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Years of Service


Searching for a trusted flooring store in Carmel with a proven track record? Downing Flooring & Design Inc has over 47 years of experience serving homeowners and businesses in Carmel, Indiana, and surrounding communities. Since 1978, we've built a reputation for reliable service, expert flooring advice, and quality installation. With nearly half of Hamilton County companies closing within five years, our longevity shows we're here to stay-before, during, and after the sale.

Friendly Experts in Carmel


Whether you need a new area rugs or carpeting or ceramic/porcelain or cleaning/care, our knowledgeable and friendly flooring experts are here to help you find the perfect floor for your lifestyle, home decor, and budget. We will consider the area to be decorated, the type of traffic (Kids? Pets?), lighting, colors, and other factors to create a stunning decor. Come and visit our Carmel showroom at 411 North Rangeline Road to see, touch and feel the latest styles!

Great Selection


Downing Flooring & Design Inc has a wide selection of the highest quality products, including: area rugs, carpeting, ceramic/porcelain, cleaning/care, countertop/surfaces, installation materials, laminate flooring, lvt/lvp, paints/coatings, sealers/finishes, specialty floors, underlayment, vinyl/resilient, waterproof flooring, wood flooring, that can put the perfect finishing touch on any room. Conveniently located in Carmel, Downing Flooring & Design Inc has an experienced and knowledgeable staff who will help you through every stage of selecting the right product for your home or office.

Some of the more popular brands we carry are: DalTile® Countertops, Caress Carpet by Shaw, Mirage Glass Tiles , Sherwin Williams Paints, Capri Cork Flooring, Patcraft Commercial Resilient, among others. Regardless of the brand you choose, Downing Flooring & Design Inc is dedicated to getting the job done right.

High-end flooring is made with greater care, finer materials and/or a greater emphasis on design. Treat your home to a little luxury with our beautiful designer flooring brands, including: Kane Carpet, Karndean Waterproof Flooring, and other fine flooring.

Our Services


Our company offers a variety of services designed to meet diverse needs. These include: Job-Site Wood Refinishing, Whatever your digital needs may be, we have you covered.

Fast and Easy Financing

Looking for budget-friendly financing for your next home related purchase? It's easy. If you have a large purchase to make, Downing Flooring & Design Inc can assist you in finding financing solutions that can fit it into your budget. We have partnered with trusted financial institutions that can help you plan your purchases and manage your payments. Subject to credit approval. Minimum monthly payments required. See store for details.

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Brands We Carry

Trusted Name, Proven Quality



Our selection of area rugs offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.



