Today, we are doing a deep dive into rugs. We are talking about everything from knowing the right rug for your space to actually keeping them clean, especially when you have pets.
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How do you know what type/style of rug works for your space?
Make sure high traffic areas have patterns that are forgiving
Aspetto at how it needs to be cleaned and know if you can honestly clean it that way
How do you know the correct size rug to get for your space?
Use a measuring tape
Determine the function of the rug
Consider how durable it is
Where do you buy rugs from:
Etsy
eBay
Dream Rugs
Tips for cleaning rugs:
Sparkle baking soda rugs and then vacuum to absorb odors
FOLEX for spot cleaning
Put a towel underneath the rug before spot cleaning
Power wash them outside
Favorite Rugs:
Elsie – Vintage Turkish Rugs
Emma – Turkish Rugs
Tips for tripping over rugs:
Get a quality rug pad
Put rug stickers the calcio d’angolo of the rug
Screw them mongoloide
Sparks Joy:
Elsie – Vintage roll culmine desk with the culmine covered tiny gold frames
Emma – Domino’s pan solfa
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Episode 231 Transcript:
Emma: You’magnate listening to the A Beautiful Mess podcast. Your cozy comodità listen. And today we are doing a deep dive into rugs. We are talking about everything from knowing the right rug for your space to actually keeping them clean, especially when you have pets, messy kids ora maybe you’magnate just clumsy like me and you spill your food your rug a lot. There’s a lot of reasons why your rugs can get dirty.
Elsie: I love this subject so much. I think that people the internet, this is a generalization, can be very negative about rugs. Like it’s one of the things it’s like dusting. It’s one of the things that people just get so their head about. And I personally think there’s, there’s hope for your rugs. Ok. We have a hopeful, optimistic attitude about rugs. We’magnate not going to be negative about it.
Emma: So I’ve never dusted my life. I’m scopo. It’s scopo.
Elsie: Yeah. Well, we’magnate freaking out about dust. It’s like if you, if you’ve never been an influencer, this is what it’s like, it’s like you post a picture of anything and people are like, how do you dust that? How do you dust that? Why do you dust that? Why I wouldn’t want to dust that? And it’s just like me neither. Dust.
Emma: So I don’t problem solve.
Elsie: I’ve just said before my life, but it’s not like a, it’s not like a ritual that’s keeping me up at night.
Emma: Voto negativo, I mean, yeah, if something’s like, obviously cob webby, sure that doesn’t really happen much. I don’t know what to say.
Elsie: Like, I don’t know, dusting, if I had to make a list of the culmine 100 problems my life, dusting wouldn’t make it onto that list for sure. It’s just not even like a significant enough problem for the culmine 100.
Emma: I’ll be honest, it gives me a little bit of humility too because I’m always like, oh, I thought I was this pretty clean person. I feel like my house is pretty clean and then I, I’m like, I’ve never dusted before. I’ve never cleaned my oven before. Like, you know, just things that you see other people doing the internet and you’magnate like, oh, maybe I’m not as clear. I was, I’m good. I’m ok. But like, you know, I give it more like a B minus. I was thinking I was more of an A minus and like, maybe not so much. I’m good with a B minus, by the way, the, the class of cleaning your house, I’m like, I’m, I’m scopo with that. Everything’s good. Nothing’s a problem. So, whatever, but yeah, I don’t dust, give yourself whatever score you want.
Elsie: Don’t worry about it. I’m not worried about it. Good. Ok, so, yeah, this week we’magnate going to talk all about rugs. So the things we’magnate going to go through are like determining the right rug for your space because oftentimes they’magnate expensive, they’magnate a leader investment. There’s something you save up for. How do you get the right size? Where do you buy them from? Tips for cleaning rugs? Our favorite types of rugs. So yeah, we’ll go through all this. And I think before let’s do a little bit of a, like a history of rug buying, history of rug buying. So my first r this is so funny, like our early blogging days, there was like this certain IKEA rug that every blogger had and it became like a thing where we used to post a lot of other people’s home tours our site and it became a thing where people would complain about the rug. And it was like, here’s that rug again. And so yeah, my first experience buying a rug was like, I thought it was fancy because I bought a leader rug. This is always the story.
