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Nepal Holiday to Delay Special Rug Orders

From Oct 1 through Nov. 7 all Nepalese rug manufacturing stops to celebrate the Dashain Festival.

If you place a special order for a rug to go on the loom in Nepal, it will not be ready by the American Holiday season.

Please keep this in mind as you manage projects due around the Holidays.

When to Use a Tufted Rug When do you want to use a tufted rug? When your budget calls for it.

More Custom Carpets and Masterful Stair Runners At Dicus Ford, the installation company of Addison/Dicus & Bailey, long time installer Bob Ford Jr. is really good at making custom carpets and making them look great.

Make Furniture and the Rug Work Together The day has come. Addison/Dicus & Bailey has arrived with your client's new rug. We've unrolled it and are waiting to replace the furniture. Uh, exactly how do you want us to do this?

Uncustomary Custom Carpets

Sometimes you have to do uncustomary things to carpets to get the look you want.

Check out these stair runners.

 

Installation master, Bob Ford, Jr. made a unique intersection from a rather complex pattern.

 

Pop! How Small Rugs Can Provide an Outsized Look A famous interior designer said that every room needs an element of surprise.

Color, Are You Ever Coming Back?

Folks here are always talking about color. Or the lack of it.

Our most popular rugs are, generally speaking, in grays and blues in subdued designs. They support rooms with a similar serene feeling.

More on Cowhide Rugs Who can forget seeing spits roasting giant slabs of cattle on country roads in Argentina? Who does not love the country that invented chimmichurri sauce? Not to mention the tango! Now the creative people of the pampas are founding a new industry from their famous cattle culture: rugs fashioned from custom cut and custom dyed cowhides.

How to Make Your Wood Flooring Installation a Success Wood flooring installation can turn into a disaster. We want to tell you about ways to avoid it.

Pantone, Rugs and Fabric - First Look Pantone took us by surprise with its duel selection rose quartz and serenity (blue). Pantone's website explains, "A symbolic color selection; a color snapshot of what we see taking place in our culture that serves as an expression of a mood and an attitude."