We offer a vast selection of carpet consisting of various textures, colors, and styles. With so many options, you are sure to find the right carpet to solidify your home's interior and reflect your personal tastes.
Anderson-Tuftex Carpet - Carmel IN
Anderson-Tuftex Carpet
We craft products designed with the ideals of our customers in mind and then match them to their perfect home. We sell craftsmanship and timeless design principles. We sell simplicity and quality, purpose, refinement and comfort. We sell natural beauty that doesn’t fade.
Shaw Contract Flooring - Carmel IN
Shaw Contract Flooring
A part of Shaw Specified Commercial, Shaw Contract features broadloom products designed for evolving corporate environments.
Patcraft Commercial Carpet - Carmel IN
Patcraft Commercial Carpet
Patcraft is recognized throughout the carpet industry as aleader in innovative design with a tradtion of integrity and superior service for more than 50 years. We design flooring for the human experience. Creating spaces for people with purpose, imagination + intention. Transforming space for positive impact.
Philadelphia™ Commercial Carpet - Carmel IN
Philadelphia™ Commercial Carpet
Philadelphia Carpets is Shaw's oldest and broadest product line. Philadelphia offers a broad selection of carpets designed for today's busy lifestyles that are both beautiful and affordable.
Kane Carpet - Carmel IN
Kane Carpet
We proudly offer a wide array of carpet styles and patterns that will delight the mid to high-end client at the most competitive prices. With an extensive collection of traditional and contemporary in-stock woven patterns and a complete, low minimum yardage custom weaving program, Kane Carpet is the best choice.
ShawMark Carpet - Carmel IN
ShawMark Carpet
ShawMark is sold exclusively through wholesale distributors throughout the country who sell the line to retailers. ShawMark features the "Anything Goes!" line of carpets, a high-performance collection noted for enduring extraordinary "torture tests."
Shaw Carpet - Carmel IN
Shaw Carpet
Like you, Shaw Floors is passionate about creating beautiful homes founded on innovative design and lasting function. We know that a beautiful room doesn’t happen by accident. Shaw offers more than 25,000 carpet styles and colors. That means your ultimate carpet choices will always reflect your own, unique vision.
Home Foundations - Carmel IN
Home Foundations
Home Foundations, marketed to the new home market, includes products especially suited for builders and new homeowners.
Mannington Commercial Carpet - Carmel IN
Mannington Commercial Carpet
Mannington commercial flooring has been recognized as a leader in product innovation, styling, and design, as well as in operational excellence and environmental stewardship. With industry-leading fiber systems and superior manufacturing, our vast array of carpet styles look better and last up to 75% longer than any other carpet in the marketplace.
Caress Carpet by Shaw - Carmel IN
Caress Carpet by Shaw
Caress is backed by Shaw Floors 20-year warranty with stairs included, offering lifetime stain & soil protection, including all pet stains. Caress has been reimagined to offer the best in style and design. All the softness you love...now in your carpet.



Our selection of ceramic tile flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.
American Olean® Tile - Carmel IN
American Olean® Tile
Home is where the heart is, and American Olean is the trusted choice for residential projects. With countless, on-trend design options, the versatility and durability of American Olean tile make it easy to produce stylish, modern designs anywhere in your home.
Crossville Porcelain Tile - Carmel IN
Crossville Porcelain Tile
As the first tile manufacturer in Tennessee (est. 1986), Crossville is the leading American manufacturer of beautiful, sustainable solutions that advance the frontiers of tile design. From introducing the nation’s first large-format porcelain tiles, to becoming the first and only net consumer of tile waste materials (meaning we recycle even more than we produce), to developing cutting-edge performance innovations that turn mere surfaces into “breathing” living environments—we are committed to pioneering products and practices that change the way the world views tile.
Florida Tile - Carmel IN
Florida Tile
Florida Tile products are one of the greatest values in the industry. Our reputation is built on providing reasonably priced, design rich products to the tile market. Florida Tile products come directly from the earth. Because of this, we are particularly aware of our responsibility to help preserve the beauty and health of our planet and all its natural resources.
Mirage Glass Tiles  - Carmel IN
Mirage Glass Tiles
Mirage Glass Tiles offers a unique appearance unachievable with conventional tiles.



BonaKemi Cleaners - Carmel IN
BonaKemi Cleaners
You'll find Bona® wood floor finishes and care products are as natural as your wood floor and carry the Environmental Choice Seal, giving you the assurance that you're "Doing The Right Thing" for you, your family and your environment.



Teragren Bamboo Surfaces - Carmel IN
Teragren Bamboo Surfaces
Teragren bamboo panels and veneers. A beautiful, durable bamboo is an environmentally responsible alternative to hardwoods.
Cambria® Quartz Surfaces - Carmel IN
Cambria® Quartz Surfaces
Cambria manufactures surfacing materials made from quartz. By a sophisticated process of vibro-compaction, we give unique attributes to Cambria products. Our product personifies resilience and strength, with the ease of maintenance and durability.
CaesarStone Quartz Surfaces - Carmel IN
CaesarStone Quartz Surfaces
CaesarStone Quartz Surfaces and Countertops offer the ultimate combination of form and function, allowing for a more diverse, durable, and practical countertop surfacing material than either granite or marble.
DalTile® Countertops - Carmel IN
DalTile® Countertops
Our extensive selection includes every option, from the finest natural stone to enduring ONE Quartz to our award-winning Panoramic Porcelain.



