What do you want most from the rug in your living room? For many people, the answer is a sense of comfort. They want a rug that they can come home to after a day at work, a morning running errands, a busy social afternoon or a night out and sink their toes into, relishing [...]

Saving money on interior design is important in this day and age. People simply don’t have that much disposable income to splash out with. Of course, home design is more important in touch economic times because people spend more time at home and they want that time to be spent comfortably in stylish surroundings. That’s [...]

Bamboo rugs for the home are a great idea if you have quite an affinity for oriental design. Oriental rugs are obviously associated with oriental design but they are often complete with motifs that you would usually expect in the Middle East – countries like Turkey where rug production is a traditional stretching back centuries. [...]

It’s great when designers come up with new ways of presenting traditional styles. Homemakers particularly appreciate with creative skill when it comes to rug design, because fresh ideas often work wonders in the home. The team at Louis de Poortere are actually responsibly for a wonderfully creative approach to traditional style that is evident in [...]

When you buy a new house that is part of a brand new development, the very first thing you are likely to try and do in terms of interior design is impress a bit of character on the surroundings. New builds are great because they’re modern and efficient and clean, but that doesn’t mean they [...]

Hallways should never be completely sterile places. It’s understandable that people often focus the bulk of their attention on the bedrooms, the kitchen, the living room and so on when it comes to decorating the house and the hallway can often be left alone. People get used to hallways that are absent of any really [...]

Wool rugs are incredibly durable and hardwearing but that does not mean that they respond positively to rough treatment. The fact is that rugs will last for a very long time in really good condition provided they are not exposed to any undue mistreatment. The problem is that mistreatment is very easy to inflict on [...]

This article is a continuation on the theme of using purpose to help you decide on the best rug. You want a rug to make the place more fun In order to make a room more fun you often have to introduce colour or a jazzy pattern. This is something you can achieve more readily [...]

It’s usually accepted that character can’t be faked in the world of interior design. But that doesn’t mean it can’t be encouraged. Character is something that grows within a property even if it takes time for new styles to bed in and for the personality of a space to develop. You can introduce new features [...]

It’s important to ask yourself why you are interested in buying a rug for a given space in your house before you actually make the investment. What practical purpose do you want the rug to fulfil? Answering this question will make it much easier to decide which rug from the countless rugs on the market [...]