Soma is the middle grey of the Westminster range: a clean mid neutral carrying just enough warmth to stop the floor reading cold. That small amount of warmth is the whole point of it. Set it beside Deft, which is...

Dazzle is the outlier of the Baltimore range and, by some distance, the most distinctive carpet in this catalogue. Where the other seven colours are quiet two-tone mottles in grey, sand and charcoal, Dazzle is a deep navy ground shot...

Dreamy is a true black and the darkest colour Sumptuous offers. Where Spell Bound retains a trace of charcoal and Whisper is clearly a dark grey, Dreamy has no grey left in it at all. It is the absolute end...

Spell Bound is a very dark, near-black charcoal, deeper than Whisper, which still reads as a charcoal grey, and just short of Dreamy, which is a true black. It keeps the faintest amount of grey in it, enough that in...

English Toffee is the only genuinely brown colour in Sumptuous: a warm mid brown with a true toffee tone to it, caramel rather than chocolate and with none of the grey that neutralises the rest of the palette. Elite, the...

Read the swatch, not the name: Whisper is a dark cool charcoal-grey. It is one of the deepest colours in Sumptuous, a long way from the pale, barely-there tone the name implies, and it is easily the most misjudged colour...

Platinum is a mid cool grey with a brown undertone running underneath it, which is what stops it from being the flat, hard grey that the name suggests. It is the grey for people who want a grey floor but...

Elite is a mid warm taupe-brown, and the easiest way to place it is against Luxe: same family, but Elite is darker and distinctly warmer, with more brown pulled through the taupe. Where Luxe reads mushroom, Elite reads soft earth....

Luxe is a mid warm mushroom-taupe: the colour of a raw linen curtain or a dried mushroom cap, with more brown in it than Cloud Nine and less than Elite. It is the true middle of the Sumptuous neutrals: warm...

Despite the name, Cloud Nine is not a pale colour. It is a mid warm grey-taupe: a good deal deeper than Pearl or Porcelain, and comfortably in the middle of the Sumptuous range rather than at the light end of...

Porcelain is the coolest pale colour in Sumptuous: a light grey with a distinct green cast, closer to a pale stone or sea glass than to a warm cream. That green is what separates it from Pearl, which is a...

Pearl is a light warm greige: the pale end of Sumptuous, sitting a clear step above Royal Beige in lightness while keeping the same warm undertone rather than going grey. Put the two side by side and Pearl is the...

Royal Beige is a warm mid sand-beige with a faint pink cast to it: soft rather than yellow, and warmer on the floor than most beiges photograph. It is a mid tone, noticeably deeper than Pearl, which is the paler...

Carbonite is the darkest colour in Baltimore: a near-black charcoal lifted by a grey fleck running through the mottled pattern, which stops it from becoming the flat black hole that solid dark carpet can be. Compared with Graphene it is...

Graphene is a dark charcoal-grey, mottled through with Baltimore's two-tone fleck so that it reads as a textured dark floor rather than a solid slab of charcoal. It is a clear step darker than Dolomite while staying recognisably grey: where...

Dolomite is Baltimore's mid cool grey, and it is the highest-contrast of the greys in the range. The two-tone speckle reads more strongly here than it does in the paler colours, so the mottled pattern is visibly part of the...

Dune is a warm mid taupe-brown, a proper mid tone, not a pale, with Baltimore's mottled speckle giving it depth and movement across a floor. It is the natural step up from Sandstone: same warm family, but darker and browner,...

Chalk is the palest colour Baltimore offers: a light, clean, cool grey with the range's fine two-tone speckle preventing it from looking like a flat sheet of paint. It is cooler than Sandstone, which is the warm pale in the...

Sandstone is the warmest of the pale colours in Baltimore: a sand-beige with the range's mottled two-tone fleck lifting it, so it looks like weathered stone rather than flat cream. Put it beside Chalk and the difference is obvious: Chalk...

Marble sits at the cool, faintly sage end of the Baltimore palette: a soft grey with a green undertone, shot through with the range's two-tone speckle so it never reads as a flat block of colour. Next to Chalk it...

Tact is the darkest colour Belgotex offer in the Westminster range, a true near-black with no grey softening it and no warmth behind it. Sensor, its closest neighbour, keeps just enough charcoal to read as a very deep grey in...

Sensor is a near-black charcoal, and the distinction between it and Tact is small but worth understanding before you choose. Tact is the true near-black of the Westminster range, the darkest colour in it; Sensor stops just short, holding enough...

Palpate is a very dark warm charcoal-brown, and the brown is the whole point of it. It is the only near-black in the Westminster range that leans warm, which makes it the one to specify when Sensor and Tact look...

Dwell is a deep navy blue, and it is a real navy rather than a charcoal that happens to lean cool. Set it beside Kinect, which is a dark slate charcoal with a blue cast, and the difference is immediate:...