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Area Rugs 101: How to Choose and Place Rugs in Every Room · Seated with Furniture Row

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Hi, and welcome to the Seated podcast with Furniture Row.
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I'm Jessa, creative director and design extraordinaire, and I'm.
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Barb, interior designer and buyer.
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Welcome back. We're getting into a really
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controversial topic today, Barb. It's.
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So controversial. I think so.
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And you know what it is? It's rugs you haven't guessed
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from our from our set today, which if you're listening, we
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just have a bunch of rugs samples on set.
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And but they're they're nicely woven into the design.
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I think you did a good job with that.
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Thank you. Yeah.
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It's not like who dumped all those there anyway.
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Why are rugs even controversial? You know, we're going to talk
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about that. Yeah.
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It's do you use a rug or not? Yeah, how, how you know?
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And what's the right kind and how to shop for rugs because
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everybody needs to divide up their space in their home.
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Rugs are great for that. And it's really hard to know
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when you're sifting through thousands what is the best to
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buy. So we're going to give you a
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little guide here. It's.
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Hard when there's so many to choose from and nowadays it's
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like rugs galore. I yeah, yeah.
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Well, because it can really bring a room together.
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That's the point. It's.
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Like a piece of art. Really is.
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Yeah, yeah. Art everywhere.
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On the floor, on the walls. I love it.
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Well, first I'm going to go through a little bit of fact or
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fiction with you. Oh.
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About rugs cause. It's or no let's.
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Just have some some fun. This is a new new topic, new new
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little fun game that we can play.
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So, all right, the largest area rug ever made covers more than
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100 football fields and is displayed in the Palace of
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Versailles in France. True or false?
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Fact or fiction? Is it on the wall or on the
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floor? That's not disclosed.
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I'm going to say fiction. That is fiction.
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OK, well, the Palace of Versailles displays remarkable
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rugs. There is none of that size that
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exists. I mean, 100 football fields is
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pretty big. Yeah.
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I mean, Challenge is out there now for anybody because there's
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not one that exists. So if you want to try to make
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that happen, it's a record that has been uncaptured.
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Next one is the oldest rug is still in existence and was
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discovered over 2500 years ago in a frozen Siberian tomb.
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Fiction. That one's facts.
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Oh, it is, It is OK. It's called the Pazurek carpet.
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Maybe our producer can correct me at some point, but it's.
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Where is it now? It's remarkably well preserved
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and showcases detailed craftsmanship.
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So. I want to see a picture I'm.
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Thinking it's probably in Siberia still.
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Yes, Hermitage museum and Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Oh it's in the Hermitage museum in Saint Petersburg, Russia.
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Which makes sense if it was found in Siberia.
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So that's cool of where Pozzuric rug, OK, you know, it wasn't
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horribly far off, but PAZYRYK, if anybody wants to look it up.
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The tufted rug industry in the United States began when New
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England sea captains brought the pattern drugs from China to
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Massachusetts in the early 1800s.
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No, I want to say that's false. Yeah.
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Just is it false? It is false.
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OK, it's fiction. The tufted rug industry actually
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became began in Dalton, GA in the early 1900s, stemming from a
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local woman's innovation. So.
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Yeah, a lot of rugs are made in Georgia.
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Really. Yeah.
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Wow. There's a lot of carpets made.
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Yeah, they've got a long history with it.
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Then the first area rugs were woven from gold dreads and used
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exclusively by Roman emperors. I want to say true.
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That's false. The first area rugs were made
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out of more common materials and available out of what was
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available. So like animal skins, natural
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fibers will, Yeah. So maybe were they used more for
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a purpose like not? Necessarily decorating, yeah.
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Yeah, like they're cold and they need.
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A rod or they don't want things to be so dusty.
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Yeah, you know they want to in the desert.
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Yeah, sounds nice. Not that that was in the desert.
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Who knows? Who knows?
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Who knows? Yeah, some ancient cultures
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valued rugs so highly that they use them as currency to barter
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for goods and services. True, That is true.
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People bartered intricate hand woven rugs in exchange for goods
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and services, making them a form of soft money in historical
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economies. And I feel like, you know,
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Facebook marketplace is kind of the same today.
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You know, we're bartering soft goods.
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Sometimes you trade. You do instead of paying.
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For it, people will ask, would you take a trade?
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So it's a lot of bartering out there.
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Ancient Egyptians believed that stepping on a rug before noon
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brought bad luck for the rest of the day.
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No. That is fiction.
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Our producer made that one up, so yeah.
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So anyway, you know, that leads us a little bit more fun, fun
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way to lead us into the rough conversation.
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And yeah, we're gonna talk about some of the biggest mistakes
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made when it comes to incorporating them into your
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home. Basically anything these
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decorating sense ladies do do the opposite is what I've
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learned. Because these.
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I used to watch the show. Oh my goodness.
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Yeah, they are a menace Together.
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They are painting the floor with paint to look like a rug.
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There they are in their matching overalls, and it's a.
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Perfectly beautiful wood floor. Yeah, it, it is.
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And I don't know how how you would refinish the.
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I don't think it'd be very easy to refinish that floor, get that
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away. Oh, and then they're putting
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decals. At first I was like, you know,
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who knows, maybe they could make it work.
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I've seen a painted wood floor that looks great.
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I mean, you know, a really cool design, but not what they're
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doing. That's scary, especially with
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the fake. Tassels it with the black
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diamonds. It looks like the Flintstones.
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Yeah. So they're doing here.
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So this is actually less bad, but she's putting in a fake
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sconce now anyway. The floor was and not good.