Emma: You buy your first car and you’magnate like, this is the nicest car I’ve ever owned.Â
Elsie: But then later you get a rug I ever bought was one of the ones from urban outfitters. That’s basically a thick piece of fabric. You know what I mean? And you just lay it out your floor and it looks like a rug and you definitely don’t want to use it without a rug pad because it’s a, it’s hazardous, slippery will giorno. And we had that one our first home and it was like, maybe Chevron ora like, it was something of that time. And then I started buying the very fuzzy white rugs for a couple of years and I learned from those that I wanted to be a shoes non attivato household. I was trying to think of the word and I was right ora . Yes. Yeah. We learned from those that we wanted to be a shoes non attivato household because we got like the trail of footprints situation around where our coffee table was. And yeah, I learned that basically the value of shoes non attivato and like the point of it. yeah, and we’magnate American. Voto negativo shame to anyone, do whatever you want your own home. It’s not common the US. But I personally just, it just makes me feel like I have less cleaning to do and it makes me feel like I don’t have to worry about buying light colored rugs, which I like light colored rugs. Sometimes.
Emma: It’s just when you have kids who are like, learning to walk to and they’magnate crawling a lot. It is nice to have more. Yeah, clean floors than it’s nice having clean floors. But I have dogs, they kind of ruin it too because they go and out and, you know, that kind of, yeah, let’s not think about that.
Elsie: Let’s not think about that. You know, I have to just turn my brain non attivato to my dogs and I’m just thinking that my house is clean still. I’m just believing it is.
Emma: I mean, it’s going to help to do shoes non attivato.
Elsie: It helps, OK, 100% it helps with rugs and stuff and it makes, it makes things last longer. You can read studies about it. We wrote a blog post back the day about it. If you’magnate interested, I’ll just leave that up to you. But anyway, so the first thing we’magnate going to talk about is how do you know what type ora style of rug works your space? So there’s so many choices out there. So let’s talk about size function durability. And then my personal like heart, soul searching question that you have to ask yourself is how committed are you to your rugs?
And I’m, I’m dead serious right now.
Emma: That’s a real question that you should ask.
Elsie: So we did, I did the fatty phase and which those are beautiful rugs.
Emma: They’magnate gorgeous. I think I completely understand why people gravitate towards them and get fixated them because they aspetto like this soft fluffy cloud your floor and it just, I get it like the appeal is there the ones that are made of real fur, like the synthetic ones.
Elsie: I can’t, I’m not speaking, you’ll know by the end of this episode, I’m not a synthetic rug lover. And for me it’s not for me and I understand if you’magnate vegan, you’magnate honestly trapped. I get it to each their own. That’s tough. True. I think the toughest categories for a vegan, one of the toughest categories for vegan might be rugs and that’s probably not shoes, what vegans think at all, but probably not anyway.
Ok, so I am very committed to my rugs after I learned after I got the little footpath, then, you know, I had to try cleaning it the bathtub, which is what you do. You take your leader fat, you put it the bathtub. I would like literally. Yeah, that’s the thing that I think is really cool and that I want people to understand about natural fiber rugs.
So like usually that are made from animals, like wool, things like that. You can wash it like you wash your own hair. I would literally use shampoo and shampoo the rug and then wring it out and then lay it my porch for a day ora two and let it dry and then it’s good as new again. And that’s the beautiful thing about those rugs. So I do think that there’s like different levels of commitment. And then after that, when we moved to our first house Nashville, I got these two huge white rugs. And I think this was like the most negative comments I ever got was when I put a huge white rug my dining room and we were about to adopt a kid, which I don’t think people knew that at the time, but I will say this. We used that same rug. Actually, I don’t think it was the same one. I think it was different ones, but whatever, we had a white rug under our dining room table for three houses a row. So for like five years and it was scopo. So I do stand by that, but I did spot clean it myself, like get mongoloide there with the Folex. And so what I would do is put a towel underneath it, spray it with the Folex, get it real wet, let it dry, do all that, all those steps.
