In the western world for the past 50 years, the fashion has been, by and large, for wall to wall carpeting. This fashion began with the wealthy and as we collectively got richer, we followed suit. All my life I have lived in homes with wall to wall carpeting however I have always loved having rugs in my home. Rugs have grown in popularity as the fashion for wall to wall carpeting has come under attack with the growing trend of stripped wood floors or laminate flooring - a rug adds warmth to both the room and the feet. When I was a child my parents didn't have rugs but this changed when I hit my teens and a shaggy pile fake sheepskin rug ...  Read the complete review

Rather than talk about the history of the rug, I would like to review a rug that I purchased within the last six months. When I first moved into my house, I was determined to carpet the house throughout, as that is what Im used to, but I was advised not to because having alittle baby at the time, it would be easier to keep the flooring clean if I had laminated flooring downstairs but have carpet upstairs so it would give comfort and make it homely. Thank goodness I took that advise, because I was not prepared for the amount of poo, pee, puke and general food mess I would experience, more so downstairs, when my son arrived ( then later his sister ). But to ...  Read the complete review

I am not quite sure how one is supposed to review ''rugs in general'', but let's try. How about, rugs are great? When I arrived in the UK for the first time (back in the early 1990s) from what was then freshly-post-communist Poland I was surprised by several aspects of day-to-day life in this country, some delightful (you don't have to carry any documents on you even when driving a car) and some, let's say, less so. Domestic routines were often among those, chief of them the separate hot and cold water taps. What appeared to be an almost obsessive love affair with wall to wall carpeting was another. Not only almost all rooms everywhere ...  Read the complete review

Wall-to-wall carpeting is one of the best luxuries enjoyed by those of us fortunate enough to be living in this age. That is, those of us with the means to acquire it and to maintain it. Alright, so I'm not the world's best housekeeper. But can you imagine the amount of fur and debris generated everyday by two dogs, six cats, two rats and a moulty mammal with black fur two feet long? If you haven't guessed, a lot of fur and stuff gets left on the floor. Fortunately for me, I hadn't gotten around to carpeting the downstairs, so it's all wood, lino and other non-carpety stuff. Unfortunately, it's not as warm as carpeting. ...  Read the complete review