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I wonder if anyone will ever look back on any of our designs
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and be like, what were they thinking?
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I always think about that. I always think about that.
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But you know, I think that this video has surfaced recently
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'cause it gives everybody a good chuckle.
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So if there is something that people make fun of in the
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future, just enjoy that you gave them the laugh.
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Yeah. And that you're not these making
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the you're not making that bad of a mistake.
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That's what I know. I try to do things a little bit
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more classic, but but who knows? I mean, years and years from
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now, somebody might be having a show talking about it.
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Yeah. Talking about what we did.
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So anyway, if you don't want to paint a rug on your floor, I
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know that some people do like that painted floor rug.
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Apparently it's an antique thing that was done at some point, but
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it's just it's not for everyone and it's not always done well.
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I don't know what it's called. The practice of painting the rug
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on your floor. Mistake to.
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Me, it's like the permanent makeup of rugs and it's just,
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you know, it could be done. Well, maybe, but in a lot of
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cases, maybe not so much. Also I do.
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Love, you know, an old farmhouse with a porch paint on it.
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I do love that. What's porch paint Just.
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Porch paint for your your porch. You paint the whole porch the
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same color. You could do the same.
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Color. You could do a pattern that's
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like this, but. Painted wood.
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Yeah, but there's something very nice about that.
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Crafty. Yeah, Yeah.
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Well, OK, so if you are going to buy an actual rug though, where
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do you start? Like if you're just at the very
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beginning, say you already have a whole living room set up and
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it just needs to be tied together with a rug, how do you
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make a decision on what style and color to bring in?
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Well, that's a good question. So you already have all of your
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furniture. Do you have art in the room?
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Everything. Yeah, of art.
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So I what I would do is find out, look through magazines,
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look online, look at the styles that really speak to you,
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whether that's more traditional or transitional, contemporary,
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modern, whatever that is, maybe minimalist, And then go after
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that type of style that speaks to you most.
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And then pull colors from your room and find a rug that works
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within those colors. Yeah.
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And that's a easy paint by number.
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Same with if you do it the opposite.
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If you have nothing in the room and you're like, I don't know
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where to start. I know I do want a rug, but I
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have no clue what color palette to use.
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A rug is a great jumping off point to start with and you just
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pull colors from the rug. That's very paint by numbers,
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but it will look good at the end if you if you do it that way.
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Yeah. So in the end, you just kind of
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choose where you want the direction of that room to really
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veer to and you choose a rug accordingly and you try to tie
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together the colors that are already there or you bring in
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colors that match the rug if you don't have anything in the room,
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so. The other thing too is I have
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found I love pattern rugs. OK, a lot of pattern, but then,
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you know, it's like, do you want to live with all that pattern?
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So you have to ask yourself that question.
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And maybe you know, if you're really on the fence about a few
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rugs, maybe you bring a few home and then look at them in your
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space and whichever 1 looks best you take the other ones back.
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I'm not saying keep them in your home for months on end, that's
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not it. But just look at which ones work
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better for your your space. I find I'm I'm always going
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towards the more pattern colorful, but then when I get it
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in my home I tend to go more subdued.
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Right. Yeah, right.
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Well, yeah, because when you're shopping, that's what jumps out
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at you, the more pattern colorful.
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But I've been in the same boat and I think looking at the up
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close photos of the rug, I wouldn't buy a rug unless I
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could really zoom in on that pattern because a lot of times
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from afar the pattern looks different.
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And when you start unrolling it in your home, it's just it
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presents different than you expect.
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So just like zoom in, make sure you know what you're getting
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from afar. It probably still will look like
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it does in the zoomed out photo, but it's helpful to zoom in.
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And yeah, I think that just maybe taking a photo, like
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usually I'll put a like a screenshot from my computer if
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I'm shopping online or a photo from the store if I'm shopping
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in a store, kind of in context of my space.
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So I'll like take a photo of my space and then that sort of the
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rug and like kind of collage it and there's like, you know, you
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can either like put them right next to each other on your phone
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or in Canva or something like that.
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That's. An easy way to look at.
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It to kind of see like, does this really go here?
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Is it going to really kind of mess up the vibe in some way or
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another? So I think being able to
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visualize the rug in your space, or I mean there's a lot of new
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like visualize it in your space features.
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Yeah, that, that's really helpful.
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And then if you do want to go into the store, you could bring
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maybe a pillow from your sofa or chair, or you know, if it's a
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rug for a bedroom, maybe you bring your bed covering or you
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know, something from that room to look at it in the store.
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Definitely bringing a photo because that's key.
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It's just, it's hard to just imagine your room and like
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remember every little detail. And it, it is really helpful to
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have a photo because maybe there's like a a piece of art
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that you're not really thinking of that you could kind of, and
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it's prominent enough that you could pull a color out of and
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use the rug for that purpose. So yeah, I think that's
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definitely a good place to start.
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I want to make sure everybody's on board with some of the the
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rug speak definitions, rug terminology, so that way things
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are less confusing. But basically the knot of a rug
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is basically the basic, you know, the the knot of fabric.
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Like this rug here? I don't know.
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Can you see that? Structural unit of the rug is
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the knot, whether it's a shag carpet or it's, you know, more
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of a low pile rug. Pile is the surface area of the
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rug formed by the ends of the knots.
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Technically, but it's the height for me.
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Like and somehow. Thinner.
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Pile like the pile of the rug. Yeah, How thin or thick is the
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rug? Is the pile?
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A rug pad is designed to be used under rugs on both hard surfaces
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and carpets, and it will reduce wear and tear, help absorb
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impact and make vacuuming easier.
