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Antique Rugs: What to Look ForThe inspection specific to age — dating from yarn, dye and wear, finding restoration under raking light, and assessing a foundation that may be a century old.25 July 2026 · 3 minWhere to Buy: Antique RugsSpecialist dealers, auction houses and estate sales — where genuine antique material actually trades, and why the general rug trade is the wrong place to look.25 July 2026 · 2 minArea Rugs by RoomEvery room in the house, with the size, fibre and pile that survives what it actually does — and the attractive answers that are wrong in each one.25 July 2026 · 5 minWhat Are Area Rugs?An area rug covers part of a floor rather than the whole room — construction, materials, size and cost, including the failure modes most guides leave out.25 July 2026 · 9 minLayout Rules for Area RugsWhere the furniture legs go, how much floor to leave, and the three arrangements every room resolves into — with the cases where breaking the rule is right.25 July 2026 · 5 minBathroom Rugs & MatsConstant damp, bare feet and a hard floor — the room where almost every natural fibre is wrong, and what actually works instead.25 July 2026 · 2 minBedroom RugsUnderfoot on waking is the whole brief — the three placement options around a bed, and where it is worth spending and where it is not.25 July 2026 · 3 minBest Materials for Bedroom RugsThe one room where comfort legitimately beats durability — which fibres are worth it barefoot, and the two that are wrong beside a bed for opposite reasons.25 July 2026 · 4 minPlacing Bedroom RugsWhere the rug goes relative to the bed, the tables and the door — including beds against a wall, small rooms, bay windows and two rugs.25 July 2026 · 4 minSizing Bedroom RugsThree arrangements that work and one that does not — sized by bed rather than by room, with the exact figures for every mattress size.25 July 2026 · 3 minBohemian RugsOverdyed, patchwork, distressed and layered — what the aesthetic actually involves, what the processes do to a rug, and what it costs at resale.25 July 2026 · 2 minBraided RugsAmerican colonial technique, still made and still practical — how braided construction works, why the shape matters, and where it fails.25 July 2026 · 2 min