Add warmth underfoot this winter with a good area rug

It’s getting positively chilly and we can’t have been the only ones to notice our feet feeling like iceblocks when we wander about at home.
With the inevitable onslaught of winter determined to deep freeze our feet, there’s an obvious solution to warming your home without blasting on the central heating – and one that will [...]

How auctioneers can only “guess-timate” the true price of rugs

I’d always thought that auctioneers had an easy time of it, but apparently not. You’d not only assume it was a fun, stress-free job, but that it must be easy for them to judge estimates for the selling price of lots.
According to auctioneer Stephen Drake estimating the worth or rugs is the hardest, “a complete [...]

Jonathan Adler: Rug maker extraordinaire

Quite simply we’re smitten.
Cutting edge design? Check. Vibrant colour schemes? Check. Aesthetically and ethically pleasing products? Check.
Jonathan Adler’s mantra is to treat your feet, and we couldn’t agree more. As do we agree with his sentiments that minimalism is a bummer (true say), and that tassels are the earrings of the home (aw!).
Well, they are [...]

Top rug maker “hooks” first prize in show

An American lady who’s been hooking home-made rugs since childhood won first place at a state wide craft fair after entering a stunning five and a half foot arabesque octagonal hooked rug for the show.
Sounds like due credit when you learn that the rug is the product of having worked for at least an hour [...]

Power to the people in all-out doormat wars!

Housing chiefs in Wolverhampton have clamped down on – wait for it – doormats!
Those unruly beasts that are seen tearing across the city have become just too much trouble it seems for the health and safety fun-sucker patrol. Honestly, you’d think they’d have better things to enforce, but apparently not.
Instead they’ve waged war with a [...]

Protect sealife with a Float-Rope doormat

Here’s a feel-good company who really make a difference to the environment and raise awareness for a great cause.
Down East Doormats produced by the Maine Float-Rope Company not only save whales and marine life, provide financial assistance to lobstermen, but protect the environment too.

Float-rope was traditionally used by lobstermen to tether lobster traps together, but [...]

Dare your doorstep to say more

Not so long ago the average doorstep was bland, without personality and purely functional. But, understandably, we’ve become pretty bored of that.
These days there’s all kinds of innovative designs and statements emblazoned under the average household door, and one thing’s for sure people like to be noticed. We like to be different, to be stylish [...]

Vinyl was made to be Recycled

That’s the message we’ve received loud and clear after finding out about a vinyl flooring takeback scheme called Recofloor that’s been launched in the UK.
It makes sense really; we recycle virtually everything we can but when it come to refurbishing our homes there’s masses of unwanted materials that we inevitably have to find useful ways [...]

Donated equipment and flooring revamps Chicago fitness centre

We love a “good news” story around here – they’re a rarity these days, and this is certainly a nice one.
A couple of companies in Chicago have been cherry-picking schools to donate their surplus stock to. So good so far, but the prime company concerned supplies gym equipment and the other provides rubber flooring.
They hatched [...]

Forget traditional flooring, whack on some wallpaper!

We know – sounds silly, doesn’t it? But honestly, we’re not having a giggle at your expense, using wallpaper for other surfaces than your walls (i.e. as an alternative to traditional flooring methods) is apparently the next big thing in interior design.
The gurus of style have decreed that this is the way forward for making [...]