The basic fibers that are used to manufacture carpets today are Nylon, Polyester, PTT, Polypropylene. Each has unique qualities and strengths. Your choice depends upon the characteristics that are most important to your home.
R2X Soil & Stain Repellent - Carmel IN
R2X Soil & Stain Repellent
Worried About Stains?Relax with R2X, Shaw's soil and stain resistance technology.
Shaw EverTouch Fiber - Carmel IN
Shaw EverTouch Fiber
This new generation of ultra-soft carpeting is gaining popularity across the country.



We are your source for flooring tools & installation supplies for carpet, tile & wood floors.
MAPEI Grout - Carmel IN
MAPEI Grout
MAPEI offers the most complete line of products for surface preparation, ceramic tile & stone installation, floor covering installation, and products for concrete & masonry repair and construction.
LATICRETE®  - Carmel IN
LATICRETE®
Laticrete International is a world wide manufacturer and marketer of materials and methods for the installation of ceramic tile and stone.



Our selection of laminate flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.
Mannington Charter Collection™ - Carmel IN
Mannington Charter Collection™
Mannington laminate offers the most realistic wood and tile looks. Our laminate flooring is one of the most durable and environmentally friendly floors you can buy. And Mannington laminate offers all that...and more. Made from over 70% recycled content, using low-VOC inks and adhesives, Mannington laminate is FloorScore certified, ensuring good indoor air quality for your home.
Quick•Step Laminate Flooring - Carmel IN
Quick•Step Laminate Flooring
Quick-Step flooring has earned the prestigious FloorScore certification for indoor air quality by passing the most stringent tests in the world. All Quick-Step products are officially FloorScore certified, giving families living on our flooring peace of mind that they are bringing a product into their home that meets strict indoor air quality standards.



Explore why Luxury Vinyl Flooring is the top choice for interior designers. Learn how it balances style, durability, and practicality to enhance any space.
Mannington Adura® Flooring - Carmel IN
Mannington Adura® Flooring
Adura is the next generation of luxury vinyl, and the fastest growing category in the flooring business. Why? Adura provides the look and elegance of wood, tile, or stone without the worry! Available in a variety of shapes, sizes, textures, and installation options, Adura delivers award-winning fashion to your home. With proprietary technology, Adura is engineered to look and feel like the real thing, easy to maintain, and is backed up by a limited lifetime residential/6 year light commercial warranty.
Congoleum® DuraCeramic - Carmel IN
Congoleum® DuraCeramic
New DuraCeramic is warmer to the touch, more comfortable underfoot,
EarthWerks® Luxury Vinyl  - Carmel IN
EarthWerks® Luxury Vinyl
Strength, performance, luxury and style are built into all of the flooring products you will find under the EarthWerks™ brand name



Find the perfect paint and stain in every color you can imagine, in the finish you need for every room or project. Explore how different colors and tones can create a calm, warm, or energetic ambiance.



Our assortment of paint effects, finishes, and sealers help you complete your craft and decor projects the right way. Create smooth, durable, non-yellowing finishes that help ensure your projects will last.






Our selection of vinyl sheet flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.
Mannington Resilient Vinyl Flooring - Carmel IN
Mannington Resilient Vinyl Flooring
Mannington Vinyl Floors prove that vinyl flooring can be both surprisingly fashionable and indisputably durable.
Tarkett Commercial Resilient Flooring - Carmel IN
Tarkett Commercial Resilient Flooring
Welcome to everyday. That wonderful series of day-to-day moments strung together where real life happens. And they can sometimes be kind of messy. Like crafty-pasty-paper mache day. And dining-room-hockey-practice day. And let’s-make-a-tent-in-the-living-room day. It’s for those very real reasons that we created Tarkett® Vinyl Sheet Flooring that wears not tears. That cleans up easily. That stands up to everyday life and looks good doing it. Real floors for real life.
Congoleum® Vinyl Flooring - Carmel IN
Congoleum® Vinyl Flooring
For generations Congoleum flooring products have been an important part of America's homes.
Patcraft Commercial Resilient - Carmel IN
Patcraft Commercial Resilient
We engineer flooring using advanced materials designed to be durable yet cost-effective.