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So. Do you use a rug grip or a rug
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pad under your it's? Just like it's too extra for me.
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But I think it would it would increase the I I'm not debating
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the value of a rug pad, but I'm lazy and cheap so.
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You know, I did have a rug pad under one of my rugs once, and
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then once I got rid of that rug, I never used another rug pad.
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Maybe I need to revisit that. Maybe they're better nowadays
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than they used to be. Yeah, I don't know what in the
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technology could have gotten better, but somehow I'm thinking
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like if your house got really hot, would a rug pad stick to
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the floor and get stuck? There, I don't know, I would be
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afraid of that. Yeah, me too.
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Hopefully it wouldn't do that. I think it would preserve your
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hardwood floors better if it didn't stick to them.
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So maybe that's something for our producer to look up it, you
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know, does the rug pad leave debris if it's a cheap one or
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it's old? Well, I know like when I
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vacuumed that rug and then when I remove the rug and the rug pad
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was there, it had collected dirt.
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So you really need to like when you're really vacuuming, just
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roll up the rug, vacuum underneath, and then vacuum the
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rug too. Yeah, I mean, it will also help,
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especially if you have kids, keep the rug in place.
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Sure, you're not gonna like usually rugs have some little
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grip underneath, but if they don't, your kid isn't going to
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go sliding and they hit the rug. All right, we got an answer on
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the rug pad. Yeah, I don't know.
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But basically what she said was rug pads can break down in one
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to three years and quicker if they are cheaper.
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And they can definitely leave residue and ruin your floor.
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So if they're cheap, particularly so you don't want
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to get the cheap rug pad. The quality really matters and
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you should be replacing it, otherwise you can end up with a
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mess on your floor to have to refurbish so.
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Not good. Not for wood floor, yeah.
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Yeah. Especially yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. So maybe if you have kids, look
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for a rug with a built in backing that's of quality, it
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would be my recommendation, but or a quality rug pad and make
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sure you just switch it out. Nobody wants to slip, but nobody
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wants to ruin floors. Yeah.
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And then knot count is a big deal because it's the number of
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knots per square inch or square decimeter, and it usually, but
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not always means better quality and higher price.
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If it's a higher knot count, it's a higher price.
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Tracking is like what? The imprints of your feet that
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are left behind so but it it's not permanent, it's just.
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Yeah, it's just. Some rugs there's tracking so.
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I was going to tell you when you're talking about not count
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some of the higher end rugs that have the higher knot count, if
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you flip them over, they are just as beautiful on the
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backside as they are in the front side.
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I love looking at really nice rugs for that reason.
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So cool. But also you could even design A
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room with it, you know, on the opposite side.
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You could put that on the opposite side and then sometimes
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put it on the other side. That's a little trick that
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designers do from time to time. That is really interesting.
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You have an example of a high end rug, don't you?
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Let's show. Let's show it.
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This rug here, it's a pretty great rug.
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It's not as high of a knot count as what we were talking about,
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but it is it is pretty nice and it shows.
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This is the backside of the rug. Very beautiful on the side.
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And then if you flip it over to the side, yeah.
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Yeah, can you all see? That I mean, it's so beautiful,
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both sides, both sides like. Just as beautiful, to be honest,
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it's just one is a little bit lighter and more of like a not a
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jute, but it it looks like a rougher material, which is it's
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nice. It's really beautiful.
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It's, you know, do you want the soft?
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Side of the of the rug or the rougher side of the rug.
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And I think, you know, you could go either way.
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Change it up. Yeah, you could change it up
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because you can really see the the rougher side.
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So that's kind of nice. So yeah, I kind of want to, now
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that we've gotten some just basics out of the way, I really
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wanted to get an expert's opinion.
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And I know you are an expert, but I talked to her rug buyer
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just so we could get her take on like what to consider when
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you're buying a rug and what to look for because I have no idea
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on anything. And like, what does she have to?
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Say so? I asked.
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Her What are the elements of a quality rug and how do you tell
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if a rug is good quality when you're shopping?
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I know we already talked about the knot count, but that's not
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all that matters. Like she said to look into
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whether it's natural and or synthetic and material and the
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way the fibers have been dyed as well as the knot density.
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Some of the more inexpensive rugs are very thin and you can
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feel the backing even when you know you're just walking on
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them. So that's something that's
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quality of a low quality rug. And higher quality rugs produce
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more fibers per square inch, which gives them a more plush
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feel under foot. So it's going to be plushier
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even in low pile rugs. So, and when she mentioned how
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rugs are dyed, a solution dyed is often praised as the ultimate
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performance and it's extremely resistant to fading and
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staining. So solution dyed high or not
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count or point count it's also called.
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And then you know, natural fibers like wool, jute, cotton
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and bamboo are really good quality.
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Silk would probably be like creme de la creme.
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Like that is where your expensive rugs come in.
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Have you ever? Seen a silk rug in person, they
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are amazing. It will the artisan.
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Quality is just crazy. It's beautiful and it feels.
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So soft, yeah. And the hand woven rugs are
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obviously going to be like really high end because they
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are, you know, just the time that it takes and the labor
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obviously. So hand woven high material or
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high quality material like silk rugs are going to be really a a
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lot more expensive. They can get up there for sure.
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Yeah, a hand knotted. Rug can be you've all sorts of
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price points. You'd be a surprise and an
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antique rug that's a hand knot could be worth a fortune.
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Just depends on on the rug. Yeah.
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Haley, what is the most expensive rug in the world?
