Decorative Guide

How to Buy an Area Rug

September 03, 2012 2 min read

Decide on which style suits your tastes before you go shopping for your new rug.[/caption] Going into a huge rug store like Rug & Home can be daunting. Thousands of area rugs — nearly every size, style, and color — hang from humungous racks. Without proper guidance, the rug-buying neophyte ma...

Leather vs. Cloth: What’s the Deal?

August 27, 2012 2 min read

There are a number of factors you need to consider before purchasing upholstered furniture. While your budget may drive many of your decisions, other aspects of the process should also take precedence. Certainly, the quality of the frame is an important factor to consider, and we’ll go into that ...

How to Spiff Up Your Kid’s Dorm Room

August 22, 2012 2 min read

Indulge your college student with a rug and down pillows in colorful and cheery colors. After spending a fortune on tuition, books, and clothes, you may not feel inclined to indulge your college student with lavish dorm furnishings. At the same time, the drab confines of a college dorm can have a...

The Best Size for Your Dining Room Rug

July 30, 2012 2 min read

Leave room to pull out the chairs when you lay a rug under your dining table.[/caption] What’s the rule for the size of a new rug? Too large and it may it seem as if you’re trying to hide the floor. Too small and it may seem as if you’re trying to hide a stain. Choosing an appropriate rug size is...

The Benefits of Hand-Knotted Rugs

July 23, 2012 3 min read

Hand-knotted rugs are truly works of art. Each is as unique as a Rembrandt, a one-of-a-kind masterpiece made of love, sweat, and fabric. These wool or silk rugs are creations you can be proud to add to your estate and pass down to the next generation as family heirlooms. Some people insist that a...

Safe Rugs for Your New Baby’s Room

July 10, 2012 2 min read

Keep your baby safe with an all-natural wool/sisal rug[/caption] You’re getting ready to bring a new baby home, and naturally, you want everything to be just right. As a vigilant parent, you’ve bought the new and improved car seat. You’ve decided to use cotton diapers to keep her bottom clean whi...

Truly One-of-a-Kind Gifts for the More Discerning Ladies on Your List

December 09, 2011 3 min read

If you struggle to come up with a new gift idea for your girlfriend, wife, best lady friend, sister, mother, mother-in-law, grandmother, aunt, or any other female in your life, then this blog’s for you! Our designers have picked out some of their favorite items, to give and to receive. These gi...

A Braided Rug Renaissance

March 06, 2011 3 min read

There’s no doubt about it: braided rugs are back! Rarely a day goes by without our samples being excitedly thumbed through. Perhaps it’s because, as Norma and Elizabeth Sturges—authors of The Braided Rug Book—put it, braided rugs represent “hearth, home, comfort, family, and love.” Isn’t it amazi...

Three Tricks of the Trade

June 04, 2010 2 min read

Handmade Rug Edition Not to toot our own horns too loudly, but the entire R&H team knows a great deal about rugs. After all, owners Rakesh and Dolly Agarwal have been in the rug business for over 25 years, and they share their passion and knowledge with all team members. That knowledge includ...

Know Your Rug Style: Traditional, Contemporary, or Transitional

May 07, 2010 2 min read

When you first walk into one of our stores and share that you’re on the hunt for a new rug, a design associate is likely to ask, “What style are you looking for?” and then throw out these three overarching possibilities: traditional, contemporary, or transitional. While “traditional” and “contemp...

Secrets to Becoming a Master Measurer

April 02, 2010 3 min read

Secrets to Becoming a Master Measurer We’ve all purchased articles of clothing without trying them on. Sometimes we get lucky and they’re just right. But most of the time, they don’t look so great. Since you can’t exactly try a rug on for size, measuring your space before coming into the store o...

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