Waterproof flooring mimics the look of natural products like wood or stone and provides a wide array of decors that can be installed most anywhere. It rigid core can be installed in traditionally wet areas like baths, kitchens, family, and dining areas.
{Waterproof Flooring - Carmel IN
{Waterproof Flooring



Our selection of wood flooring offers the perfect combination of beauty, maintenance and durability. With hundreds of unique colors and patterns, you are sure to find the perfect look to coordinate with your decor.
Chelsea Plank Flooring - Carmel IN
Chelsea Plank Flooring
Frame Hardwoods, the manufacturer of Chelsea Plank Flooring, is a family owned company that has produced factory finished solid plank flooring longer than any other current manufacturer. Since 1997, our philosophy has been to supply a product of exceptional quality for a fair price, thus positioning Chelsea Plank as one of the best, if not the best value in hardwood flooring. If you are looking for quality, prefinished plank flooring at a reasonable price, look no further.
Mannington Hardwood Flooring - Carmel IN
Mannington Hardwood Flooring
ManningElegance engineered for superior performance. Engineered Hardwood flooring is real hardwood - the word “engineered” just refers to the way in which it’s made. And there are many benefits to choosing an engineered product over a solid product.
Hartco® Wood Flooring - Carmel IN
Hartco® Wood Flooring
Hartco Quality Wood Flooring, among the top flooring brands in the world, has a reputation among commercial designers for design freedom. Hartco's range and flexibility also satisfies a yearning for a highly personal, custom style in the home. Hartco patterns and contrasts help define interiors, from traditional to the avant-garde.
Mirage Hardwood Floors - Carmel IN
Mirage Hardwood Floors
Retailers and other industry professionals have rated Mirage 1st for quality 34 times in the last decade.
QU-Cork Flooring - Carmel IN
QU-Cork Flooring
You can now have the beauty and durability of nature with out cutting down trees. Cork is the truly renewable flooring option utilizing only the bark of the Cork Tree which can be harvested every nine years.
Wicanders® Cork Flooring - Carmel IN
Wicanders® Cork Flooring
Whether you choose the floating or stick-down option, WICANDERS floors are quicker and easier to install than ever before. With the improved CORKLOC-design and increased sizes of the stick-down range, a WICANDERS floor saves time and reduces installation expense.
Preverco Hardwood Floors - Carmel IN
Preverco Hardwood Floors
Combining the richness of natural wood with avant-garde manufacturing, Preverco hardwood floors lend a distinctive and refined touch to any decor.
Bella Cera Hardwood Floors - Carmel IN
Bella Cera Hardwood Floors
One plank at a time, one detail at a time, the work of artisans meets the style of fashion-forward interior designers. This is the essence of Bella Cera premium hardwood in every detail except the price. Unlike any other modern manufacturer, Bella Cera prepares its flooring in the old Italian tradition, from uncompromising source wood selection to the final floor finish. They are painstakingly hand-crafted by trained hardwood floor artisans, yet priced affordably.
Harris Wood® Floors - Carmel IN
Harris Wood® Floors
There’s nothing like a quality wood floor to add that something extra to the atmosphere, whether it’s for your home, a rustic wood cabin, a yoga studio or a trendy pad in the city. Surely we don’t have to convince you, since you’re visiting our website… Tempting as it may be, let’s not base our decision on aesthetics alone. When you weigh in the environment, health benefits, ease of maintenance, durability and cost, Harris Wood engineered wood floors are one of the best investments you can make.
IndusParquet Exotic Hardwood Floors - Carmel IN
IndusParquet Exotic Hardwood Floors
ndusParquet Hardwood flooring. Successful Brazilian quality all over the world.
Capri Cork Flooring - Carmel IN
Capri Cork Flooring
Capri cork is dedicated to offering high quality commercial floor coverings.