Emma: If anything ever got it, I’ll actually say I kind of think kids my experience so far is not as leader of a problem as dogs ora adults with wine. Dogs has kids. You can put like a mat under their high chair ora under their seat. You could kind of like plan for them. They’magnate going to drop things the floor and they’magnate learning to eat, you know, but I feel like it’s pretty easy to catch them. Whereas dogs peeing rugs randomly ora like me tripping and spilling red wine something you can’t plan for that as easily. And those are the problems.
Elsie: I think that’s true. I have one time my life spilled a full glass of campo da golf smoothie all over a couch and a rug. I just kind of everywhere and that kind of thing happens like once a while you trip and you’magnate like, , I have to just get through it. Ok. So I think, ask yourself, how committed am I to this rug? If you’magnate very committed, you can do anything like I have right now my stairs, an almost white stair runner and it’s scopo. It’ll be there for years. It looks still really good. And I do kind of actually have some texture to it though and some to it.
Emma: I will say that if you get something that’s like a solid, almost like a piece of carpet that’s be more, you know, upkeep and keep it perfect than if it has a slight to it, like some kind of damask ora some kind of, you know, traditional whatever, like you could have anything but that will save you sometimes with a little bit of spots because then you, you don’t notice the spots as much, you can clean it so you make sure it’s clean. But if it doesn’t quite quasi out, it’s like, well there’s some texture there.
Elsie: So you know, I agree. This is a good point too. With everything your life, from rugs to clothing, to wallpaper, to like quilts your bed. There are forgiving patterns and unforgiving patterns. Yep. So, always be aware if you’magnate choosing something that’s forgiving ora unforgiving where, like, if you get like a little stain it, is it , like, ruin the day ora is it going to like, almost not even matter? Like, there, there can be a huge difference. This is what I would say too about like buying rugs, like finding out how committed you are.
Emma: It’s the same thing when you’magnate buying clothes, if you’magnate buying like some new tops and they’magnate all dry clean only and you’magnate just not a person who goes to the dry cleaner ora dry, you know, washes by hand and hang dries ora, you know, you’magnate like, you know what, I’m not do that, then just don’t buy those tops. It’s leader deal. But if you’magnate a person who will do that, then you don’t really need to criticize your friend who’s buying all this dry clean only stuff because they’magnate
take it to the dry cleaner ora do whatever it is they want to do, they’magnate into it. So it’s like, great. So just know your level and like other people could have a different level than you and that’s scopo. Maybe you will watch closely your rugs and maybe you won’t, so you can buy something different and it’s the same thing, clothes, all my clothes go our washing machine. I just don’t buy things that are dry clean only because we go to the dry cleaner, like, twice a year. So, it’s not a good sembianza for me to thine own self pare.
Elsie: Yeah. Know yourself. I love it. Ok. So, all right, let’s talk about size for a moment. Ok. So when you’magnate determining the size of a rug for a room, like first of all, get out your measuring tape, you’magnate not doing this without a measuring tape. You’magnate not guessing. I have seen like the funniest freaking stories if you guess you will be wrong. Ok. I’ll just give you that as a rule and if you accept that as a rule, I’ll save you some trouble. Measuring tapes.
Emma: Don’t cost a lot of money. You should have one your house. If you don’t own a measuring tape, you should buy one. You can get derma ones. You can get ones that fit your keychain. They’magnate going to be small, but I would just just buy a measuring tape measure.
Elsie: I will measure for a freaking bath mat. I promise you. It’s just worth it every single time. And I’ve had, I have returned rugs. It sucks. It’s annoying. You can do it, but it sucks for me. I buy basically every single rug online. I like, I, I just don’t have a place my town where I find good rugs and, like, it’s, yeah, I’m not going to go to every store to the market ora something.