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I'm curious now, Like what? What are we talking about when
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we're talking about, like, really rugs?
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It's just entertaining. Not that I'm going to buy one,
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but antique Persian rugs sold at Sotheby's auction in 2013.
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Yeah, 33.7 million. Dollars 30. $3.7 million what
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size was? It.
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It doesn't say, but does it show a picture?
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It's insane. OK, OK, OK.
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The previous one before that was 9.6 million, but I've seen
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that's a lot of money it. Is I've seen rugs.
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In showrooms that are like 20 or $30,000 and thought like.
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$100,000 and you know what I mean?
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People buy them. Yeah.
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Oh yeah. Heirloom rugs.
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You can pass them down. It's like a piece of art.
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You know it. It's an heirloom.
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It really is a piece of art. Yeah, yeah.
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And I would suggest. Let me just say buying a hand
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knot antique rug, you could go into a resale shop.
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You never know what you might find there.
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You could find an antique very valuable rug and in a resale
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shop or or in like a. Thrift store at a thrift store.
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Sometimes you really find some. Treasures there.
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That's right. So.
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So don't be afraid. To, like, buy a used drug, yeah.
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Yeah, yeah. So, yeah.
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So she was saying as far as like high high quality wool tends to
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be the more expensive being a natural fiber and it's great,
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has great stain resistant properties and clean ability.
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Did she say anything? About like the type of wool,
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like a New Zealand wool or anything like that, she didn't
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mention. Which type of wool?
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But maybe that's another good Haley question.
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Which type of wool is the most high end or the best considered
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the best and then hand woven? Yeah, like I said, is going to
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be more expensive because the knowledge is going time.
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Persian wool using Persian carpets is like the highest and
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but I mean, there's a lot of great wools out there.
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So, you know, maybe it's about the company that the, you know,
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that's selling the rug. And usually if you find a really
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good company, they'll talk about their wool quality and where
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it's from, I would think. I wonder if the sheep.
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Are just as expensive, probably. Yeah, I mean, think of all the
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things that the sheep can do. It's just, you know, they have
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the wool, you can make cheese, can they?
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Really make cheddar. I mean he.
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Don't make cheese. He don't make cheese if you have
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a sheep if you're so inclined. So anyway, we digress.
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But yeah, so I said, or I asked Diane also, what are some of the
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things to stay away from when buying an area rug?
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And she said choosing a rug that is too high maintenance for the
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room that it's in would be bad. So it's kind of like user,
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what's your tolerance? Yeah, it like.
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For high maintenance for. Example if.
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You're looking to add a rug in a dining room.
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Don't choose use a shag rug or something that has a really high
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pile that's really thick because breakfast crumbs are going to
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get trapped in there and it's going to be really hard to
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clean. Nobody.
26:35
I don't even know if they make rug Rakes.
26:41
Yeah, you don't know what the efficient way to clean like a a
26:46
shag rug would be, but it sounds like it would be really high
26:49
maintenance and I think they used.
26:51
Like when they had shag carpet way back when.
26:54
I think there were Rakes that they, well, there's vacuum.
26:57
Settings particularly for really high pile shag carpets because
27:04
it really the suction has to be higher and if you don't set it
27:08
to the right things are going to get.
27:11
Things are going to grow in there, I just remember.
27:13
Us having like a longer pile rug and there the vacuum started to
27:19
smell really bad like it was like breaking down because it
27:22
just couldn't handle the motor couldn't handle what I was
27:25
trying to get it to do, which was just vacuum the rug.
27:28
And so you really to take those things into consideration also
27:34
like you know don't have a really high long fiber rug if
27:40
you have motion furniture that is going to sit on top of it
27:44
because it can get caught and some of those mechanisms, OK.
27:48
I don't know. Why that makes me laugh so much,
27:51
but it just really does. Couldn't open up the.
27:53
Recliner. Yeah, you could.
27:55
Really. On the rug?
27:56
Yeah, you can. Break the motor or even will
27:59
since will will shed a little that can debris can get into the
28:06
motor and just really junk it up.
28:09
So a polyester like a performance polyester or
28:14
propylene rug is a great option for a dining room because of the
28:18
clean ability for just hose balls and.
28:21
Messes. Yeah, but see I have.
28:24
A Let me tell you, I am not afraid of wool, though, OK,
28:29
Because it does. Shed it does.
28:31
But it's, it's a natural resistant fabric of dirt and
28:36
debris and things like that. So I mean, I, I wouldn't shy
28:40
away from a wool rug personally. I have a wool.
28:43
Rug and it's not like shedding crazily all the time, you know,
28:50
just Tufts of wool everywhere. It's more like, yeah, you want
28:55
to vacuum it and you might get some debris when you vacuum it,
28:59
but or like with the carpet cleaner, if you clean it with
29:03
the carpet cleaner, you're going to get some debris.
29:05
But it's not like, you know, the rug is shedding all over the
29:09
house and it becomes a huge mess or anything like that.
29:14
But yeah, wool is great because it's I love a good.
29:17
Wool rug. It just it.
29:19
It keeps it stays clean, Yeah. And then just again, other than
29:26
the wool or jute or cotton or bamboo, synthetic fibers are can
29:30
also be really good for rugs like nylon, polyester,
29:34
propylene, acrylic and viscose. Yeah, so, well, viscose.
29:41
Too can look like a silk rug. Yeah, if you have a viscose rug,
29:45
and a lot of times they'll mix like this one in the front.
29:48
I think there's some viscose in that.
29:50
OK mixing it with a different fiber so it gives a really neat
29:55
Sheen to the rug. Will you hold that?
