Natural Area Rugs

If you’re looking to increase the elegance of your wood flooring—look no more.  By adding a beautiful area rug to your space, you can create a more exciting and inviting environment. 

There are many benefits to adding an area rug to a wood surface.  Area rugs have the amazing ability to accent the room’s décor, personalize the environment and soften the surface.  Let’s not forget that area rugs also provide warmth to an otherwise cold floor. 

Here at Natural Area Rugs, there are many different kinds of area rugs to personalize any room in your home.  Whether you’re wanting to add comfort or ambience—there’s an affordable and durable area rug waiting just for you.

I recently read an article in Floor Covering Weekly about the recent popularity of indoor/outdoor area rugs, which helped me understand our recent success with our new indoor/outdoor bamboo natural rugs. It said that homeowners are looking to move inside looks to outside locales. Bamboo itself is sought after in design right now; the natural wood makes for a very elegant addition to household areas. Since 2000, there has been a dramatic increase in Americans using outdoor spaces as additional living areas in their homes. The added benefit of outdoor usage appeals to customers looking to find a rug that matches with common outdoor fabrics. And why not have a living area outdoors? With all the recent concern for the environment, it’s no wonder people want to move outside and get back in touch with nature. Why not bring the bamboo outside where it was originally grown? You have to admit, bamboo looks astonishing in sunlight due to its smooth exterior.

The three indoor/outdoor natural bamboo rugs that Natural Area Rugs offers feature a neutral brown color binding that will match a variety of outdoor/patio settings. The bamboo rugs come in three different bamboo-widths: “Chateau” is the narrowest, “Cottage” in the middle, and the “Monterrey” is made with bamboo pieces about an inch thick. The backing of the bamboo carpets is water-resistant polypropylene, which is suitable for outdoors.

There are many reasons Natural Area Rugs sells wool rugs. Wool has been used in carpets for many, many years, yet most people don’t know all the great benefits of having a wool carpet in a home.

Wool is very durable, it has excellent wear, resists stains and keeps color well. It also has the ability to restore itself after compression and staining. Wool is also naturally fire retardant and minor burn residue can be brushed away.

On top of these qualities, wool is able to control interior humidity by acting as a natural sponge—absorbing moisture when the climate is humid and releasing moisture when the climate is dry. Because air is able to move through the wool fibers, it actually purifies air as well by neutralizing pollutants (such as formaldehyde, sulfur dioxide and nitrous oxides) by means of its fibers. Wool material does not promote the growth of dust mites or bacteria, unlike other fabrics.

Natural Area Rugs’ blend of wool and sisal creates a very durable, elegant-looking product. The combined durability of wool and sisal make the wool/sisal rugs about as durable as a rug can be. The cross wool/sisal weave creates a beautiful look and a soft feel.

Natural Area Rugs offers a few different kinds of bindings on their sisal, seagrass, and mountain grass rugs. We also offer jute, bamboo, and wool rugs that have a 3” mitered-corner, blind-stitch binding (jute has no binding).

The simplest binding style is the top-stitch. It is so called because the stitch is made on top of the binding, and can be seen in plain view. The top stitch binding is usually made showing 1¼” on each edge of the rug. 

Modern area rugs, custom rugs, and accent rugs can be crafted with either the top-stitch or blind stitch binding. The blind stitch is sewed so that the thread is not visible, and the binding is wrapped around the edge of the carpet. The blind stitch is a little more elegant as the threads are not visible on the binding.

The blind stitch can also be made with mitered corners. To anyone unfamiliar with building techniques, mitering is the process by which two separate perpendicular pieces are bound together at an angle. Blind stitches and mitered corners require much more effort than the top stitch. The blind stitch can be made with anywhere from ½” to 3” of the binding showing on the edge of the area rug.

All of Natural Area Rugs’ carpets made overseas are manufactured with a 3” blind-stitch binding with mitered-corners.