Time goes by, and here we are.
Winter is gone and Spring is in the air. This is the perfect time to clean out your closets and start planning for a fresh new home décor look. Begin with a new storage shelf or entry bench with handy baskets for shoes and purses.
This Spring, natural is the latest trend. Lets talk about rugs. Rugs that utilize natural, eco-friendly materials, such as jute, bamboo, or natural grasses create a warm floor covering with amazing textures and colors.
As the sun begins to warm the earth, walk outside and look around at your outdoor home. Add a fresh new bird feeder, weathervane or garden bench to liven up your garden home décor.
Good rugs lie flat on their backs, without wrinkles or ripples along their edges. Rugs with wrinkles, curled edges and so on, besides disturbing the eye, wear prematurely. Still, don’t ask for perfection, especially from tribal rugs made under difficult conditions.
Some rugs are out-of-shape. They came off the loom wider on one end than the other, or with bowing edges or an hour glass figure. All else being equal, a reasonably regular, geometrically correct shape is preferable to a visibly distorted one.
Some folks love rugs that have faded into a low key, innocuous absence of color, but, again, they should not be surprised when their beloved rug is spurned by others. Good rugs have colors that resist fading in normal light and bleeding when exposed to water.
Rugs in good condition are prized above those in bad condition. Moth damage, holes, rips, spots and stains and missing ends and edges are tolerable to most people only when rugs are really old.
Some wool is better than other wool. Good wool has a noticeable glow. It feels fleecy, perhaps a little oily, soft. It absorbs dye well and it takes heavy use. Inferior wool is full of kemp and hair and is scratchy, dry, lusterless and incapable of properly absorbing dye. Obviously, good wool is preferable to bad wool.