29:57
Up. Sure, let.
29:59
Me try to get this because I think this has a little bit of
30:07
viscose here yeah and you. Can kind of see, like the
30:11
outlines of the florals are viscose and so it's shiny.
30:15
Yeah, it's really. Pretty It's got a Sheen.
30:18
That stands out. That is pretty.
30:20
I'd put this in my. House.
30:21
Yeah, it's nice and light. Yeah, it's got.
30:23
Some color but not too much. Just going to throw that.
30:26
Down on the floor. And then I asked if you could
30:33
get an affordable, good quality rug.
30:35
Sure. Yeah.
30:36
And the buyer also agreed. She said machine made rugs are
30:40
produced with synthetic materials and are the most
30:43
affordable option because they're mass produced more
30:46
quickly. But they're of course can still
30:49
be great quality. And there's just such an array
30:54
of different types of fibers and construction types available you
30:58
can sift through, so there's really something of quality to
31:01
meet any budget. Absolutely.
31:03
So much more than what we used to have, yeah.
31:06
And. Sizes and shapes.
31:09
I mean, the rug industry is amazing right now.
31:13
Yeah, yeah. Like maybe you do.
31:15
Want a little bit of higher quality material, but you don't
31:19
want to spend a fortune, so maybe you opt for a smaller rug
31:23
and that can still definitely fit well within your room.
31:26
Yeah, and we'll show you how. Yeah.
31:30
And. You could even layer like.
31:32
If you want the smaller rug, but you need a larger rug, you could
31:35
layer the two like a large rug and a small.
31:39
Yeah, yeah. That's true.
31:40
To make it bigger, like maybe the top 1 is really high quality
31:44
and the lower one's machine made or something.
31:48
Or maybe the top 1's? Like a hand knot.
31:50
Yeah. And then you have it on top of a
31:51
machine made. Why not?
31:53
I mean, I've seen high, low. What you you can do that.
31:56
It looks great. That is so.
31:58
True, and that's a good way to extend your budget that way, but
32:02
it really does ground the space and make a huge difference in
32:04
the room. So I think it's definitely a
32:07
worth it place to yeah to spend money 'cause you'll you'll keep
32:11
it for a while if it, especially if it's of quality, it'll last a
32:14
lot longer and you can move it. Throughout your home too.
32:18
That's so true. Like.
32:19
Even if you rent, like maybe in a dining room, you have a rug
32:25
that when you move to your next house, you put it in the living
32:27
room or you know, it'll work in different rooms potentially.
32:30
So it could really have longevity there.
32:33
And then it has a story. So I guess on that topic,
32:36
because, you know, you might keep a rug for a long time and
32:41
it goes from room to room. Are washable rugs worth it?
32:45
Yeah, you know what I love? A washable rug in a dining room.
32:50
I love it in a kids room or kids playroom in a kitchen.
32:54
Like if you do a runner in front of the sink between, you know,
32:57
your sink in the island or stove, whichever and in an
33:01
entrance way. And now they're inexpensive.
33:05
So you could literally have a few of them that you change out
33:09
per season. Cool.
33:11
Yeah, they're not that expensive, especially the ones
33:13
on our website. Yeah, are not expensive at all.
33:16
Wow. Yeah, okay.
33:17
There's other higher price point washable rugs, but you know ours
33:22
are they don't have to be. No.
33:24
Well, do we have an example of one?
33:26
We do where? Is my.
33:28
I remember seeing one. And it was so soft.
33:32
I think it's over there. It's that the one closest to
33:35
you, Haley. Yeah.
33:38
And this is just triangles that we have.
33:40
And these colors are so great to work with, too.
33:43
That's on this particular rug, yeah, but from.
33:45
Afar, it just, it looks really like a nice pattern.
33:52
Yeah. And it's extremely soft when you
33:54
touch it. It is.
33:57
And the the back of this, Yeah, this is a great rug.
34:01
Yeah. What does the back?
34:02
Look like if it's washable the back it's kind.
34:05
Of like a rubbery back overly. It's not like coated in rubber,
34:10
it's you can still see the weave.
34:12
You can see the. Weave, but it definitely has
34:14
some grip to it. Yeah, yeah.
34:16
But this is. Great.
34:17
I mean, these are awesome for entrance ways.
34:20
Yep. Yeah, change.
34:21
Change with the season, right? Cool.
34:24
Yeah. And I guess also, aside from
34:29
having to throw it in the washing machine, spills will
34:32
actually beat up and can be wiped right off.
34:36
So that's kind of nice. I'm big on throwing.
34:38
Them on the driveway and just washing them, yeah, yeah, well,
34:41
let's look at. Some layouts just on the
34:45
driveway and wash. Just why not?
34:48
Hose it down, yeah. Yeah, well, I I want to hear
34:52
more about that little what you just shared.
34:57
But we should talk about. Yeah.
35:00
How do you place a rug in a living room, for example?
35:05
Like, what are things you should consider?
35:07
Where should you put it? If you have a sofa and a coffee
35:09
table, let's say chairs, you know I don't.
35:12
Have any issue with like the back legs of the chair being off
35:16
the rug? That doesn't bother me.
35:19
It is nice when you have, if you have the space to do an
35:23
oversized rug and then your sofa or sectional sits upon the rug
35:28
so it goes underneath your legs of the front of the sofa.
35:32
That looks really nice. I know you have this round rug
35:35
up here and some people are like, really?
35:38
Huh. I think it's fun.
35:40
Yeah, I think it is. Fun.
35:41
I think a round rug is. Great in a living room.
