Rugs Vs. Carpets

Many people usually mix up carpets and rugs although they are very different types of home decoration. Carpets usually extend over the entire floor from wall to wall, and are set securely into place – while rugs usually cover only a particular area of the floor, and are usually either placed underneath a table or to designate an area of a living room meant for hanging out and conversation. While it’s your choice, of course, to decide which of these to place into your home, it can help to know the disadvantages and advantages of both – key facts that the experts at Aladdin will elucidate on in this brief blog posting.

Area Rugs

As a storied, tried, and true way to cover up a tile, cement, or wood floor, rugs can add stylish flair and an artistic edge due to their varied colors and designs as compared to carpeting. Rugs can define specific parts of the room, which gives you the advantage of being able to easily switch up and customize your decor, which can flip the room’s visual and spatial impressions with some simple adjustments. When utilized inside a large open space plan, a rug can unite aesthetically disparate furniture together to create a more solid decorative unity.

Wall to Wall Carpets

This form of carpeting is strongly secured to the floor with tacking strips and glue, and is unable to shift around, creating the possibility for tripping and falling that is present with rugs. When utilized within a solid decor scheme, wall to wall carpeting can join multiple rooms in a house, and make smaller homes seem bigger. Besides these obvious pros, wall to wall carpets add layers of sound insulation and warmth to homes, making them especially useful for homes with kids who crawl on the floor, or the elderly in winter.

Rug Pros and Cons

Rugs are easy to wash and dry, so they might make a better choice for homeowners who suffer allergies. Rugs allow people to have a tile or hardwood floor but still keep an aspect of warmth by covering it up with a rug. However, unsecured rugs can pose a falling risk, and have been seen to cause slips and trips at a exponentially higher level than wall to wall carpeting, making them perhaps not the best choice for homes housing the elderly.

Carpet Pros and Cons

Wall to wall carpets have slipping resistance, and add levels of soft cushioning and warmth when they are placed throughout the entire home- even more so when they have memory foam pads placed underneath. Although carpets of many different colors, designs, and pile types are available, neutral colored carpeting can help unite disparate aesthetics in a single space. The main drawback to wall to wall carpeting, is that after it is installed it can take a bit of time for the nasty chemical scents to wear off, up to several months in fact. This is a phenomenon called off gassing. Additionally, carpets can quickly accumulate set in impressions called wear patterns in heavily trafficked areas – and they take much more work to clean and maintain than rugs.