Products We Carry

Quality Products, Exceptional Value
  • Accent Rugs
  • Animal Print / Wildlife Rugs
  • Antique Rugs (Reproductions)
  • Area Rugs
  • Botanicals / Florals Rugs
  • Custom Rugs
  • Folk Art Rugs
  • Hand-Carved Rugs
  • Juvenile / Kid Rugs
  • Machine Made Rugs
  • Modern / Contemporary Rugs
  • Motifs / Novelty Rugs
  • Rug Runners
  • Athletic Surfaces
  • Gym/Fitness Center
  • Synthetic Grass Surfaces
  • Estimating
  • Interior Design
  • Berber Carpet
  • Carpeting
  • Children/Juvenile Carpet
  • Commercial (Tufted)
  • Commercial Carpet
  • Commercial Cut Pile
  • Custom Carpet
  • Indoor/Outdoor Carpet
  • Modular Carpet Tile
  • Patterned Carpet
  • Recycled Carpet
  • Shag Carpet
  • Spike Resistant Carpet
  • Wool Carpets
  • Bathroom Tile
  • Borders/Medallions
  • Ceramic Tile
  • Decorative Tile
  • Floor Tile (glazed)
  • Hard Surface Flooring
  • Kitchen Tile
  • Mexican Tile (Saltillo)
  • Mosaic Tile
  • Mosaic Tile (glass)
  • Mosaic Tile (glazed)
  • Porcelain Tile Flooring
  • Spa / Pool Tile
  • Terra Cotta Floor Tile
  • Bathtub/Shower Remodeling
  • Cleaning/Maintenance Kits
  • Ceramic Tile Countertops
  • Ceramic/Porcelain Countertops
  • Decorative Surfaces
  • Granite Countertops
  • Marble Countertops
  • Soapstone Countertops
  • Solid Surface Countertops
  • Bonded
  • Cushion/Padding
  • Rubber
  • Binding, Fringe, Tape
  • Borders - Carpet/Rug
  • Flooring Accessories
  • Laminate Accessories
  • Resilient Accessories
  • Tile Trims
  • Underfloor Heating
  • Grouts (ceramic tile)
  • Laminate Flooring
  • Laminate Plank Flooring
  • Luxury Vinyl Plank Flooring (LVP)
  • Luxury Vinyl Sheet Flooring
  • Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT)
  • Granite Tile Flooring
  • Marble Tile Flooring
  • Mosaic Stone Flooring
  • Natural Stone Flooring
  • Slate Flooring
  • Soapstone Flooring
  • Travertine Tile Flooring
  • Tumbledstone Flooring
  • Glass Tile
  • Leather Tile
  • Metal Tile
  • Paver/Quarry Tile
  • Slip-Resistant Quarry Tile
  • Slip Resistant Flooring
  • Specialty Floors
  • Underlayment
  • Cove Base (rubber)
  • Cove Base (vinyl)
  • Cushioned Vinyl Flooring
  • Inlaid Vinyl (sheet) Flooring
  • Linoleum Flooring
  • Resilient/Vinyl Flooring
  • Rubber Flooring
  • Rubber Sheet Flooring
  • Sheet Vinyl Flooring
  • Vinyl Composition Tile (VCT)
  • Wall Tile (glazed)
  • Wall Tile (unglazed)
  • Bamboo Flooring
  • Borders/Accents
  • Cork Flooring
  • Corners/Inlays
  • Crests/Medallions
  • Custom Wood Floors
  • Engineered Hardwood Flooring
  • Engineered Plank Flooring
  • Exotic Hardwood Flooring
  • Hand Scraped Wood Floors
  • Parquet Flooring
  • Prefinished Solid Plank Flooring
  • Random Width Plank Flooring
  • Solid Plank Flooring
  • Trims/Moldings
  • Unfinished Solid Plank
  • Wide Plank Flooring
  • Wood Flooring
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