Buying your first home? Using rugs in home decorating will add warmth and interest to your spaces. Oriental rugs in particular are a great way to inject colour and pattern in an attractive and functional way. Now that you’ve got the freedom to decorate your own home you make all the choices, from the light fixtures on the ceiling down to the oriental rugs beneath your feet. You can now find beautiful new and second hand oriental rugs online at affordable prices.
Laying oriental rugs will give a both and modern and vintage edge to your style. It’s nice to move away from the wall to wall carpeting in the houses of our childhood. Oriental or Afghan rugs provide a fashionable alternative to shag pile carpets which were popular in the 70s. They did of course come before complete carpeting so in a way using a rug in your living room is actually a return to the old. Wall to wall or fitted carpets were not common in ordinary English homes until the 1960s.
The term ‘oriental’ refers to any carpets made in Asia, which, as some may think, is not limited to China or simply countries in far East Asia but in fact covers the regions stretching from Turkey and Armenia all the way across the Middle East and India right the way to China. The origin of the oriental rugs we know today reaches back to before the birth of Christ. A rug known as the “Pazyryk Carpet”, found in Siberia but of Armenian make, is thought to have been produced in the 5th or 4th century BC.
In their earliest conception oriental rugs not just on the floor but used them as throws over chairs, sofas, as wall hanging to keep warmth in and even put them over tables. Obviously in your new home you’re free to put your new rugs anywhere you like but a word of advice is that your guests might find it a little odd if you did put oriental rugs across your dining room table. Search around online for gorgeous colours and patterns in authentic rugs from the Orient and have fun decorating your very own house.
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