| When it comes to decorating, don’t forget about your floors. Rugs are an instant way to add color, pattern or interest to a room, while also protecting your valuable flooring from everyday wear and tear. Rugs can make a smaller room seem larger, a larger room more intimate, and they can even create different “zones” within a common space. |
When it comes to decorating, don’t forget about your floors.
Rugs are an instant way to add color, pattern or interest to a room, while also protecting your valuable flooring from everyday wear and tear. Rugs can make a smaller room seem larger, a larger room more intimate, and they can even create different “zones” within a common space.
Rugs also add warmth to cold floors and cover up imperfections. They muffle sounds—a great asset for apartment living. What’s more, they tie together the colors of your furniture and walls. It’s pretty obvious, when it comes to decorating...rugs matter.
But, with so many choices of style, color, pattern, fabrication and size, how do you choose? Relax...you can count on BrylaneHome® to take the worry out of rug buying. Our selection is bigger and better than ever and we’ve upgraded the quality of our rugs to give you even more value for your money.
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Color your world!
When choosing which color rug to buy consider this...do you want the rug to enhance, tie together or complement the existing decor? Do you want your rug to be the focal point of your room, or a quiet underpinning to your overall decorating scheme?
• The right color can set the mood, or create a visual illusion to make the room appear larger (or smaller) than it actually is. Generally, light-colored rugs make a room seem more spacious, while darker colors tend to cozy up a room.
• Cool color palettes of blues and greens lend a serene, peaceful note. Spicy shades of red, gold and brown add warmth. Neutrals are quietly sophisticated, while bold brights can instantly liven up an otherwise subdued room.
• For real decorating impact (particularly if your walls are pale or neutral), add a patterned rug—now available in an array of traditional, Oriental and modern designs.
It’s All in the Weave
Different weaving techniques result in different types, qualities and prices of rugs. From labor intensive handcrafted styles, to those made with cutting-edge technology, discover exactly how it’s done.
Handwoven
• Hand-Hooked—A hooking tool is pushed through a foundation cloth by hand to the front of the rug and pulls the yarn to the back resulting in a looped surface.
• Hand-Knotted—Individually hand-tied knots comprised of single strands of yarn looped around two adjacent warp threads.
• Hand-Tufted—A weaver uses a hand-tufting gun to push yarn through the back of an inked-on foundation cloth that’s been stretched over a loom. When the rug is removed from the loom, a scrim and layer of latex is placed on the back. To protect your floors, a back cloth is sewed onto the latex backing.
• Hand-Carved—A skilled weaver uses hand shears to cut a design into the rug resulting in a sculpted rug with a unique look.
Machine woven
• Jacquard—A mechanized loom with an endless belt of punched cards. The card contains holes that are specially arranged to produce the rug’s unique weave.
• Wilton Loom—Machine-made rugs that are similar in appearance to more expensive hand-knotted rugs. The rug pile is woven between two backings and then split down the middle, resulting in two separate rugs.
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Size Matters
Choosing the right size rug for your room can seem almost as challenging as selecting the color or pattern. Relax, our size selection tips will ensure that you purchase exactly the right size rug for your room and your furnishings.
Room-Size Area Rugs:
• Always try to have an equal amount of flooring exposed on the perimeter of the rug. Not possible? Make sure at least two of the four sides are equal.
• It’s OK to have the front legs of a piece of furniture on the rug and the back legs off the rug, provided the furniture doesn’t wobble or look lopsided. Try placing furniture coasters under the back legs for balance.
Rugs and Furniture:
• Area rugs should be about the same length and width as the furnishings. For maximum impact, leave a bit of flooring exposed between the area rug and the furniture.
• Area rugs should be large enough to fit all four legs of a coffee table. Typically 4"x6" or 5"x8" sizes work well under coffee tables.
Dining Room Rugs:
• You can determine which size rug you need by measuring the length and width of the table and adding 4 feet to each measurement. Note: most dining room tables will require a rug that is at least 8 feet wide.
• You should avoid having the chair legs fall off the rug as people are seated or pulling their chairs away from the table.
Fiber Facts
When it comes to buying area rugs today, you have many choices, not just in color, pattern and size, but also in fabrication. Natural wool and cotton, or easy-care synthetics—understand your options and choose the rug that works best for your room, your budget and your lifestyle.
Natural Fibers
• Wool—The ultimate carpet fiber. Durable, soft, easy to care for, with an unequaled ability to drink in dyes for the truest, most long-lasting color.
• Cotton—A more casual option, cotton rugs are softer, but less durable than wool.
• Sisal—The strongest, most durable of all natural fibers, sisal is made from the leaves of the Agave plant. Wonderfully colorfast and a great casual rug option.
Synthetic Fibers
• Nylon— A great choice for your high-traffic areas, nylon rugs are durable and easy to maintain and clean.
• Polypropylene/Olefin—A great value, polypropylene styles are usually less expensive than other fibers. The most stain resistant of all synthetic fiber, polypropylene actually repels water and is impervious to most stains.
• Acrylic—Fade, stain and mildew-resistant. Acrylic fibers are often found in bath mats and rugs.
Rug Terminology 101
An informed customer makes the smartest purchasing decisions. Get to know all the latest rug lingo so you’ll feel confident about your rug-buying decision.
• Border—A contrasting solid color or a decorative design repeated around the outside of the rug.
• Field—The solid or patterned background of the rug inside the border.
• Heat Set—To give polypropylene a wool-like appearance, the yarns are set with heat resulting in twisted yarns.
• Line Count—The number of knots or stitches per square inch. Generally, the more knots or stitches the tighter the weave and the better the quality.
• Medallion—A round or oval design in the center of a rug.
• Pile—Surface yarns which comprise the face of the rug.
• Stitches/Needle Count—The number of loops of yarn. Rugs with a higher stitch or needle count are denser and tend to last longer and wear better than more loosely woven rugs.
• Warp and Wefts—Warp yarns are the stationary thread on the loom and are the strongest part of the rug. Warp yarns are intersected with wefts—the filling yarn woven through the warps.
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