Artistic creations don’t have to be confined to your walls. When it comes to your house, there are plenty of ways to infuse beauty and design within every part of your personal space. From the light fixture to the furniture, each piece of your overall vision can be accented with an artsy essence, and that...

Patterned rugs are excellent for anchoring a room and connecting all the different design pieces together, especially when dealing with simple and neutral colors and natural finishes. With that in mind, we have some geometric rug designs and ideas to share with you today. There’s something here for every style and we hope you’ll find...

Hallways aren’t particularly exciting, being merely transition spaces. However, they have lots of potential and can designed and decorated in lots of interesting ways. A common method used to make these look more welcoming and comfortable and more in tone with the rest of the house involves incorporating rugs and carpets into the design. A...

Having rugs outdoors may seem a bit unusual but wait until you see how big of an impact they have on the decor and ambiance of spaces such as decks, patios, balconies and terraces. Outdoor rugs allow us to extend the warmth and coziness of our home into the outside areas. They’re designed to withstand...

After we showcased you the blue color rugs, now its time for another color. Green is a color associated with nature, spring and the outdoors in general so it makes sense to incorporate it into the design of your deck, patio or terrace in one way or another. There are lots of different ways to...

One of the elements that are sure to help make your deck or patio feel more comfortable and inviting is an outdoor rug. This is one of the items that’s often overlooked when furnishing and decorating an outdoor area so we hope to give you an incentive today and to inspire you to add more...

You can change an entire room just by adding a rug to it. That little bit of added texture plays an important in the grand scheme of things and, in case you didn’t know it, you can also take rugs outside and use them to decorate your deck, porch, terrace and other similar areas. Outdoor...

Persian rugs are beautiful, versatile and sometimes very expensive. They have also been popular for centuries for good reasons. Persian carpets have been a staple among designers because of their quality and their variety, along with the fact that the myriad patterns and styles can fit just about any room. While there are lots of...

Part of the appeal of vintage items is their comfortable, pleasantly worn appearance, and this is what makes distressed rugs one of the hottest floor covering trends. Just like a well-loved pair of jeans, they feel like they have a history, complete with some battle scars from everyday life. And, just like those designer jeans...

Most people would agree that a room just doesn’t feel complete without a rug. Still, is a rug really necessary in a space like the dining room, for example? Well, that depends. On one hand, a rug can offer advantages such as making the room look and feel more dynamic or creating a more comfortable...

Area rugs play an important role in home decor, not just as a floor covering but also as a focal point for the room. They not add color, texture or pattern to a design scheme, and anchor a room. The right rug in the right size pulls together all the other elements and can make a...

Designers know that the right flooring and floor coverings can make or break the style of your room. Myriad flooring ideas were on display at the 2016 Architectural Digest Design Show and we saw plenty of enticing materials, finishes, patterns and designs for both flooring and rugs.

Black and white are neutrals and their use in interior design is interesting in the sense that these two colors can both stand out dramatically and blend in seamlessly. It all depends on the strategy chosen and the ambiance desired. An area rug has the means to make a powerful statement in a room’s décor....

Everyone knows oriental rugs are high-quality pieces and can last for generations. But, at one point, the colors start to fade and the rug loses its original charm. It’s exactly for these situations that a special technique was created. Overdyed rugs are created using a special process which basically covers them in a vivid new...

Geometric prints are one of those fantastic classic décor staples that can fit anywhere with grace and ease. From contemporary circles to traditional trellises, and everywhere in between, the beauty of geometry is that it’s both vivid and subtle – vivid because of its inherent non-solid pattern, and subtle because of its repetition of classic...

As you may have noticed, shag rugs are increasingly popular in the last years. They are considered great addition for certain rooms such as the nursery, the kids’ room or playroom because they’re soft and have a very nice texture that kids love. But shag rugs are also used throughout the house in rooms that...

Kilims is a term used to describe flat tapestry-woven carpets that come from the Balkans. The term “kilim” comes from the Persian “gelim” and it means “to spread roughly”. These carpets are purely decorative in most cases but they can also serve as prayer rugs. They feature all sorts of patterns and symbols, some geometric...

Carpets and rugs are important accessories and accent pieces for any home’s interior décor. They are often used to add color to a room and they can also be focal points in certain cases. We have selected five models that will surely impress all your guests and that will give character to your home. Wooden...

Rugs are like shoes. They are a seemingly insignificant item that has the incredible ability to make or break the entire ensemble. It’s amazing, the influence of these floor-level pieces. For many of us, it might seem difficult to choose the right rug – do we go neutral? Patterned? Neutrally patterned? Bold? Geometric? Persian? It’s...

I’ve always loved the look of rugs in a dining room. Something about the graphic on the floor set against (or to distract from?) the legginess of the table and chairs just makes me happy. However, as the mother of four young kids, I’ve come to view dining room rugs with a pretty critical eye....

“Manuscrit” is the French word for “manuscript” and it comes from two Latin words, meaning written by hand. Each person’s writing is different from the other and shows special individual particularities. Starting from this the designer Joaquim Ruiz Millet created this beautiful Manuscrit Rug for Nani Marquina. This is part of Nani Marquina’s collection Black...

Spring is my favourite time of the year because this is when nature comes back to life and you can see all the possible colours in the world brought together on a piece of land.They are the spring flowers, coloured in all the shades and tints, spread in the forest, in the fields and in...