A New Obsession

Up until the day that I started working at Rugs to My Door, I never paid much attention to the floor. There was just too much to see at eye level. Being a habitual people watcher, my wandering eyes scanned for pretty faces, amusing outfits, outlandish personalities, you get the idea. The only time my gaze lingered towards the floor was if I were checking out the shoes a person had the guts to wear with the outfit that they were wearing.

Two years in an industry that revolves around area rugs will definitely altar your habitual routines. I never realized how big of a deal area rugs are! We have customers calling from all over the world. The other day I received an email from Sydney, Australia! I get calls from customers looking for the perfect colors. It has to be crimson red, not cranberry red. Specific patterns, shapes, and sizes because they have oblong tables in a triangular room. You name it, I have heard it.

These years of helping customers find their perfect rug, I have seen A LOT of area rugs. I’ll be honest, some of the rugs I find are just not my type. I've seen everything from plain rugs to rugs with some really awesome patterns as well. I've seen traditional rugs and floral rugs but to tell the truth I’m more of a contemporary girl myself. One of these days I am going to get my hands on a rug from Oriental Weaver’s Lava Collection.

Staring at these rugs must have scrambled something in my brain. Now if I go out to the store, a restaurant, a person’s home, I am still looking at pretty faces, amusing outfits, and outlandish personalities. However, these days my gaze tends to wander to the floor as well. I’m looking at area rugs from a whole new perspective. I catch myself wondering if we sell that collection on our website. I have looked at the quality of some rugs and thought to myself “boy they could really go with a nice wool fiber instead of this nylon mess.” Believe it or not, I have gone as far as to lift up a rug, just to see who makes the thing! It has become a new obsession of mine to pick out area rugs for rooms of any building I happen to be in. The other day at my Grandma’s I mentally placed area rugs I liked in her kitchen, dining room and living room!

If you have never really thought about area rugs take a minute to do just that. Look at your floors. Sure you have perfectly good carpet, or nice hard wood floors. But imagine adding a bit of color, a dash of style, to an otherwise ordinary space. Trust me when I say the possibilities are endless.