35:43
I also like it in a kids room. Yeah, yeah.
35:46
In. Circle time it's it's.
35:48
That curve Curvy, yeah. Adds to the curvy.
35:51
Aesthetic that's so in right now so I mean yeah, I guess you're
35:56
right. You definitely could have a big
36:00
8 by 10 rug that all of the furniture sits on top of.
36:05
Or even bigger. Yeah, or even bigger yeah, like
36:08
in. This space here there next to
36:12
the sectional, like all the way down, you see like a rectangle
36:16
that was I think like a sidebar or something.
36:20
But there's a set of stairs that go up right there.
36:22
So you're basically walking down a little bit of wood floor and
36:25
then a large area rug. And you could make that rug
36:29
smaller, but I liked that size in that space.
36:33
OK, so. These are diagrams from your
36:35
design. Yeah, that you've done in real
36:39
spaces. It looks like someone.
36:41
Colored them, they look really pretty.
36:44
I took your CAD drawings and I you made them pretty.
36:48
Yeah, they're very artistic. I love them.
36:51
They look at my God. Yeah.
36:53
But yeah, I think that the commonality, whether you have a
36:59
circular or a rectangular rug is that if you do have a smaller
37:06
rug, you know, it'll be fine to have a smaller area rug in a
37:14
smaller space because just the front legs of everything can
37:17
just be touching the rug, right, Essentially.
37:20
Or a lot like the main piece pieces like the chairs, let's
37:24
say. Yeah, I mean it's.
37:26
Nice to have the sofa on the rug, but if you, you know, if
37:30
you can't have a extra large rug and the sofa completely sit on
37:35
it, it's OK to have it halfway on.
37:38
I think that's fine. Just have the front legs on.
37:40
Yeah, yeah. Let's see what else.
37:43
What else is out there as far as did you watercolor these?
37:47
I did. Oh my goodness.
37:49
We need to frame them and put. Them up just like as diagrams
37:55
down the hall the biggest. Thing.
37:57
I think a lot of people in their living room just put the a small
38:02
rug under the coffee table, and rugs are really meant to bring
38:05
the room together. So the goal is to either have
38:08
all the main pieces of furniture squarely on top of the rug, or
38:12
at least the feet are touching the rug.
38:15
Not every piece of furniture in Yeah yeah on a yes.
38:20
Corner of the rug and. If you're watching, there's some
38:22
diagrams to help. If you don't have time now,
38:24
there'll be a supporting blog that you can reference, so not
38:29
a. Postage stamp, not a postage
38:32
table. Stamp under a coffee table.
38:34
Bring that room together exactly.
38:37
Yeah. So let's look at some examples
38:40
of how you would apply the same idea with dining room.
38:44
So whether it's a round rug or a square rug, I wanted to include
38:49
both shapes because if you have a round dining table, you could,
38:53
yeah, you know, do a round rug. Or you could do a could you do a
38:58
square rug if you have a round dining table?
39:00
Possibly. Yeah.
39:02
If it's all right. If it's.
39:03
Big enough and it depends on the size of your table to the rug,
39:06
right? One thing for dining that is key
39:10
is to make sure legs on the chairs or the bench are on the
39:16
rug even when you move them away from the table.
39:21
So when you're sitting at the table, you don't want the back
39:24
legs to be off of the rug. So you need to have a big enough
39:27
rug that everything's on the rug when you pull the chair away.
39:30
OK, Yeah. And that's pretty.
39:33
Pretty easy to follow, sure. So whether you have a dining
39:35
bench like in the example on the right or you have just all
39:40
chairs, you want to make sure that when it's pulled back, it's
39:44
still on the rug. So I think dining sounds like
39:47
it's a really good place for a bigger rug.
39:49
If you're going to invest like what room to invest in the
39:53
bigger rug, I think dining would be the answer.
39:57
And here it looks like on the right hand side, you don't have
40:03
the servers on the rug. So the in this.
40:06
Particular room, those are large cabinets.
40:11
And in between the cabinets is this beautiful piece of art that
40:15
we spec for that space. Nice.
40:17
Yeah. OK.
40:19
And so. Those can sit.
40:20
Off of the rug? I think so, but I've also seen.
40:23
You. Put part of the rug underneath
40:26
those cabinets if you need more walk room space or exactly
40:33
clearance. It depends on the room like.
40:35
In that situation you just spoke of, it moved you right into the
40:40
kitchen, so you needed that walk space.
40:43
You know, this could be an enclosed room, right?
40:45
So it just depends on your space.
40:47
Yeah. So you could.
40:48
Either have, you know, the rug touching every piece of
40:52
furniture in a dining room, theoretically, or, you know,
40:56
just be under the main dining piece.
40:58
Yeah, as long as when you pull the.
41:01
Chair away or the bench away, it's still on the rug.
41:03
That's all that matters. What about?
41:05
Bedrooms. I feel like bedrooms are
41:08
difficult because they're set up in so many different ways.
41:12
Yeah. So OK, I'm glad you drew them.
41:15
Or you put it this way, you could do a wall to wall size rug
41:21
and a bedroom if it works out that way, like the one on the
41:24
right there. Or you could do a smaller
41:27
version and just bring it up closer to the night stands.
41:31
Or if it's even bigger, you could have the front of the legs
41:35
of the night stand on the rug. Now, I tend to like it further
41:38
down, so kind of maybe halfway in in the example on the left,
41:43
like halfway down to and you know where the bed is, right?
41:47
And both of those are pretty. Like 8 by 11 potentially sized
41:51
rugs depending on the size. The one that's wall to wall
41:55
would be bigger, yeah. Yeah, a lot bigger than that.
