How to Position Your Handmade Rugs?

Bringing warmth and style to your apartment with a decorative element dating back over twenty-five centuries is possible. The rug is back in interior design, find out how to choose it and arrange it at home. Our professional advice.

Carpets do not always have a good reputation, considered old or difficult to maintain. However, they can be great allies when it comes to decoration.

Depending on their colors, shape, material, and location, they set the tone for your interior.

Why Have A Rug At Home?

Carpets are not very popular in modern and city apartments. "The carpet is a culture, a bit like the culture of the painting hanging on the wall, not everyone adheres to it", explains Hélène Paoli.

More concretely, a handmade rug can be beautiful but above all useful. Yes Yes! It has many assets to create pleasant rooms to live in.

The Mat to Delimit the Zones

"In large rooms such as fully open-plan living rooms, the carpet makes it possible to clearly identify the spaces", develops the interior designer. For example, you can place a large rug under the dining table and chairs to clearly define the dining area. "

The Carpet Dresses the Room

"For floors that are a little faded or that would not be to the taste of the inhabitants or in harmony with the decoration of the room, the carpet can be very useful. It can revive a dull parquet, recall a color code of the room or yet bring a touch of modernity to an overly classic place.

The Carpet Brings Warmth

Not everyone is lucky enough to have a beautiful waxed parquet floor in their apartment or house. For tiled or linoleum type floors, the carpet can bring a certain warmth to the room, provided that natural materials such as wool are used instead.

In addition to making the spaces convivial, it improves the comfort of the inhabitants. Placed down the bed or at the foot of a dressing room in a bedroom, the handmade Bokhara rug will be very appreciated by bare feet, much more than a cool and hard floor.

The Soundproof Mat

The carpet also has soundproofing powers. Ideal for large rooms lightly loaded with decorative objects or furniture, it works as a sound trap. Reducing echoes from the room and isolating neighbors below, the carpet can, in fact, play this role of sound insulation.

Positioning Your Mat: What Are the Pitfalls to Avoid?

A rug is not easy to place at home. You have to pay attention to many factors so that it does not interfere with traffic and require too much maintenance.

A Rug for Which Room?

The carpet finds its place in many corners of the house: living room, dining room, bedroom, office ... However, some rooms should be avoided.

What Type of Carpet for Which Room?

There are many types of rugs. The most popular are woolen, long curl, mixed pile, dyed or short pile. There are also other natural materials such as sisal, rattan, seagrass or even leather. Without forgetting the carpets in synthetic materials (mainly polyester).

So Which Carpet To Choose?

For places of relaxation such as the bedroom, comfortable long-pile rugs with large loops, very thick and very soft will find their place perfectly.

Maintenance will be easier because it will not be in contact with food and we will walk on it rather with bare feet.

In children's rooms, prefer plastic rugs, similar to beach mats that are not afraid of stains and whose small budget will allow you to change them as your little one grows.

What About Outdoor Rugs?

Ziegler Rugs can be used outdoors, but again, you have to choose them carefully. In short, carpeting outdoors is possible, but only in fine weather.

Adapt Your Carpet to Your Lifestyle

In the living room and other places of life, everything is allowed. The choice of carpet simply needs to be in line with your lifestyle. "We will avoid white carpets in places of passage or frequent party, for example. A stain of wine arrives quickly and often irrecoverable.

The dining room will prefer a low-pile rug to facilitate maintenance and make it easier to move the chairs around the table.

If you really want to install a carpet in your bathroom or your kitchen, despite the humidity and the difficulty of maintenance, make it easier for yourself by opting for a natural material (seagrass, rattan ...), with a non-slip and waterproof underlay. Remember to ventilate it regularly.