If you want to achieve a modern look using rugs in your front room, but you don’t anything too bright and you aren’t keen on pastel tints, then it’s worth looking at some of the contemporary rugs out there that using shading and toning in their colour palettes to great effect. Shading is the process [...]

There’s absolutely no reason why kids’ rugs can’t also be incredibly modern and stylish. Just because you want your interior design to appeal to children and to their wild imaginations, that does not mean you have to choose kids’ rugs that detract slightly from the contemporary style you’ve got going on in the rest of [...]

As a buyer, you have to make a number of different decisions with relation to the rugs that are on your radar. Among the choices are things like colour, pattern, style, material, weave, pile and so on. However, there are final flourishes to consider too. Whether or not to pick a rug with a fringe [...]

Now that we’re entering autumn it’s sensible to reintroduce the shoes-off policy that usually gets abandoned through the summer because people wear lighter footwear and often don’t feel like having shoes on in the house at all because it’s simply too warm. Once the cold returns, shoes and boots are once again the chosen footwear [...]

In open plan living arrangements, you are bound to have certain spaces unoccupied by bits of furniture that act as passageways for people to get from place to place. There are no rooms, per se, and no corridors either, but there are zones that take the place of these things and it’s important to make [...]

If you are landlord of a property in an area that is very popular with students then it’s likely you are looking forward to some interest from prospective tenants in the coming weeks. It’s important to make the most of this period to attract the right people. If you take pride in your property then [...]

One of the problems homeowners sometimes complain of when they have colourful rugs is that the colours don’t fade evenly. However, there are a couple of ways you can combat this perfectly ordinary effect. The first way to combat the way colours fade from rugs is to make sure that you buy high quality rugs [...]

There are loads of rugs out there that look incredibly different to one another. When differentiating between rugs, you’ll come across the words pattern and style fairly often. These two terms refer to different things so try not to confuse them. Style The style of the rug can be thought of as the design category [...]

This article continues looking at the variety of rugs on the market. Oriental rugs Oriental rugs have this wonderful exotic appeal because of their Middle Eastern designs. They feel historical and interesting, calling to mind the exploration of hundreds of years ago. They fit in with vintage interior design and appeal to well-travelled homemakers. Shaggy [...]

There’s already a bit of autumn in the air and the climate is definitely changing. Fortunately, this year the transition into autumn will be quite a welcome one for people in the UK, because we’ve actually had a great summer and the new season offers a chance to enjoy being warm indoors and watching the [...]