The Flooring Guru

The holidays are almost here. You have cleaned the house and are beginning preparation for the holidays. Although things seem ready, something isn’t quite right.

In the northeast, it is time to move inside for the winter months. That means you will be spending more time inside.

You need something different, something to cheer you up for the time you are going to spend indoors. Let me make a suggestion.

Whatever your budget might be, change the way your flooring looks. Try a new modern area rug for the living room. Go bold with a new hardwood floor. Spend a lot of time in the kitchen? A new floor is a great way to remodel without tearing out the entire kitchen.

Go ahead… Cheer yourself up throughout the up and coming season and give your flooring a fresh new look!

Area rugs serve a wide variety of purposes in home décor. They can be used to bring the look of a room together by matching them to the color of the upholstery, paint, and accessories such as pillows and curtains. They can help define separate spaces within a larger room or add a touch of warmth and color to a hardwood or tile floor. Using area rugs to tie the color from one room to the other is a great way to bring continuity to your home. The possibilities are limited only to your imagination!

Because they can serve such a wide variety of purposes, area rugs come in all shapes, colors, sizes, and themes to express your own personal style. From conservative to extravagant, subtle to absolutely crazy, area rugs can be the very fabric that turns a room into a conversation piece or the very spot you choose to sprawl out on for a romantic evening!

OK, enough of what you might already know about them, what you might not know is that you can have an area rug custom designed and carved to your liking. Imagination is the key to this one. If you can imagine it, an area rug can be made into it. I have seen custom rugs that look like Marilyn Monroe. I have made custom rugs that have borders around them with designs inset into them that pick up the very same patterns in the furniture.

Custom area rugs are unique in design and individuality. Think outside the box on this one and let your imagination create your next area rug possibility.

When my wife and I moved into a new home a few months ago, we were generally thrilled with the investment. As you might expect, there were a few small improvements to be made, but the place is far from being a fixer-upper. There was really only one issue that we couldn’t get past – one problem that had to be remedied immediately. Something had to be done about the atrocious tile work in the kitchen.

At first we thought about retiling the space, but that would have cost too much. So we experimented with a few modern area rugs, which effectively obscured the offending tile and actually made the overall design quite palatable. Once we save up enough money, we might just redo the floor, but for the time being the rugs will have to do.