By Swati Parvatiyar*

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Rugs – The Colour, Design & Style Under Your Feet 

In Britain and the US rug is often used for a partial floor covering. It is unlike a carpet which usually covers the space from wall to wall.  In reference to handmade carpets, however, the names rug and carpet are used interchangeably.

 

Visual Pathways

First up, corridors- they can tend to be dead, unwelcoming spaces. So what better approach to liven them up than with a floor covering? One reason you might need to consider a carpet in your lobby is that it can make a visual pathway that attracts the eye to any interfacing rooms. This implies you can experiment with patterns and shades of the chosen carpet. Although, you’ll need to consider how your plan complements the associating rooms. 

Interface Spaces

By putting comparable style/shaded floor coverings in associating spaces, you bind together and make a visual association between the rooms. This, thus, makes each room stream, starting with one then onto the next as your eye is attracted to these. This functions admirably in nonpartisan or potentially negligible spaces. 

Sound Absorption

Carpets are the ideal answer for sound retention particularly if you have hardwood/tiled floors in your homes. These enhance the interiors extraordinarily in case of pads/condos. 

Make a feature

Calculating and layering a carpet on top of another has made an element out of the seating region in this open-plan space. So in case, you’re battling to discover a mat enormous enough to guarantee it doesn’t seem as though it is a little fish swimming in the sea with regards to your seating regions, settle for the layered impact. It’ll make a more prominent effect than one enormous mat. 

As Art

Floor coverings have become show-stoppers on their own and on the off chance that you end up running over one that is simply too acceptable to even think about stepping on, at that point possibly think about draping it on your dividers. They give a beautifying component as well as look incredible for dividers where you may have a tad of additional assistance in engrossing sound from abutting rooms. 

Strengthen Your Design Scheme

While picking your floor covering look towards different components of your plan plot, for example, shading. On the off chance that the mat you pick has a component of your plan conspire, it will help strengthen, and give a strong feel and look to your room. Floor coverings truly are basic to making a sharp-looking room. 

Zone Areas within Open Plan Spaces

The issue with open arrangement spaces is that your furniture can look somewhat lost, a lot of like a boat adrift. Use floor coverings to strengthen zones inside the space with mats. They’re extraordinary at drafting off spaces and mooring your furnishings. Gracious and they help assimilate sound which is a need in huge open spaces. 

Add Character and Personality with Pattern

In the event that you need to be courageous and use design, there is no preferable route over presenting it through a carpet. For one, it’s simpler to live with and contrasted with, enhancing dividers. Utilising design beneath your visual field when going into a room causes it to show up less meddlesome. Floor coverings are additionally an extraordinary method to acquaint design with unbiased spaces and give your room a character. 

Infuse Some Colour

Restrooms will in general be very nonpartisan/clean spaces, so adding a carpet will present tone as well as textural warmth, just as being handy and agreeable underneath.

 

*Swati Parvatiyar is the Head of Department of Interior Designs at Jagannath Institute of Management Sciences (JIMS), Vasant Kunj-II, which offers one of the best interior design courses in New Delhi

Article courtesy jimssouthdelhi.com