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A BUYERS GUIDE FOR ORIENTAL RUGS
As stated, it's standard with
most dealers to let you try out different carpets on a "free trial"
basis. This gives you an opportunity to see the carpets you have chosen
in your home without distraction. Below are a few helpful hints to
guide you through the design stage of your new purchase.
Shopping For Your Rugs
When shopping, come prepared
with room sizes and general layouts. Bring color photos of your
rooms, if possible, fabric swatches. Include snippets from
magazines or other pictures that show the effect you're trying to
achieve.
Traditionally, floor
coverings, furniture, wall hangings and other furnishing are used to
balance a room. Make a layout in your mind, then draw it on paper.
Use cut-outs to create functional areas in the rooms. For example,
intimate areas for conversation require a relatively tight arrangement
of furniture pieces. You can visually group the set by placing
them around or on top of an area rug.
Returning home with the "trial" or newly purchased
rugs
 Oriental rugs create an
effect wherever you place them. If you don't like the result,
change them until you do like the "look" of the room. Get started
by creating a private space that's uniquely you. Or, you can work
with floor-covering and design professionals to create a showplace.
Put an exclamation point on the lifestyle statement you've been striving
to make.
Function comes first
Place your largest functional
pieces first, sofa in the living room, bed in the bedroom, desk in the
study facing the focal point of the room...like a window, fireplace or
entertainment center. Distribute the pieces evenly for balance and
best effect. For a traditional or formal feeling, a central
medallion rug will help define the symmetry of the room.
Architectural features like fireplaces can be showcased by centering
rugs in front of them. Remember, a rug placed under a dining table
should be large enough to fit the chairs when they are fully extended.
Otherwise, the room, furniture and rug will all lose dignity.
Create your space to please yourself
Feel free to mix styles to
create new and exciting interiors. If you use antique furniture,
you may find a contemporary rug will lift the room and give it a new,
refreshing look. Conversely, modern pieces on an antique-style rug
can give the room richness.
Accessories with purpose
Take
these gorgeous pillow
refurbished and beautiful again by someone who may have collected some
interesting discarded pieces that were sewn into these exquisite
pillows.
 Finally, add accents for
secondary activities. Create a reading nook in a bedroom, a game
area in a family room, a computer desk in the library, or a focal point
on a long empty wall or in the kitchen. Rugs can showcase the
accent through color, texture, pattern and shape - any one of the
oriental rug's eye-catching characteristics.
They enrich your life with
evolving beauty while adding warm respite from cold marble, smooth slate
and burnished wood. When properly cared for, they can be enjoyed
for many generations to come..
Finally, there are so many
factors that determine the quality and value of an oriental rug that it
takes caution and thorough study to make an intelligent purchase. Be
sure to ask a lot of questions because this is a purchase of great value
and that valuable carpet or rug appreciates with time depending upon the
origin.
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rugmaster@orientialrugcleaning.com
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