Specialties

Karndean supply homes and businesses with Designflooring, floors that are stunning to look at yet easy to look after. When you visit our Showroom, you can expect to see the latest products on display, over 500m2 of ideas and designs, design tables for you to try out your own design ideas, friendly advice from our product advisors, full sized free samples to take home, a relaxed, no pressure environment.

History

Established in 1973.

It all started in the summer of '73 when young entrepreneur Michael (Mike) Walker began looking for a way to make it on his own. Although successful, he quickly became bored with selling other peoples' designs, and in a moment of inspiration, decided it was time to introduce something completely new and different to the vinyl flooring industry. In 1992 Karndean moved out of Mike's trunk and into a little black-and-white house in Offenham, United Kingdom. The Karndean team worked out of that house for several years with only a handful of employees and the family's trusty dog, Smokey. In the 90's, Mike's daughter Fleur took over the reins of the business with her brother Chris out on the road selling. Building relationships with flooring retailers around the UK who were just as excited as they were to welcome this new customizable flooring product, these were the founding years of our company.