One of the chief reasons people buy rugs is to brighten up their homes. That’s why so many of the modern and traditional rugs on the market make such intelligent use of colour. Few home accessories have as much power to enrich the interior design of a given space as rugs – they act as [...]
For such a fundamental human incentive, comfort is actually incredibly complex. We all seek out comfort where possible – physical comfort, emotional comfort, comfort in our jobs and in our social groups. The psychology of comfort is definitely worth discussing when it comes to rugs. Since rugs are so soft to the touch, it’s easy [...]
The world of rugs is incredibly diverse. All sorts of styles co-habit specialist rug shops like so many fish in the sea. Okay, perhaps there aren’t quite as many styles of rugs out there as there are species of ocean critters, but there’s a good number and the variations are often fairly minute. Nevertheless, it’s [...]
The January sales offer people an opportunity to save a lot of cash on new furniture. Furniture is one of those things that are worth waiting till January to buy, purely because things like dining sets, sofas, armchairs, coffee tables and so on are so expensive. If you save up your money till the January [...]
The Christmas period represents a real boom for a lot of businesses, especially those that are all about helping people to have a good time. Bars and cafés experience their busiest hours over Christmas and the New Year, partly because people are so up for spending money on their social lives and partly because punters [...]
It’s not always the style of the rug you choose that determines how good it looks in your home. There are other factors to consider as well – things that point towards the subtle science of interior design rather than what’s going on at the surface. What we’re referring to in particular here is the [...]
Sustainability is really important these days. Most people are aware that global warming is of real concern and that it has definite real-world effects, such as climate change. Sometimes, all it really takes for people take to the environment more seriously is first-hand experience of climate change, but the amount of reportage on the environment [...]
The New Year’s celebrations have come and gone. We’ve stocked up on the Rennies and sworn to give our bodies a rest after all the somatic sabotage brought on by seasonal exuberance – the eating, the drinking and burning the candle not so much at both ends as the wrong end. Now, of course, the [...]
Happy New Year to all our customers and readers! We’d like to extend the best wishes of the entire theRugSeller.co.uk team at the start of 2014. As we say goodbye to a busy, hectic, challenging, but ultimately incredibly rewarding 2013, we hope that all our customers who have bought from us in the last 12 [...]
The party season has just about started, but there’s still time to kit your house out with some great rugs for a good old shindig. If you’re planning to have people over on Christmas Day, Boxing Day or New Year’s Eve then you’ll need to whip the house into shape for a proper party and [...]