Apartment Therapy: rugs & carpets

Barber Osgerby for The Rug Company: Not Just for Kids

For their first collection of rugs for children, The Rug Company went to Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby of British design duo Barber Osgerby. The designers — who already have a wonderfully col...

Rugs with Gray & Brown Swirl Pattern?
Good Questions

Q: I've been looking for a rug with gray and brown swirls. Does anyone know where I could get a rug like this? I was looking for decorating ideas from a real estate website and came across this rug i...

Grain Sack Stair Runner

We love the rustic vintage appeal of using grain sacks in home decor. We're not sure about the slip factor, but with proper underlayment, we're ready to hop onboard with this stair runner made from ...

Trompe L'oeil for the Home
Roundup

Trompe l'oeil is a french phrase for "trick of the eye." In design terms it means using extremely realistic imagery to create an optical illusion that make the artwork appear 3-D. This is most often...

Purple Accents & Accessories for the Home
Roundup

We're at the end of our colorful Roundups and it’s time for purple. What can decorating with purple do for you? Think regal, dramatic. Purple is great for formal entertaining, like a dining room, ...

Victorian Trading Co.

Even though my own style is a mix of modern and traditional, I still enjoy and appreciate the more old fashioned styles. The Victorian Trading Co. has me imagining life in a Charles Dickens novel....

Options for 100% Silk Tufted Rugs?
Good Questions

Q: I have fallen in love with the touch, the feel of Ligne Roset's Silk Plush rug — I'm just not in love with the $960/sq meter cost. The rug is machine-tufted 100% pure silk. I feel certain i...

Orange Accents & Accessories for the Home
Roundup

Earlier this week we brought you a Red Roundup, now let’s see what orange has in store. Orange is a very inviting color; it’s friendly and warming, and it's a very popular choice in the Room for...

3 Colorful & Graphic Rugs by Liz Eeuwes

Tomorrow marks the beginning of Color Month on Apartment Therapy and we'll begin to post the first entries from our Room for Color contest. In anticipation, here are some amazingly colorful rugs fro...

Even More Union Jack

Last month, Geoff posted a selection of images with the Union Jack as decor. The appeal seems widespread — I think it has to do with the symmetry of the design. We see the Stars and Stripes us...

The Redeploy Rug by Rebekah Rauser
Design Showcase 2009 - The Semi-Finals

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Landscape Rugs by Liz Eeuwes

Have you ever seen the tulip fields of Holland from an airplane? It is completely breathtaking and now Liz Eeuwes has created a rug depicting the scene. And yes, it really can look like this!...

Message in a Box by Wendy Plomp

I spent yesterday helping my sister move from one Brooklyn neighborhood to the one adjacent, and started thinking about how much cardboard box waste must be generated on a typical first of any month...

Pop Tartan: Modern Plaid Carpet Tiles from FLOR

It's no secret that PLAID is BIG right now — and FLOR is in the game with their new pattern Pop Tartan. It's a modern spin on tartan with a relaxed, hand-drawn feel in 3 colorways....

Redeploy Rug by Rebekah Rauser
Design Showcase 2009

Materials: wool exterior, wool-blend interior Price Point: $800 - $1000 "The Redeploy Rug combines the necessary durability of military surplus blankets with the organic fluidity of a topographic-...

Roundup: Decorating with Feathers

Feather motifs have been popular for awhile and I am not especially partial to them but perhaps that just has to do with my name — I feel sort of protective! I've rounded up an assortment of i...

Union Jacks: The British are Back

OK, so Apartment Therapy has featured Union Jack Roundups before, but with the popular style constantly being reinvented, we thought we’d bring you up-to-date on the famous look....

Nautical Roundup: Anchor Designs for the Home

The weekend is here, but before you head off to the beach let’s check out some housewares inspired by a classic fisherman's anchor. A pillow is also a much less permanent than a tattoo!l Arg. ...

The Illusion of Clutter: Simple Products That Tell a Different Story

Perhaps we've passed a mark in society where our over indulgences and pack-rat tendancies can now be explored and satisfied through mere illusions — whether it's multi-colored wallpaper, a pri...

Four Funny Welcome Mats

Escapes Month may find you welcoming others into your home. We've all acted like it's a pain to host guests in our homes, but most of the moaning and groaning is only in jest. Here, we share four fu...

10 Striped Rugs under $200

Yes, we do have a thing for stripes lately. And we love striped rugs, but we don't really want to pay a fortune for something we're going to walk all over, so we rounded up 10 of our favorite stripe...

Identify This Rug or Something Like It?
Good Questions

Q: I've been searching for a rug to brighten up our living room and I fell in love with this rug that I saw in the Domino decorating book. Unfortunately, the book doesn't mention where it is from - ca...

Roundup: Updated Rustic Western Style Part 2

Since our first roundup of Updated Rustic Western Style, we've noticed a lot more furniture and furnishings that are appropriate for this look — and surprisingly, a lot is coming from mainstre...

Good, Cheap Summer Floor Covers

A friend of mine is rushing, rushing to finish up the renovations on a summer house he bought last winter so that it will be ready for his August renters. Time is tight, and the last thing he is in...

Swedish Rag Rugs

These bright and cheerful Swedish Rag Rugs seem like the perfect way to brighten up a hallway or kitchen. The vintage rugs come from southern Sweden and each one is a one-of-a-kind little piece of f...

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