Area Rugs

Area rugs protect your floor. Use rugs as walk-off mats and runners to protect your hardwood, laminate or cork floors.

Area rugs add comfort and warmth to hard surface floors like ceramic tile.

Area rugs offer and inexpensive makeover to any room. It is a quick and easy way to give your room a new look.

Area rugs are durable and easy to maintain. They can last for hundreds of years before showing wear and are easy to care for. Vacuum on a regular basis, clean up spills quickly with warm water and soap, and have them professionally cleaned periodically depending on your traffic and soiling.

An area rug can add beauty to a room. It can transform the look and feel of any room with color and pattern. A rug can add character and give your room that finishing touch.

Area rugs define the space. An area rug anchors a room and gives it definition. It can bring a room together or, in a larger room, be used to define a separate area.

Area rugs can be creative, not only in their color and pattern, but by their placement and use in the home. Rugs can define the season, or a holiday.

Area rugs offer variety. There are so many styles to choose from. Traditional, transitional, contemporary or modern. There’s also retro, southwestern, novelty, botanical and theme rugs. You can have hand-made or machine-made with wool, cotton, nylon, silk or olefin. There are even rugs made out of leather.

Area rugs can be a good investment. They last for years and often become family heirlooms. A rug is considered an antique if it is older than 60 years and can be worth thousands of dollars

It’s hard to think of a reason to not buy an area rug.

Don’t support or buy rugs from producers who use child labor.

If you have allergies, you might want to test a rug before buying it. Ask to take it home and see if you’re bothered by having it in your room.

Machine made rugs offer endless design possibilities, greater efficiency and lower prices. A machined rug can be either tufted or woven and come in virtually any style or pattern.

Contemporary patterns are popular, but in more cosmopolitan areas, hand-made, natural fiber, traditional rugs are in demand.

Flokati or shag rugs are hot and exciting and come in lots of interesting solid and multi-colors

Color is by far the most important thing to look for when choosing an area rug. Look for a rug that brings together the paint, furnishings and accessories of your room. Look for the nuance of color and look for shading that defines the true character of the rug.

Rug size is important. Area rugs define space so you’ll want the right size for your room. Typically, machine-made rugs vary with the machine and come in approximate sizes of 4’x6’, 5’x8’, 6’x9’, and 9’x12’. Room size rugs should still leave some floor showing, and in dining rooms you’ll need a rug large enough for all chair legs to fit. Long hallways might need multiple runners.

Decide on a design of the rug, whether traditional, transitional or modern. Look for proportion, detail, color and shape. Does the overall feel of the rug seem right? Does it seem to fit in your room? Do you love it?

Check the density. Generally speaking, the denser the construction the better the rug. Quality of fiber, dye and workmanship should also be considered. In hand knotted rugs density is measured in knots per square inch ranging from 200 to 1000, where as in machined rugs density is measured in “points” and range in the millions.

For investment quality rugs look for authenticity. An antique rug is generally 60 years or older and should come with some form of “certificate of authenticity”. Be sure to look at the condition of the rug. Look for evenness of pile, fading, frayed edges and damage. Don’t be surprised to find flaws in the design, however, most authentic rugs have them because, after all, they are man made.