I like walking barefoot around the house, even while cooking in our small kitchen.  It used to be a problem because I don’t like walking on cold floors, and our house used to have tile floors. The tiles were beautiful and of very good quality, were easy to clean and water-proof, which was practical especially for the kitchen, but cold to bare feet.

When I saw a sample of laminated bamboo parquet flooring material at a trade show, I knew I had found the right flooring material, not just for our kitchen but also for the rest of the house. Its durability and beautiful warm glow, combined with the water proofing provided by the laminate made it ideal even for the kitchen area.

We still have our area rugs but they are there primarily because they look good against the flooring, and not because my feet need oases of warmth in an expanse of cold tile.

Gray is often viewed as a drab color.  By itself, it seems dusty, dirty, and drab.  But what most people don’t realize is that it’s a great color that can be used to control other colors, especially the bright ones.  Gray area rugs are a great way to decorate your floor and incorporate in bright colors without actually making your floor pop out and give people vertigo.  Like black, you can pair up almost any other color with it, although do be careful to not pair up any muddy colors with gray or else your room really will look dirty.  It’s best to pair up bright, popping colors with your grays.

If you’re having a hard time trying to match your gray rug with the right amount of another color, think of it as a cloud with silver lining, only instead of the gray being the silver lining, it’s the cloud, and you’re looking for colorful lining to go with it. 

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When it comes to any kind of aesthetic look, females are always known to be a tad pickier than men.  And even though children are known to change their minds a lot, there is no doubt that children are even picker when it comes to knowing what they want.  That being said, when it comes to buy a rug for daughters, there are definitely some easier tasks out there…unless you do it the right way.

Start out with asking what are some things your daughter likes.  Simple things, such as flowers or polka dots.  What colors does she like? Solid colors, such as pink, purple, green, white, or an array of colors, like rainbow, pastels, neons? It can also be a bonding moment, to pick out rugs with your child.  Children LOVE to touch things, and rug shopping is great way for them to not only touch, but feel the rug that they want in their room.

Whatever you get, in the end, could become a childhood heirloom that your daughter grows up with.  Even if you’re buying a new rug for a teenage daughter going off to college, a rug is something that adds a warm and comfortable touch to the room that can remind any little princess of home.

If you’re the type of person who loves all colors and all things rainbows, you must know that decorating your home may not be the easiest to do if you’re looking to incorporate every color of the rainbow spectrum into a room.  But here is a cool idea you might want to consider: pixelated rugs.

One company called Tufted creates high quality rugs that are handmade and made of many fabrics that are all different colors.  Their rugs kind of resemble fishscales, and brings to memory the Rainbow Fish.  Some rugs have bigger “scales” than others, but the color changes are definitely something interesting for your floor.

Anthropologie also has it’s own version of the pixelated rug, which is just a rug that is literally made out of many “pixels” of fabrics that are all different colors, more random and more chaotic than that of Tufted’s.

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