41:59
What is crazy? I don't know if you have a slide
42:02
of This is when the rug goes the same direction as the bed, which
42:08
makes me crazy. OK, so you don't want.
42:11
The bed and the rug to be parallel, like just same
42:14
direction. Yeah, no.
42:16
Please don't do that. So put the rug horizontal.
42:19
In your bed vertical like AT? Exactly?
42:22
Yeah, OK. That's.
42:24
That's me. That's my.
42:25
Own personal thing, but yeah, well, I included more rug.
42:30
Examples for the bedroom, because it is just a difficult
42:37
space to figure out with all the furniture.
42:40
So let's go to the next slide because I think that is really
42:44
telling. Like in a kids bedroom, for
42:47
example. Like if you have two twins,
42:50
yeah. I would just put them like the
42:52
picture shows here. This was an interesting space
42:56
because it was like the entrance, like the bottom floor
42:59
entrance that was turned into a kids space, a bedroom and that
43:04
that long on the right that's actually a rug, an insurance rug
43:09
and that's a small wall that divides.
43:12
The kids bedroom. To the entrance.
43:14
So, yeah, so we're trying to define that space a little bit
43:18
more. So we did an oversized rug in
43:20
the kids area. Yeah, cool.
43:25
It's what we did there well. What about?
43:29
Yeah, an office, OK. Oh, I see what you're saying.
43:34
Yeah. So this one, we had a smaller
43:39
rug that we like the color in. And so we took just like a solid
43:44
rug and then layered this. I'm sorry, solid rug that was
43:50
larger that we then layered the smaller rug on top of and it
43:55
turned out really well. It added it added quite
43:58
dimension, a lot of dimension to that space so you can layer
44:01
rugs. Absolutely awesome.
44:04
And. In this instance, you just like
44:09
because there it looks like there's an office with a desk
44:12
area and a seating area and you would prioritize the rug under
44:16
the seating area. If there's both, I mean, you
44:19
could put it under. The desk.
44:21
But the way this room was laid out, there was other doors and
44:25
other hallways to the space, so it didn't make sense to put one
44:29
where that desk is, right? Right.
44:33
If that were an actual. Wall back there then.
44:34
Sure, right? You could put a rug under a
44:37
desk. If you want, absolutely, yeah.
44:39
Yeah, yeah. So production's telling me you
44:43
have a surprise for me? Oh yeah, so.
44:46
Since we're talking about rugs, a friend of mine gave me these
44:50
and I just think they are the cutest things and this is really
44:55
a surprise. What?
44:56
Oh my gosh, they're cute. Cup holders, well, they're OK,
45:01
so they come in different. Patterns.
45:03
Look at this look. How cute can you see that?
45:06
Nice. Persian rugs, Yeah, with the
45:09
tassels. So yeah, Anyway, they're little.
45:12
Coasters so you and your, you know, all of your different cute
45:18
little cups there that you use needs its own little cute
45:22
coaster, you know, little rug or you can use it as a mouse pad.
45:27
So that's so true. Anyway, so you can pick.
45:31
One and then I'll put one on my side too, aren't they?
45:35
Cute. It's kind.
45:37
Of like I want to shrink myself and walk across one of these
45:39
rugs. That is what it looks like.
45:43
I just layered the rug under my teacup plate and I just layered
45:50
mine. Look how.
45:51
Sweet. Well, I you know I never want to
45:54
stain. Nice surfaces, but so when you
45:57
are layering rugs though, like you wanted, how do you do that?
46:03
Like when you're choosing patterns, is there any rule that
46:07
you should be? I mean you can mix patterns.
46:11
But I typically like to do maybe a solid, you know, as the
46:15
foundation, the larger rug and then maybe the pattern on the
46:18
top. That's just me though.
46:19
You could do vice versa. Also, if you have like a jute, a
46:25
natural fiber rug, like a seagrass or something like that,
46:30
have a jute. Oh yeah, this.
46:32
One here this is a jute. This has a nice little.
46:36
Texture now this. Has quite a bit of pattern for
46:38
this jute. I love this rug.
46:41
But anyway, maybe a solid jute and then you could put say a
46:47
focal hide over top of that and it just creates dimension and it
46:51
creates an interest in the room. And do you always want to put
46:54
the? Rug that's on top layered at an
46:57
angle or can you do square? I mean, you could you could
47:02
square. It all up I, I tend to like a
47:04
little bit of flare, a little angle on it.
47:07
So I typically put it at an angle.
47:10
I feel like that is a little bit.
47:12
More advanced, but it's really cool to know that you can do
47:16
that. Especially I really like the
47:17
idea of saving money by choosing like maybe a more inexpensive
47:22
larger rug and then the really nice rug on top is nicer.
47:28
Well, let's say a smaller I'll. Give an example of just for
47:32
utilitarian purposes. So say you have a jute or
47:36
seagrass rug and you spill something all over it and you
47:38
can't clean it, but you're like, I love that rug.
47:41
I don't want to get rid of it. You can layer another smaller
47:44
rug over top of it. So just cover up the mess.
47:47
That is such a good idea. Hopefully it's.
47:49
More in the center, but. I love that just.
47:54
A thought that is so. Crafty Every.
47:56
Situation is different, yeah. Yeah.
47:59
So you mentioned a couple times that you hose off your rug in
48:06
your driveway, and I just want to know like, is that how you're
48:10
supposed to clean a rug or how that's how I clean it?
48:14
You're not going. To send it off to be cleaned.
