Round Rugs

Choosing new rugs for your home can be intimidating at first, and the tendancy is to choose something that is a good balance of safe but fashionable. This runs contrary to what the best interior designers do with their spaces, which is to turn them into a stimulating environment with the use of unique colors and shapes.

This is where round rugs come into the picture. Now we do offer thousands of round rugs for you to choose from. The challenge in some cases is that the image will be rectangular, but the item is in fact offered in a round shape. In other cases the images are actually round so you can get a very good feeling for how the pattern translates into the unique shape.

The rug featured above is from our Nina Upson Home Collection. It is made of 100% Hand Tufted Wool and retails for only $449 for the 5.3x5.3 Round size.

Round rugs are offered in styles other than traditional, however. For instance, we also offer some really great casual florals in round shapes. Take a look at this pattern from our Kathy Ireland Home Collection. It is made of 100% Polypropylene so cleaning and caring for it is incredibly easy. Plus the 7.7x7.7 Round retails for only $689. Kathy Ireland Rugs have long been one of our best selling Collections. They are made to stand up to a lot of traffic, are well priced and come in a really wide range of styles and colors. Kathy Ireland Rugs are now offered in round sizes that can add both visual intrigue to a space and in some cases fit an area where a rectangular rug just would not look right. Round rugs are not only offered in traditional and casual florals however, there are an ever increasing range of styles that translate really well into a round shape.

Take for instance this incredibly cool child's room pattern made of 100% nylon. It is a great way to educate a loved little one about numbers, the alphabet, and the concept of a compass all at the same time. This is an ideal example of how round rugs can be a really exciting way to enhance a space whether it is being used for formal purposes or a child's play area. Our Compass Rug is a really fun thing that I am actually going to order for my niece and nephew. I wish that I had a really neat rug like this one when I was a kid. As I recall however, my bedroom had wall to wall carpet-and not just any kind of carpet but the sort of sculptured business that looked like Edward Scissorhands had been let loose and hacked the heck out of it. Of course trends change, and as a kid I used the sculptured carpet grooves as tracks to run my matchbox cars along. But it would have been that much more fun to have a rug such as this one to play with, and much more educational as well. Round rugs are just that sort of creation. They tend to come in a host of genre's not unlike their rectangular companions.

Another great example of a round pattern that does wonders to a home's decor is the Pop Circles pattern from our Andy Warhol Home Collection. Take a look at how cool this room looks with a round rug as a focal point. Not only does the color stand out but the shape itself makes the room look really incredible.

So when you are considering a new rug for your home, take into account all the really obvious things such as color and style and fiber based on where the rug is going (such as polypropylene is great for heavy traffic mud rooms and that sort of thing whereas wool is super soft and great for living rooms or master bedrooms). But also remember that round rugs can add visual interest where there was otherwise a bunch of rectangles going on. Walls are rectangular, furniture pushed up against the walls, rectangular picture frames on the wall. I think you get the idea. So try to think round when you can. I pushed myself outside my own comfort zone by putting a round rug in my foyer from the Generations Collection of Sphinx by Oriental Weavers. It actually looks really great.

Enough about all this. I have to get myself put together so I can enjoy this great summer day. We don't get too many of these in the Detroit area. I hope you have a great weekend and thanks again for reading :)

Wes.