Foreign Perspectives

We’re in the market for several new rugs for our place and have been hunting around the carpet shops now and again.

Don’t you find it such a pain to do that? We know more or less what we want but that business of leafing through rugs in the carpet shops is a real pain after a while. You’d think that they’d have some kind of display rack for the things but they never seem to so after you’ve leafed through the first couple of rugs at the top, you can’t lift any more of them.

So to avoid the hassle and to get a proper look at the things, we’ve started looking around the online sites. They’re generally a bit slow to load with all the photos of course but even the slowest of the sites has to be better than leafing through a pile of rugs in a carpet shop.

The range seems much wider than in the shops too. Not only that, but without the space limitation, they can show you whole ranges of rugs that you’d never get to see and in all kinds of different fabrics so, for example, you get silk rugs, wool rugs in traditional styles and, for something different, contemporary designs. You’d need to be in a really major carpet store to get even a fraction of that kind of range.

It goes without saying that the prices on a like for like basis are lower. However, I suspect that you’d end up paying more as chances are you’ll choose a better quality of rug when you can see what’s available. Not only that, but the rug you’ll get will be one that you actually want rather than whatever is available in the shop so overall you’ll come out well ahead of the game.