Rugs make for great home features. Some say they’re as critical as foyer features such as the design and spiral of a staircase, or even a chandelier. Indeed, rugs have this potential, but they also have the potential to the other way as well. Rugs can easily be misplaced—and in fact are. Rugs have the ability to absolutely throw a room’s symmetry completely off—and that may be the desired effect. But in this article, you’ll find out what you need to know about rugs, in regards to positioning within a room, and as well as a few tips on purchasing and maintaining a rug. Before we get started though, I’d like to think about what a rug is, what its function is. A rug, does it clean your feet or soles? No, not really. It shouldn’t, not necessarily. You wouldn’t want to make a rug a receptacle of your feet or indoor slippers’ debris. To do this would be absolutely tragic. First and foremost, the piece is typically a center of attraction for an area—says a sitting area—or even an entire room. Why would you want to turn this thing into your foot traffic’s debris receptacle? No, quite the opposite is true. You want the piece to be a clean place, a place that’s comfortable. And that’s one of its winning and primary features: comfort—style comes second. Like everything else that’s been around for millennia, rugs have evolved and stuck around in society for the main reason that they provide comfort to a place. A place for your feet. Humanity’s long understood the importance of caring for feet. From stories in the Bible of washing feet, to contemporarily pseudo scientific reflexology, the feet’s comfort isn’t only a feel-good dimension to modern living; it’s critical to living—period. “Take care of yourself. Take care of your feet,” some rug merchandisers like to say.
You should, and you should plan and place your carpets around this idea and principal function. Teenage pop stars often place rugs in appropriately and incorrectly. Because of their aesthetic appeal, they’d splay these pieces across high traffic areas. You might have to cross a particular floor area for example to get from the entrance of the room to the room’s powder room for instance. Now, pop stars must view rugs as a sort of red carpet, but they’re not supposed to serve this sort of purpose. Using the rug as a walking cushion from one place to another isn’t what a rug is supposed to do. That’s what a carpet’s supposed to do. Use a rug for a sitting area, where you’ll be a while, a sort of horizontal pancake of a foot rest that sits on the ground. That’s how you should be thinking of rugs. It’s called the “red carpet” not the “red rug.” Place a rug in an area where you’ll be lounging, sitting, or lying for a while. An area like this might a section of a room designated for reading, for watching TV, or for having coffee—these are just a few examples. Maintaining a clean and comfortable carpet or rug involves knowing your local carpet cleaner quite well. This brings up another point in positioning and placement, you’ll want to place your carpet or rug in such a way that you’ll be able to take the piece out with relative ease without having to move too many other pieces in the room. 