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How To Properly Unpack Your New Rug

How To Properly Unpack Your New Rug

Wrinkles, ripples, and bumps happen even when rugs are treated with the greatest of care. Often patience is the most effective tool you can use to achieve a perfectly flat, beautiful, and safe rug surface. Just as important as patience is caution. Be careful as you seek to remove distortions from your rug.
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Effortless ‘Musts’ to Preserving Your Synthetic Rug

Effortless ‘Musts’ to Preserving Your Synthetic Rug

When we purchase a decorative piece for our home, it can be pretty easy to overlook the whole maintenance aspect. Rugs aren’t always cheap, and because they come into contact with the bottoms of shoes and feet, messes and spills, and even odors wafting through the air, it’s even more vital we take the necessary steps to preserve them.
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Top Rug Styles for 2021

Top Rug Styles for 2021

Rugs are an essential part of flooring - the warmth and aesthetics they give are unmatched. Whether you love to keep things simple, or you’re the type to go bold, your personality reflects in your flooring décor. 2021 is a year for changes and rugs are an affordable, non-permanent and fun way to add personality and flair to any room - that's why rug are becoming more popular and they'll be a huge part of every design trend this year! Learn the most popular styles for this new year
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The Best Rugs for Farmhouse Décor

The Best Rugs for Farmhouse Décor

Rugs are a key element of any well-designed room. They add cozy charm to a space, save your feet from freezing hardwoods in the winter, and can complement any décor style. If you’re looking for farmhouse style rugs for your kitchen, dining room, or another space in your home, here’s everything you need to know about this decorating style and how to find the perfect rugs to match it. 
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5 Tips to Change Up Your Rugs Every Season

5 Tips to Change Up Your Rugs Every Season

The changing seasons outside create the perfect opportunity to change your decor inside. From spring and summer to fall and winter, decorating by season can help you embrace all that each season has to offer.
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The Perfect Fall Rugs

The Perfect Fall Rugs

The fall season is one that brings out the warm-fuzzies in everyone. Families and friends draw closer together, pumpkin is added to everything, and the Hallmark channel spreads holiday cheer non-stop on your televisions.

And one of the best ways to help spread the season’s joy throughout your home is by adding vibrant area rugs to accentuate entryways, kitchens, dining rooms, and more!

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6 Tricks to Find the Perfect Rug for Your Pet

6 Tricks to Find the Perfect Rug for Your Pet

We love rugs. We adore our feline and canine companions. But pets and rugs don’t necessarily go together. There is no one perfect solution to living with pets amidst beautiful rugs. However, if you think creatively, you can reach a happy compromise that lets you have the gorgeous rugs you crave and at the same time, provide a safe and happy living environment for your cats and dogs. Following are six tricks to help you find the perfect rug for you and your pet. Ideas you might consider:
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6 Reasons Why Transitional Rugs are So Popular

6 Reasons Why Transitional Rugs are So Popular

As you begin to explore the big wide beautiful world of transitional rugs, you’ll soon find yourself drawn into the awesome possibilities of bringing transitional style to your floors and your home. Are you beginning to see the reasons why these great rugs are so popular? The wide range of transitional rugs currently available is quite amazing with stylish good looks, creative patterns, and gorgeous color palettes. You’ll want to keep a close eye on what’s happening with transitional rugs from season to season as we go forward as it will be exciting to see all the new collections to come.
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Hand-Knotted Rugs or Machine Made Rugs … What’s the Difference?

Hand-Knotted Rugs or Machine Made Rugs … What’s the Difference?

Area rugs are an integral design element when it comes to updating the look of your home or office. While you may know what colors, designs and motifs you wish to incorporate into your decor through your rugs, you may not have considered which type of rug would work best with your lifestyle. Not all rugs are created equal, and choosing the wrong type of rug for your space could result in a waste of time, money and energy. 
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How to Pick the Right Colors in a Rug

How to Pick the Right Colors in a Rug

If you are choosing a rug for a room that already has a color palette established, then a safe rule of thumb is to select an area rug that pulls its colors from the walls, furniture, and soft furnishings. By doing this, the rug will naturally have an appealing mix of neutrals and accent hues. If all the other elements (walls, ceiling, upholstery, window coverings) are done in neutral tones, then bringing in bright colors or deep hues into your rug would make for a lovely contrast.
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Does Your Rug Need Extra Padding?

Does Your Rug Need Extra Padding?

Once you’ve found that perfect rug or rugs for your foyer, hallway, living room, bedroom or other living space, it is more than likely that the first question to arise might be, do my new rugs need extra padding? The answer is a resounding "yes!" Almost all area rugs need a pad underneath. Here are a few of the reasons that just like your wall-to-wall carpet is made better by padding...
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The Average Cost of Rugs: Are You Overpaying for Retail?

The Average Cost of Rugs: Are You Overpaying for Retail?

Give us good value for our money--that’s all we ask. (Well, that and a fabulous area rug.) Regardless of our financial circumstances or the size of our interior decorating budget, we ALL want to get the best value for the money we spend. That’s also true when it comes to purchasing beautiful area rugs to bring comfort underfoot.
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