Why Carter Carpets & Vinyl


Carter Carpets & Vinyl is Locally Owned
Proud to Be Locally Owned

Carter Carpets & Vinyl is a locally owned & operated business. They have been proudly serving Monroe County since 1987. Being locally owned and operated, what does this mean to you?

Firsthand Knowledge

One of the most important aspects of being locally owned and operated is their firsthand knowledge of all the unique products that perform best in your region. They make it their passion to carry the finest products available in Temperance so they can provide you with expert advice on which product best fits your needs, lifestyle, and budget.

They stay current on pricing, availability, installation issues, and trends in the market place. Yes, you can try to find the right product on your own. However, wouldn’t it better to make one phone call and find the right solution? Being a qualified resource to you is the core mission of Carter Carpets & Vinyl's locally hired staff of experts. At Carter Carpets & Vinyl you’re sure to enjoy an unmatched level of personalized service that you won’t find at other stores.

Quality Reputation

Being locally owned Carter Carpets & Vinyl’s reputation is everything to their business. For 38 years, they have established themselves in the local community as a qualified and trusted resource. They have build trust with their clients, and from that relationship, they grow their business through referrals. Carter Carpets & Vinyl also partners with other quality businesses and associations in Temperance and support them in their efforts.

They Live in Monroe County

They are residents of Monroe County and are familiar with the wonderful lifestyle in Temperance and the surrounding communities. They dine at the same restaurants as you and play golf, tennis, and swim at similar clubs that you belong to. They attend the same cultural events as you do and participate in local charities and religious events. Their family and friends live in Temperance too. They understand why you enjoy this lifestyle and want to maintain it.


Welcome to Carter Carpets & Vinyl has the best selection
Best Selection

Carter Carpets & Vinyl offers a broad selection of products, styles, and colors with trendsetting designs. If you have not yet visited our showroom in Temperance, you're missing out on our wide variety of at prices you can afford. Not only will you be surrounded by the most beautiful product options in Michigan, but our team of design experts will also be there to assist you in making the very best selection for your lifestyle and budget.

Hard Surface - Hard surface floor coverings, which are laminate flooring, wood flooring, ceramic, porcelain, natural stone floors, are popular floor coverings for living areas and halls since they can handle the wear and tear of a busy family. We offer multiple selections from top brands such as Shaw Laminate Flooring, Mannington Charter Collection™, Teragren Bamboo Flooring, Armstrong Hardwood Flooring, Shaw Tile Flooring, Mohawk Ceramic Tile, Marazzi® USA Floor Tile , InterCeramic® USA Tile, guaranteeing, you will find the carpet that best suits your lifestyle needs.

Carpeting - Carpeting is still a very popular form of floor coverings in bedrooms and on stairs. It comes in a vast variety of styles: traditional cut-pile, looped berber, and cut & loop patterns and designs. Replacing your carpet is an easy and affordable way to update your home or office space. We offer multiple selections from top brands such as Karastan® Carpet, Kraus Carpet, Southwind® Carpets, Milliken Commercial Carpet, guaranteeing you will find the carpet that best suits your lifestyle needs.

Ceramic & Porcelain Tile - With its variety of materials and colors, tile offers many possibilities for creating your vision for a room. Besides, tile is very durable and easy to maintain. Durable, easy to maintain, and water-resistant, tile flooring offers several advantages for use in practically any room in your home and even outdoors. Choose from: Shaw Tile Flooring, Mohawk Ceramic Tile, Marazzi® USA Floor Tile , InterCeramic® USA Tile, and more.

Laminate Flooring - Offering the beautiful, authentic look of real wood, tile, or stone, easy-care laminates have emerged as one of today's most versatile flooring options. Laminate flooring is both sturdy and beautiful – flooring that resists fading, stains, scratches, and moisture. We carry some of the finest laminate flooring brands like: Shaw Laminate Flooring, Mannington Charter Collection™, Armstrong Laminate Flooring, Tarkett Home Laminate Flooring, among others.

Hardwood - Hardwood flooring is prized for its color, grain, and lasting beauty. Hardwood flooring enhances virtually any decor style with its variety of finishes. Casual or formal, modern or classic, hardwood flooring is right at home in any home. Hardwood flooring requires minimal care to maintain its good looks. Vacuum regularly and wipe weekly with a damp mop. If you are looking for new hardwood flooring from Teragren Bamboo Flooring, Armstrong Hardwood Flooring, Shaw Hardwood Flooring, Somerset Hardwood Flooring, call us. We have the best selection in Temperance, Michigan.