48:17
Somebody else can do that, but wow.
48:19
I called to get a price on cleaning this Ushak rug that I
48:23
had and no way. So I just took it out to my
48:26
driveway and put some, I think it was like Ecos or you know,
48:32
some sort of cleaner, like fabric cleaner, laundry
48:37
detergent, sorry, a real mild 1. And I put it on there.
48:41
I scrubbed it down. I used to broom, I hosed it, got
48:45
all the soap out and I didn't have anything to like scrape all
48:49
the excess water and everything off.
48:51
So you guys are going to think I'm nuts.
48:53
I used a shovel because it had a, you know, a hard edge on it.
48:57
And so I literally scraped it. I asked my neighbors, I was
49:00
like, did you ever see me doing that?
49:02
And they're, they said they did, so funny.
49:06
I'm sorry. Neighbors, thank you for putting
49:09
up with me. Do you have any?
49:11
Photos of you doing that? I don't think so.
49:14
Maybe Google Earth? Has some I you know I don't oh,
49:18
Oh my gosh it. Looks like our producer.
49:23
I don't think that's. Me, it's not a.
49:26
Shovel. Like that?
49:28
This is like a snow shovel. Where did you get that photo?
49:37
Oh, goodness gracious. That is hell yeah, but it was.
49:41
Kind of like that. Just a different type of shovel.
49:43
Yeah, Yeah. OK, I had.
49:46
Eaten a lot of spinach, so I was.
49:48
You know, super muscular there, right?
49:50
Yeah, Well, I. Mean I'm just picturing you and
49:52
I think like hard labor, like I don't think it was very
49:57
difficult. As far as like, yeah, sure.
50:00
It was like a workout is like that.
50:02
That's basically what it is. Just, you know.
50:06
A shovel for. Snow.
50:08
Yeah. OK, a snow shovel.
50:10
Which makes it worse. Cannot shovel.
50:13
Yeah, you're not like. Scoop.
50:15
Well, you know how snow shovel they're usually?
50:17
Pretty wide and they have that sharp edge.
50:19
It's not sharp. It's I guess sort of sharp.
50:21
But yeah, you know, it just pushed and scraped the water out
50:25
and it worked and then I just laid it.
50:28
A lot of people like to put it on a trampoline.
50:29
If I have a trampoline, because of the airflow, me, I think I
50:33
just put some tables out there and laid it on it and it dried.
50:37
It took about a week. Well, you know, I feel like
50:39
that's how people. Traditionally, yeah.
50:42
Clean rocks and. You know the.
50:45
Sun is disinfecting. It's a great way to dry things.
50:48
So hey, you know, I probably wouldn't do that with like a
50:51
really high end. I mean when you're talking
50:55
about. Sotheby's or Christie's auction
50:57
House of $33 million? Maybe you might be calling the?
51:01
Professionals on that, Yeah. You pay the price, yeah, for the
51:04
rug. Cleaning.
51:06
But yeah, I didn't lose any color out of the rug, I mean.
51:09
It was old. It's an old rug.
51:11
I found it at like a junk store and I was like, I am buying that
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rug, but it was, it had a smell to it.
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So I'm like I am washing those rugs.
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So I did and it was fine. It's beautiful now.
51:22
Yeah, yeah. Wow.
51:26
Well, yeah, when I heard that you were, when you were cleaning
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your driveway, cleaning your rug in your driveway with a hose, I
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just needed to get a visual of that.
51:43
And so we prompted AI because it's gotten pretty advanced.
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And at first it gave just like a jolly lady.
51:52
Like did you have that picture? Water off her rug.
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No, I didn't include I I mean, somewhere, maybe we'll include
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it later. But then I I prompted it and I
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said more hard labor. Look, so to them, that's what,
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that's what they called it, hard labor.
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I love it. Yeah, it's great.
52:19
Oh my goodness. Just the facial expression.
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Is I I think my hair was actually.
52:25
Pulled back like that, I think it was hot out.
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Yeah, definitely. A lot of yeah, yeah, you know.
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There's many ways it sounds like to maintain and clean.
52:39
There's also spot cleaning as an option.
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You can do that. But yeah, for those larger.
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Rugs I've taken, like I mentioned, just like a, you
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know, a carpet cleaner that looks like a vacuum and cleaned
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it that way. I also, yeah, have hosed off a
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rug because of, you know, pet issues potentially.
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I think the best thing to do. Like if you had to do.
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Like if if you have a. You know, a pet goes on your
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rug, you should really just try to get it up as quick as
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possible and just blot it with a paper towel.
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And then a little bit of, you know, very, you know, dish soap
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or just some sort of not a harsh chemical on it.
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Yeah. And just pad it.
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You don't want to swirl. You don't want to like move that
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around. Yeah.
53:36
You know, if you're just spot cleaning it because then you'll
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see those patterns. Eventually it'll pop back up but
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still just spot clean and tap. Yeah, the situation I was in.
53:45
It was just it needed a hose. You needed a hose, but, and, so
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and. Then I sucked the.
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Water out with the Bissell, you know, carpet cleaner, so that
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that works. Sometimes you just got to do
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what you got to do. And it wasn't like the highest
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end rug ever. But yeah, on that note, it's
54:03
been really interesting to talk about rugs and how to to shop
54:11
for them and where to put them in your house and what to do if
54:14
they get messy and how to layer them.
54:18
So it's been, well, it's been entertaining, yeah.
54:21
Hopefully we've given some good information that people can use
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how to. Simulate your weekend chores
54:29
using AI. How to AI clean your rugs.
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54:40
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