa collection offer a versatile, stylish commercial outdoor rug option. 

If your commercial space will see a lot of moisture or mud, a woven vinyl carpet might fit the bill. Incredibly easy to clean, woven vinyl is impervious to moisture and highly durable, making it a great candidate for pool areas, locker rooms, spas, exercise facilities, laundry rooms, and entry ways.

For a sustainable, outdoor-friendly option, recycled PET polyester is a waterproof, soft, contact-rated option. The Rols Collection from Spain offers rugs with beautiful design and colorful options for commercial spaces.

Check out our Commercial and Hospitality page for more posts about choosing the right commercial carpet. More questions? Our customer service team is always happy to help.

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German-engineered for commercial spaces, FLEXIBEL™ offers tiles, planks and broadloom rolls in flexible formats and styles for efficient, low-VOC installation.

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Teneille Tierce
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Teneille Tierce is a contributing writer for Curran and sisalcarpet.com.

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Christy Lesseig
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Christy is the Flooring Content Specialist at Curran and sisalcarpet.com. She writes about flooring products with a focus on design and sustainability. For 5 years, her blog posts, technical guides, and product descriptions have led customers along the path from purchasing to maintaining their flooring investments. Her favorite natural flooring? A sisal rug, of course.

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2 comments
  1. Uwe Freyer says:
    February 2023 at 1:29 pm

    Hello Customer Service, I hope you can help me/us for a restaurant at a Marriott property we are looking for a sisal type carpet in a taupe shade. The requirements from Marriott are strict and we need to find a material that is contract quality and can also be wet cleaned-shampooed as this seems their preferred maintenance process. I would like to send you an image when you respond for color reference it is a taupe grey if we find a different weave or texture that would be ok.

    Might you have anything that could be used in your collections?

    This is a project for

    Schoos Design

    302 N Martel Ave

    Los Angeles

    CA 90036

    Thank you very much for your assistance, I look forward to hearing back from you. Uwe

    1. Christy Lesseig says:
      February 2023 at 4:06 pm

      Thank you, Uwe, for reaching out to us. I trust that we will have a product that is ideal for your situation. I have shared this request with our customer service team and someone will be reaching out to you directly.
      Best,
      Christy

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