Luxury Vinyl Flooring - Luxury vinyl flooring provides an attractive and durable option for high traffic areas in your home. Today's luxury vinyl and waterproof flooring is one of the newest, most versatile, and high-performing flooring available. It offers the richness and texture of more expensive natural materials, such as hardwood, ceramic tile, and stone, without maxing out your budget. Choose from: Congoleum® DuraCeramic, and more.


Carter Carpets & Vinyl's Years of Service
Best Service

Carter Carpets & Vinyl is a locally owned & operated business, founded in 1987 with the goal of providing the best service around. We have been one of the leading providers of full-service equipment/tools, fabrics/bedding, flooring, plumbing fixtures, window treatments, windows/doors in Temperance, MI and surrounding areas for more than 38 years now. We are committed to providing the best service to meet your needs – satisfaction guaranteed. We are proud to stand behind any and all work that we do for you. You'll find a uncommon difference at Carter Carpets & Vinyl. We listen and provide complete satisfaction until your installation is complete.

EQUIPMENT/TOOLS, FABRICS/BEDDING, FLOORING, PLUMBING FIXTURES, WINDOW TREATMENTS, WINDOWS/DOORS – it’s what we do best. Our company is known for providing our customers with the best products from the LEADING brands in home improvement. Because you deserve more than just any brand for your home or office! We don't sell a single product that we wouldn't have installed in our own home or office.

Aside from equipment/tools, fabrics/bedding, flooring, plumbing fixtures, window treatments, windows/doors, we also offer installation and more.


Carter Carpets & Vinyl Provides Expert Advice
Expert Product Advice

When it’s time to choose a product for your home, there are many things to consider. Whether you’re looking for a product perfect for active families or a product that stands up to moisture, knowing, and understanding the different products and attributes available can help you narrow down the selection. The experts at Carter Carpets & Vinyl in Temperance can provide the information you need to understand the different types of materials and the installation process.

Flooring - No one type of flooring is ideal for every room, and inevitably, the floors in your home take a beating. It’s only a matter of time before they need to be replaced. Our flooring experts can help you understand the pros, cons, and costs of several popular types of flooring, as well as some ideas about where they can work best.

Window Treatments - For many, window treatments are an afterthought or entirely forgotten. However, they are a key design element that pulls a room together. Whether You're just aren’t sure how to incorporate them the right way or you’ve never given window treatments much thought, Carter Carpets & Vinyl can help you tackle the process from start to finish.

Dianna Carter at their store in Temperance can help you choose the right products that match your decor, lifestyle and budget.


Carter Carpets & Vinyl Professional Installation Services
Professional Installation

Carter Carpets & Vinyl will make sure every installation is handled with the utmost care and highest degree of craftsmanship.

  • best price and great service

Products We Carry

  • Adhesives
  • Area Rugs
  • Athletic Surfaces
  • Business Services
  • Carpeting
  • Ceramic/Porcelain
  • Cleaning/Care
  • Countertop/Surfaces
  • Cushion/Padding
  • Flooring Accessories
  • Installation Materials
  • Laminate Flooring
  • LVT/LVP
  • Mats/Runners
  • Paver/Quarry
  • Specialty Floors
  • Underlayment
  • Vinyl/Resilient
  • Walls
  • Wood Flooring

Products:


Adhesives, Below-Grade Adhesives, Carpet Adhesives, Ceramic Tile Adhesives, Cove Base Adhesives, Cushion-Back Carpet Adhesives, Indoor/Outdoor Carpet Adhesives, Laminate Floor Adhesives, Linoleum Adhesives, Multi-Purpose Adhesives, Pad Adhesives, Releasable (Pressure Sensitive), Resilient Floors Adhesives, Rubber Flooring Adhesives, Seam Adhesives, Stair Tread & Nosing Adhesives, Tackless Strip Adhesives, Wood Adhesives, and more.


Brands:


Franklin Adhesives, and more.

