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How good are you at visualizing a finished room from a collection of samples? If you find the process frustrating, this tip might make your decision easier – set the sample in the same position it will have once installed. For example, evaluate a carpet sample on the floor, not on a table or vertically on a display.

Why does this help? Well, how often do you look at your carpeting at table height? Placing a sample at the installation angle will enable you to see how the nap of a carpet or the curve of a tile looks on the floor. Color and tone can also look different with angle and distance. You want to position the sample so that you can more easily visualize the whole room.

Stand with your feet at the edge of the sample and look down, then step back a few feet and look across at the sample. This can be particularly helpful when selecting grout color for tile. Once you’ve done this with your final choices, you may very well find your decision is obvious. At the very least, you have more information for making your choice.

You can take the same approach for a kitchen or bath, although it’s a bit trickier. Get some friends to help you hold your samples at the right angles and distance from each other, then step back and look. You won’t have the whole picture, but you will be closer to it, making it easier to take those additional steps to visualizing the end result.

When you’re choosing flooring, narrowing down your choices and making the final decisions can be a real challenge. If you’re concerned about handling this process, let us provide you with a couple of steps to make deciding easier for you.

Studies show that people find it much more difficult to choose from among 30 choices than five or six. If you’re looking at more than six or eight options and it’s hard for you to narrow them down, you can use this next approach to trick your mind into looking at fewer options at a time. Take your final selections and separate them into sets of two. Then, looking only at one set a time; choose one of the two to keep in your stack. Have your salesperson run off with the other ones before you start second-guessing. By the time you finish, you will have cut the options you’re considering in half. Repeat as necessary until you only have three or four choices left.

If you’ve narrowed down your choices and are still having trouble, it’s time to try decision tactic number two – reverse decision making. Instead of picking the one you want, eliminate the one, or two, or three you don’t want. Of your final choices, one of them will stand out as the one you can’t eliminate. That’s your best choice.

Remember, all of your selections will look beautiful in your home. Don’t think of this as a source for stress but an opportunity for fun.

For part 1 this series, click here.