Define Your Space - with a
Rug
by:
Mike Yeager
Area rugs are one of the easiest and most effective
methods of altering a room's interior - the perfect accessory to really set
off your home’s beauty. An area rug will not only bring comfort, grace &
romance to your home, but are even beautiful to look at and wonderful to
walk and lie on. Besides, area rugs help to insulate your home and reduce
noise, especially on hard flooring like tiles and wood.
Area rugs allow a room’s purpose to be defined. Specific areas can be
divided and identified just by placing a rug in the center of that space.
For example, in a very open plan apartment or a studio apartment where your
living, eating and sleeping spaces are all located within the same four
walls, a few well-placed area rugs can immediately define each area as a
separate room, thereby giving you a greater feeling of room identity with
obvious boundaries determining exactly where one area stops and another one
begins.
The benefits of using an area rug rather than a fitted carpet are quite
obvious; they look great on all kinds of flooring, can easily be moved
around to accommodate new furniture and new interior design themes besides
permitting you the luxury of changing the color scheme or design of your
house or apartment on a regular basis. What is more, should you move to a
new house or apartment, the rugs can simply be rolled up and transported
over to your new place!
Mix-n-match
The weaving of area rugs has evolved over the years to produce exciting
styles, textures and designs to mix-n-match with your decor. Area rugs made
with wool are thought to be much more durable than those made with
alternative materials. The complicated, geometric designs that often feature
in round area rugs, often necessitate that the furniture should be placed
symmetrically around them. And if you are planning a traditionally themed
interior, don’t hesitate to look at contemporary area rugs. Many of the
latest rug designs work equally well alongside classic and antique furniture
as with stylish, cool, crisp contemporary interiors. And if a low budget is
your dilemma, despair not. For today, it is relatively easy to find a good
quality discount area rug. Finally, whoever coined the alliteration – smug
as a bug in a rug… must have definitely done so curled up in front of the
open fire on a cold winter’s night, relaxing on a beautifully soft and
fluffy shaggy area rug!
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