SHOPPING for home essentials are assumed to be a jiffy with today’s explosion of home stores and their forays into online sales, but problems still exist whether you’re an online buyer or a brick-and-mortar shopper.
For example, everyone needs an area rug to define space and absorb noise, aside from other aesthetic and practical reasons. But what’s the best way to nab a carpet? Is it through the online store or actual shop, or have we assumed to have pushed the envelope?
The biggest obstacle to picking the right area rug is not knowing how it’s actually going to look—and sound—after you’ve laid it on a floor. For this problem, an incredible imagination will help. Lacking that, a friend who is a master at Photoshop can retouch your condo unit’s photo to make it appear as if it a rug has been placed on the floor. But what if you don’t have both?
The best way to surmount the obstacle is to have an area rug demonstration in your own home, and you can then judge for yourself if the design fits the condo. If you fall in love with a rug, the decision should come naturally. Pick the rug, pay for it, and live with it. That is, until you feel compelled to get another rug and try the very latest of the season. Rugs can be fashionable, too.
For these kinds of timely transactions, only one local supplier has bested others in the benefits department by providing the latest designs as they invade the market. Decoliving Manila (www.decolivingmanila.com) is the only service provider that can make house calls and deliver internationally sourced rugs on the spot. No hassles, no waiting in line for the cash register, no trudging with the heavy merchandise to the parking lot after the purchase.
Instead, when a rug has been chosen by you, it is already there—at home. All is done in a snap. Sold lot, stock and barrel, and most of all, business is convenient, practical, and on the spot.
WHAT MAKES THE RIGHT AREA RUG? ‘FENG SHUI’
Aside from the most excellent distribution channel stated above, another trait to look for in a rug source as choice du jour would be its ability to deliver on the right area rugs. For this you shouldn’t stop at anything less than awesome. Therefore the smart, affluent buyer must consider not merely design, quality and other benchmarks that make an awesome area rug, but also its affinity to feng shui.
For this matter, it is considered good luck to have paper bills, coins and gemstones seemingly scattered on the floor as these are auspicious signs that fortune will always be in your favor. But short of throwing your family jewels and your whole net worth on the surface, why not increase your receivables by choosing an area rug with the same feng shui power?
In answer to this, Decoliving delivers to your home a wide selection of rugs that strongly follow the rules of feng shui. These are apparent in rugs with circular, rectangular and crystal-shape motifs, signifying coin, paper money and jewel, respectively.
THE EFFICIENCY OF CARPETS
One of the main uses of an area rug is to consolidate furniture and accent pieces, and to define and separate a particular area of a home from another. Slowly, Filipino homes are shifting to consolidate more spacious designs by removing extra walls. This holds true from the big house to the condominium unit. To define space while maintaining the openness of the home, area rugs are perfect to achieve area management without sacrificing room.
Also an area rug can change the total look and mood of an area. Selecting a classic design from Decoliving will achieve a subtle feel that can blend disparate styles of furniture. However, one can also opt for more playful rug designs with lively colors. The choice of rug, whether conventional or revolutionary, will have an effect on the same room by anchoring it to a different mood or character based on the rug design. That said, buying a carpet is a quick fix if you would like to change your area’s ambiance without having to replace everything in it.
Meanwhile, adding accent fabrics to the home is not only visually appealing but also helps in the home’s acoustics. A lot of hard interiors will cause sound waves to bounce back and forth causing unwanted noise, especially when welcoming guests to the home. Area rugs and carpets are the only viable acoustic shock absorbers for the hardest part of the abode, the flooring.
Finally, contrary to common belief, area rugs do not cause dust in a particular area. It actually helps gather dust rather than let it circulate around the room. While it is true that vacuuming a rug will gather dust, this is not because of the fibers of the rug but because the carpet has gathered motes carried by air and confined it within the fibers. This solution makes the room easier to clean. Just vacuum the rug. Imagine, if one didn’t have a rug, then all that dust would just be wandering around the house.
***To request a free, no-hassle demo, e-mail decolivingmanila@gmail.com.