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Decorating smooth floors with cool rugs
Smooth floor coverings are really fashionable. The most common floor coverings people use at home are tiles (usually for kitchen and bathroom areas), laminate flooring and exposed wooden floors if they are treated and finished appropriately. All these types of floors are very easy to clean which makes them very convenient but their neatness also [...]
Rugs and other elements of rustic design
Rugs are among the most successful elements of rustic design. Rustic interior design appeals to people because it’s warm, simple and unpretentious. Because of those attributes, it always remains in fashion and even if it is traditional to an extent, it never gets tired. Traditional rugs, along with rustic style skins and hides, tend to [...]
How rugs help apartment-dwellers enjoy the quiet life
If you are a fan of the quiet life when you are at home then you might have your plans scuppered by living in a city centre apartment. It’s true that city centre apartments are often home to people who have very active social lives, but that doesn’t mean some of them don’t want to [...]
Hand knotted rugs make for a classier look
It’s sometimes the case that we want to show off with the rugs we use around the house. There’s certainly no harm in this! When you have good taste, you want to let people know and you want to feel proud of the place you are responsible for designing. It’s hard to argue with that. [...]
Woodstock Rug Image From Tracey Vick
Tracey Vick sent us a photo of her Woodstock rug in her beautiful kitchen for her entry in this months Facebook competition to win a £50.00 Rug Seller voucher. The Woodstock rug collection, manufactured in Belgium, is of contemporary patchwork design and carries an interesting blend of shades. Woodstock rugs are easy to clean and [...]
The best rugs for family life
Family life is always busy and it’s often pretty hard to keep the house clean when so much is going on around you. Even when everyone knuckles down to help, family homes necessarily take huge amounts of maintenance, so it’s good to know that there are rugs and other decorative elements out there that are [...]
Choosing Shaggy Rugs that do not shed.
Twilight Rugs continue to be our best selling collection and recent updates have been made to offer an even larger choce of colours and sizes. We are often asked for Shaggy Rugs that will not shed and the Twilight collection is the ultimate solution. A combination of thick and thin yarns provide comfort, style and [...]
Clever striped rugs do more than lift the style of your room
In the world of fashion, stripes are used in very creative ways. For instance, people often wear downward stripes as a means of lending them the illusion of extra height – of making their bodies or legs seem longer to onlookers. Stripes definitely have that interesting psychological effect, but it’s not only in fashion that [...]
Finding the most natural rugs on the market
Wool is not the only natural material that is used to make rugs although wool rugs are undoubtedly the most popular. This is partly because there are different types of wool that can be applied differently and produce different textures (take Flokati rugs as a for instance). Skins and pelts are popular because they, like [...]
How contemporary designers have reinterpreted floral traditions
Floral designs are really popular when it comes to rugs. They’ve actually been popular for a very long time and although floral designs are often thought of as chintzy or a bit kitsch, when they are in the hands of professional rug designers with a great reputation for taste, they actually turn out beautifully. Floral [...]