Several years ago Beni Ourain rugs were quite popular in the U.S. These were made by nomadic tribes in the Atlas Mountains spanning Morocco and Algeria. Raw white wool patterned with black or gray stripes or swatches with a long nap made them easily recognizable. We featured a small piece about Beni Ourains here.
We get a lot of questions about the best way to place a rug.
Here are some suggestions with a few principles that you might find helpful.
Rugs can corral a seating area in the middle of a large space and make gathering there more intimate.
Custom rugs can give a space a unique identity.
Tampa designer Mandy Vallowe showed Bob Ford a picture of a rug in a magazine. She thought the rug would work nicely in a condominium she's working on for a client on Harbor Island.
It's like a jigsaw puzzle, only the pieces are improvised straight-sided shapes. Bob developed a sketch for the project.
Faux silk in rugs performs a great service to designers: it provides the wonderful sheen and highlighting of real silk at a fraction of the cost. But nothing is free. Faux silk comes with some risks and disadvantages.
My goal is to point these out to you so that you don't get surprised by an irate client with a rug with durability issues.
If you don't know already, Addison/Dicus & Bailey is out of both showrooms daily showing rugs in the rooms where designers think they will work. There's only one way to find out if a rug is going to work and that's to lay it out in the room.
Here's a short video of a rug showing for designer, Janna Walker of JDW Designs.
2019 is well underway and we have a lot of new rugs in our showrooms. It's not like we planned to have new rugs for the New Year, but it's turned out that way.
In no particular order here is a sampling. Check out the rugs that have new design and/or construction techniques.
Enjoy!
We've enjoyed great success with our closeout program. To celebrate we are bringing you a much larger collection of closeout bargains.
You will notice lots of storage wrinkles in these photos. They can easily be steamed away and will be at purchase time.
Here's hoping that you can find bargains that makes for a great holiday for you or your clients.
We've been thinking that a relatively new flooring product deserves your attention.
Luxury Vinyl Tile (LVT) has been around for a very long time. Its present incarnation has been available for about two years. It has not enjoyed super wide use, but has received lots of acclaim from folks who have tried it.
Although its similarity to the appearance of wood is almost creepy, we are not suggesting that it be a substitute for wood. But it is an alternative for some design solutions.
The holidays are fast approaching. We decided it might be useful to offer up a few tips on getting things done in that busy time so that you are better able to manage client expectations.
Of course there are exceptions to every situation, good and bad. The following scenarios we can easily handle within approximately two weeks. Check with us to make sure before you inform your client.
