History

First of all you will find that oriental rugs bring a sense of history with them. This is because they traditional in design. Even modern oriental rugs take historical motifs that conform to traditions that really help to give your interiors that richness of history.

Exotic appeal

There is also the fact that oriental rugs necessarily call to find the exotic appeal of the East. It is impossible to separate oriental rugs from their origins and this makes them an even more attractive option if you want your interiors to have that exotic appeal too.

Colour and pattern

Oriental rugs are famous because of their wonderfully intricate patterns and fantastic juxtaposition of colours. They really lift your interiors because of these features and they help to add prestige and style to any space they are placed in.

If you want to reduce this negative space and turn it into something much more aesthetically pleasing then you need the help of large rugs. Large rugs come in standard sizes but they can also be found in custom sizes if the dimensions of your apartment are not suitable for the standard sizes available.

Large rugs are really influential at making your apartment look homely. This is particularly the case with soft rugs like shaggy rugs. However, large rugs can also make a really big design statement. Large modern rugs add to the great contemporary feel of a modern apartment. Traditional rugs make an equally big statement but in a more time honoured style.

For example, you can start picking out some really attractive pieces of wall art. Your walls will be able to take a number of large prints so you can make your apartment a real homage to your tastes in art, music, films and so on. This is the ideal way to make your extended areas of wall space work for you – to say something about you at the same time as lifting the entire aesthetic of the space you live in.

The same sort of thing happens when you use large rugs to enjoy your extended areas of floor space. This will be discussed in much greater detail in the next blog post, but it is easy to see how maximising your floor space can contribute to how your apartment looks and feels.

Of course, you do need to find a great way of decorating your open plan apartment when you are planning on living this way. What you need to do in this scenario is look around your apartment and identify its major features and strengths. When you take this approach, you can start to accentuate those features when you sort out your interior design.

To give you a little nudge in the right direction, it is worth taking the space in your apartment as an example of a really great internal feature. Wall space and floor space are in plentiful supply in open plan city centre apartments and you can use these to your advantage with large rugs and great pieces of wall art.

You may think that your property is already really attractive, but you must remember that you have had it decorated in order to meet your own personal tastes when it comes to interior design. Not all of the people who will be interested in renting your property will share your tastes. This is why it is often a good idea to try something a bit more neutral if you are thinking of letting it out.

Plain rugs and other plain soft furnishings work well because they provide something of a blank canvas. Your tenants may bring other things to give the property a personal twist after they have moved in. Beforehand, it is good to know that the place is in good condition but that no dominant style reigns supreme.

Even if the apartment or house you are renting is fully furnished you can make it your own by giving it the type of style that appeals to you most. It is easy to turn very neutral surroundings into something a little bit more traditional. Equally, it is very easy to turn neutral surroundings into more modern spaces.

It is all about the type of rugs you invest in. Modern rugs immediately make a space look more contemporary. Traditional rugs immediately make a space look more traditional. There are other changes you can make using other features, but rugs tend to have the biggest effect because of their prominent positions.

Remember that you are not trying to clutter your living spaces – you are just trying to mix up styles for a quirky effect. You don’t need to buy more and more decorative items in order to achieve this. You can do it using the basics, i.e. your rugs, your window coverings, your furniture and whatever items of wall art you choose to implement.

Traditional rugs are a good place to start with quirky mixtures of styles. Traditional rugs look great in modern environments purely for being throwbacks. This allows them to fit in with more modern ways of decorating. Comfortable throws and cushions help to reduce the more formal sophistication of traditional rugs and the fusion is often attained through this relationship.

You can then use wall art to uphold the colour scheme and improve upon the effect you have already created.

There is likely to be a portion of space where you do most of your moving about in the room. Large rugs are good at filling this space in an attractive way that also fulfils the more practical consideration of being warm underfoot. There is little doubt that this makes the room more comfortable, especially on cold mornings and if you have wooden floors.

You may also have a portion of space by the wide of the bed, perhaps between the bed and the wall. This area may be longer and narrower than the more open portion of space in the main part of the room. This space is a ideal for a nice runner which helps create a more welcoming bit of floor space for when you initially get out of bed each day.

It is partly this sense of versatility that makes traditional rugs favourites all around the UK. One the one hand, traditional rugs have that time honoured appeal that helps make your home look rather palatial and grand. On the other hand, they have the really modern touch that helps make them look really homely and comfortable.

Combining these two effects does a great deal of good at home. Just because traditional rugs are traditional does not mean they have to be confined to more rustic ways of decorating and it does not mean they have to be confined to certain parts of the house. These rugs add something to your surroundings wherever you are and whatever your attitude to design.

What rug underlay does is very important. It allows you to have rugs in the house instead of full scale carpets and it helps to make sure these rugs don’t represent a safety hazard. Rugs can move around on laminate flooring because there is not enough friction between the bottom of the rug and the surface of the floor panels. This makes rugs a slipping hazard, but anti slip underlay prevents this from being a problem.

The underlay increases the friction and allows your rugs to stay in one place even when walked upon regularly. This has an aesthetic effect too in the sense that your rugs retain their symmetry with the walls and the items of furniture in the room by staying exactly in place. Whether you have shaggy rugs, traditional rugs or modern rugs, rug underlay is a must for homes with laminate flooring.