Products:


Animal Print / Wildlife Rugs, Area Rugs, Bath Rugs, Botanicals / Florals Rugs, Braided Rugs, Coir Rugs, Custom Rugs, Flat Woven Rugs, Hand-Carved Rugs, Hand-Made Rugs, Hand-Tufted Rugs, Hooked Rugs, Indoor-Outdoor Rugs, Jute Rugs, Kitchen Rugs, Leather Rugs, Machine Made Rugs, Modern / Contemporary Rugs, Motifs / Novelty Rugs, Natural Fiber Rugs, Oriental Rugs, Persian Rugs, Round Rugs, Rug Runners, Seagrass Rugs, Shag Rugs, Sisal Rugs, Throw / Scatter Rugs, Tibetan/Nepalese Rugs, Traditional Rugs, Wiltons Rugs, Wool Rugs, and more.


Brands:


Karastan® Rugs, Kathy Ireland™ Rugs, Masland Rugs, Mohawk Area Rugs, Safavieh Rugs, and more.

Products:


Basketball Court Surfaces, Synthetic Grass Surfaces, and more.


Brands:


Mondo® Commercial Flooring, and more.

Products:


Interior Design, and more.

Products:


Carpeting, Children/Juvenile Carpet, Commercial (Tufted), Commercial (Woven) Carpet, Commercial Carpet, Commercial Cut Pile, Commercial Cut Pile (Pattern), Commercial Cut Pile (Texture), Commercial Cut/Uncut, Commercial Cut/Uncut (Pattern), Commercial Cut/Uncut (Texture), Commercial Loop Pile, Commercial Loop Pile (Pattern), Commercial Loop Pile (Texture), Commercial Printed Carpet, Cushion Back Carpeting, Modular Carpet Tile, Needlepunch Carpets, Patterned Carpet, Recycled Carpet, Saxony (Plush) Carpet, Saxony (textured) Carpeting, Sculptured/Cut & Loop Carpet, Shag Carpet, Spike Resistant Carpet, Synthetic Turf, Wool Carpets, and more.


Brands:


Anderson-Tuftex Carpet, Caress Carpet by Shaw, Crossley Axminster, DH Floors Patterned Carpets, Fabrica Carpet, Flagship Carpets , Hagaman Carpet, Hibernia Wool Carpets, Interface® Carpet Tile, J+J Broadloom Flooring , Joy Commercial Carpets, Kane Carpet, Karastan® Carpet, Kraus Carpet, Kraus Contract Carpet, Laura Ashley Carpets, Mannington Commercial Carpet, Masland Carpet, Masland Contract Carpet, Milliken Commercial Carpet, Mohawk Carpet, Mohawk Commercial Flooring, Patcraft Commercial Carpet, Philadelphia™ Commercial Carpet, Philadelphia™ Commercial Carpet Tile, Prestige Carpet Mills, Queen Carpet, Rodeo Carpet Mills, Rosecore™ Carpet , Shaw Carpet, ShawMark Carpet, Southwind® Carpets, and more.

Products:


Borders/Medallions, Ceramic Tile, Decorative Tile, Floor Tile (glazed), Floor Tile (unglazed), Hard Surface Flooring, Kitchen Tile, Mexican Tile (Saltillo), Mosaic Tile, Mosaic Tile (glass), Murals, Porcelain Tile Flooring, Spa / Pool Tile, Terra Cotta Floor Tile, and more.


Brands:


Crossville Porcelain Tile, Florida Tile, Genesee Ceramic Tile, InterCeramic® USA Tile, LAUFEN Tile, Marazzi® USA Floor Tile , Mohawk Ceramic Tile, Olympia Tile, Shaw Tile Flooring, and more.

Products:


Cleansers (ceramic tile), Cleansers (grout), Cleansers (vinyl floor), Cleansers (wood floor), Floor Protection (disc pads), Floor Protection (runners), Polish/Wax, and more.


Brands:


Aqua Mix Tile & Stone Care, Capture Cleaner, and more.

Products:


Laminate Countertops, Quartz Countertops, and more.


Brands:


Teragren Bamboo Surfaces, and more.

Products:


Combination, Cushion/Padding, Double Glue, Rubber, Synthetic Fiber, Urethane, and more.


Brands:


Healthier Choice Carpet Cushion®, Leggett & Platt Cushion, Scottdel Cushion, Tred-MOR Carpet Cushion, and more.

