About Us

Adam Jarrett

adamj@customstairrunners.com

Owner, Designer, and Installer

Adam Jarrett is a true artisan at his trade in the carpet industry. He is known for his innovative creativity and ability to make challenging layouts and ideas possible.

At a young age Adam could be found painting superhero characters on canvas, tinkering with mechanical things around the house, or observing how things work. Always fascinated with how to make things stronger and better with a splash of perfection.  Adam started learning how to install carpet at the age of 15, when his father, Arnold K. Jarrett, began bringing him on weekend and summer installations.  Although his heart was not in the trade at the time, Adam learned a great wealth of knowledge from his father's work ethic, and day-to-day operation of a work crew.  After speaking with Adam as he reflected back on his most fondest moments in learning the trade were actually his failures that has made him who he is today. He said "When you fail, you learn, failure is necessary in order to mentally grow" So at that time, Adam’s passion and skill level for the carpet trade was good at best.  Recalling how his father would jokingly say, “you’re not a (carpet) mechanic and you’ll never be.”  

After high school Adam pursued a 2 year college degree in Sales and Marketing at Nassau Community College. He started his sales career working for various companies on Long Island selling accounting and security software solutions for large corporations.  However, after 6 years in corporate America, Adam realized that his personality did not mesh well with corporate office politics. After leaving that behind, Adam decided to go back to the family trade but this time to own his own, and master the craft.    He created JarrStar Carpet Company in 2000, this was the first stepping stone.  JarrStar Carpet has allowed Adam to incorporate his sales and marketing experience, while staying in the trade his father taught him.  In this time, the residential carpet business started to take a turn, new flooring trends started shifting away from wall-to-wall carpeting in main areas and was replaced with hardwood and tile.  So naturally Adam decided to learn and expand into all aspects of the flooring business, to include carpet, hardwood, luxury vinyl tile, ceramic, and porcelain.  The company name was changed to JarrStar Flooring Inc to cover the new products and services offered.  But still the love for carpet got the best of him, and a revelation happened in 2007 when a business acquaintance told him about a new trend in flooring .  Adam recalls being told, "95% of Homeowners now have hardwood in their homes and on their stairs, the need for customs stair runners could be a hit".   This revelation was going to create something that had never been done before and push Adam's artistic and creative abilities to a whole new level.  The challenge was waiting to be unleashed.  Three worlds now come together- complete harmonization of his mechanical skills, coupled with expressing his artistic abilities while continuing in his father's trade.     Adam established a new focus and created his company today known as  Custom Stair Runners.  Adam recognized the markets need for true customization by creating one of a kind stair runners/rugs providing World class installation for homeowners.  Over 25 years in the making, Adam Jarrett owner of Custom Stair Runners is here and growing strong, developing and maintaining more than 2000 satisfied clients on Long Island and the Tri-state Area.  The passion for this business has never been stronger!