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Shaggy Rugs: A Practical Guide to Living With Deep Pile

A shaggy rug is wonderful in the right room and a quiet mistake in the wrong one. Here is where deep pile belongs, where it does not, and what living with one really involves.

Small Spaces: Choosing a Rug for Flats and Box Rooms

The instinct in a small room is to buy a small rug. It is the wrong instinct — an undersized rug fragments the floor and makes the space read as smaller still. Here is what to do instead.

Rugs for Rented Homes: How to Transform a Space You Don't Own

When you cannot paint, drill or change the flooring, a rug is the single biggest change you can make to a rented home — and the only one you take with you when you leave.

Conservatory and Garden Room Rugs: Sunlight, Damp and Temperature

A conservatory puts a rug through fierce sunlight, condensation and wide temperature swings — conditions no other room in the house comes close to. Here is what survives it, and what quietly falls ...

Nursery and Children's Room Rugs: A Practical Guide

A nursery rug has to be safe, genuinely cleanable and comfortable enough for hours of floor play — and it should still look right when the child is eight. Here is how to choose one that manages all...

Home Office Rugs: Comfort, Acoustics and Chair Wheels

The home office is the room most people furnished in a hurry and never finished. A rug quietens it, warms it and defines it — provided you get the pile, the size and the chair right.

Kitchen Rugs: What Actually Works

The kitchen is the hardest room in the house for a rug — grease, spills, standing water and constant traffic. Here is what survives it, what fails quickly, and where to put it.

Buying a Rug Online: How to Get It Right First Time

Buying a rug you have never stood on sounds risky, but almost every disappointment comes down to three avoidable errors: wrong size, misjudged colour, and reading the photograph instead of the spec...

Round Rugs: Where They Work and How to Size Them

A round rug is not simply a rectangle with the corners removed. It solves particular problems in particular rooms — and creates new ones if you size it badly. Here is where it earns its place.

Hand-Knotted, Hand-Tufted or Machine-Woven: How Rugs Are Made

Two rugs can share a pattern, a palette and a pile height, yet differ enormously in price. The difference is rarely the design — it is the construction, and you can read it from the back.