Products:


Borders - Carpet/Rug, Carpet Accessories, Ceramic Accessories, Dividers (brass/zinc), Flooring Tools, Laminate Accessories, Moulding (laminate), Moulding (wood), Rug Accessories, Shower/Pans/Liners/Drains, Stair Rods, Stair Treads/Nosing (metal), Stair Treads/Nosing (rubber), Stair Treads/Nosing (vinyl), Tile Trims, Trim (metal), Trim (rubber), and more.

Products:


Grouts (additives), Grouts (ceramic tile), Grouts (granite), Grouts (latex), Grouts (marble), Grouts (quarry tile), Grouts (release), Grouts (sealers), Grouts (slate), Installation Materials, Mortars (thin set), and more.


Brands:


Ardex Surfaces, Henry® Adhesives, LATICRETE® , MAPEI Flooring Adhesives, and more.

Products:


Laminate Plank Flooring , Laminate Tile Flooring, and more.


Brands:


Mannington Charter Collection™, Mohawk RevWood Laminate , Quick•Step Laminate Flooring, Shaw Laminate Flooring, Swiss Krono, Tarkett Home Laminate Flooring, and more.

Products:


Luxury Vinyl Sheet Flooring, Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT), and more.


Brands:


Aladdin Commercial Hard Surface, Congoleum® DuraCeramic, COREtec® Original, Mannington Adura® Flooring, NAFCO Luxury Tile, NovaCore™, Philadelphia™ Commercial Luxury Vinyl, and more.

Products:


Mats/Runners, Runners (carpet), Runners (vinyl), Safety Mats, Speciality Mats, and more.

Products:


Paver/Quarry Tile, Quarry Tile (chemical resistant), Quarry Tile (glazed), and more.

Products:


Specialty Floors, and more.


Brands:


Forbo Flooring, VPI Resilient Flooring, and more.

Products:


Underlayment, and more.


Brands:


Multiply Underlayment, and more.

Products:


Cove Base (rubber), Cove Base (vinyl), Cushioned Vinyl Flooring, Homogeneous Vinyl Floors, Inlaid Vinyl (sheet) Flooring, Inlaid Vinyl Tile, Linoleum Flooring, Resilient Flooring Insets, Resilient/Vinyl Flooring, Rubber Flooring, Rubber Sheet Flooring, Rubber Tile Floors, Sheet Vinyl Flooring, Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT), and more.


Brands:


Congoleum® Vinyl Flooring, Interface® Resilient Flooring, IVC Vinyl Flooring, Johnsonite® Commerical Flooring, Mannington Resilient Vinyl Flooring, Tarkett Commercial Resilient Flooring, and more.

Products:


Wall Tile (unglazed), and more.

Products:


Bamboo Flooring, Borders/Accents, Cork Flooring, Cork Plank Flooring, Cork Sheet Flooring, Cork Tile Flooring, Crests/Medallions, Custom Wood Floors, Distressed Wood Flooring, Engineered Hardwood Flooring, Engineered Longstrip Flooring, Engineered Parquet Flooring, Engineered Plank Flooring, Exotic Hardwood Flooring, Hand Scraped Wood Floors, Hardwood Plank Flooring, Hardwood Strip Flooring, Parquet Flooring, Parquet Flooring, Prefinished Engineered Parquet, Prefinished Engineered Plank, Prefinished Solid Parquet Flooring, Prefinished Solid Plank Flooring, Prefinished Strip Flooring, Random Width Plank Flooring, Solid Hardwood Flooring, Solid Plank Flooring, Trims/Moldings, Wide Plank Flooring, Wood Flooring, Wood Tile, and more.


Brands:


Anderson-Tuftex Hardwood, Casabella® Hardwood Flooring, Hartco® Hardwood Flooring, Kährs Hardwood Flooring, Lauzon Hardwood Flooring, Mohawk Hardwood Flooring, QU-Cork Flooring, Robbins Hardwood Flooring, Shaw Hardwood Flooring, Somerset Hardwood Flooring, Teragren Bamboo Flooring, Triangulo Exotic Hardwood Flooring , Vintage Prefinished Hardwood Flooring, WECork Flooring, Zickgraf Hardwood Flooring, and more.