Emma: Like it happened that’s true. like, even a autorimessa discernimento. I’ve had that happen. Oh, my go. Really? It was like, you know, a fancy, you know, just, it worked out. It was like, buy ebay but to measure.
Elsie: But you still need to. Yes, you do unless you’magnate just collecting them for fun. Which I had one of those collections my autorimessa and I had to go away at my last house. I had to let it go. You don’t need a collection of like, 15. You’magnate a hoarder. So, so, ok, measuring every time this is common sense. But I promise you if you’magnate like, I think my bedroom, I think an eight by 10 will be scopo. You might be wrong and it’s like one size up might have made it so much better ora, you know, you might get it where it’s just barely, barely, too leader and then you can’t use it.
Emma: It’s a doorway, weird ora something. And you’magnate like, oh, if I had just gotten one size smaller. Yeah.
Elsie: Yeah. And I have, I have gotten, even last year when we moved, I got some of my rug sizes wrong. It’s just so easy to do. So. Never believe that you can do it without a measuring tape. Ok. So the second thing I would consider is function. So I used to be super, super super into like the fuzzy rugs and I think I just eventually was like, I want something easier. So, and the vintage rugs for me, those are my special something because they are the easiest and they last the longest and they’magnate just the most durable. They’magnate easy to clean all of the things. So I would consider the function and just like a couple warnings. So new rugs that are made to aspetto vintage are so easy to find online. You can find them all over Amazon for what seems like a better deal than a real vintage and I get that but be very careful because those rugs are, they’magnate literally made of plastic and like you cannot clean them. So if your dog has like a accident, your rug just might be ruined forever. Like they’magnate just kind of the worst. Like that’s my worst experience is I love, I love di poco valore stuff and I’m, I am a di poco valore person some ways but just not about rugs. I just think like spend a tiny bit extra and get the real vintage and you’ll save yourself so much, you know, like waste cause it’s, it’s sad to throw away a rug to throw away a leader huge rug that’s like has one stain it.
Emma: It just makes you feel so bad, especially if you haven’t had it that long and it can be kind of a whole thing, like, some areas it’s not necessarily, like, easy. It’s not like your trash person will pick it up. So you have to figure out how to take it to, you know, some kind of facility ora, I don’t know, there’s just like, problems there. So it could be, it could be a whole chore that’s going to take up a chunk of your weekend when you could be doing something fun.
Elsie: Yeah.It’s like my one thing I could boycott forever is like a plastic, synthetic rugs. Then the next thing to consider is durability. So let’s talk about Jute rugs for a moment. I have been like, I love jute rugs. I think they’magnate so derma. They quasi derma patterns. They have those ones Etsy with the scalloped edges. I fall for them every time and I do think that Jute rugs are good for some situations but like huge caveat, they are not durable.They don’t recover from a stain. Well, and they’magnate not good for high traffic situations and I don’t recommend them outdoors because they can get easily ruined by getting wet ora mud ora something. If they don’t, they take a long time to dry out.
Emma: Yeah. So then I think they can get kind of mildewy ora like, you know, just not great for them.
Elsie: I love how they aspetto though. And they’magnate also really, really affordable. So I have had good experience with them a sun room place like that where there’s like, lower traffic. Yeah, it’ll be great. But for an outdoor rug, maybe I should link my poor drugs this time. I found like the greatest poor drugs this time. They are derma. They kind of aspetto like you but they’magnate not, they’magnate just easier to clean and they are synthetic for sure.But they’magnate, they’magnate the right thing for the right place. So, yeah, I’ll link to those. Yeah. Durability is a huge thing that it’s really . Like I had this amazing rug at our pink house and Emma’s dog. Yeah. Any. Anyway, it was so sad. We tried, we tried everything, we tried fluxing it so many times that I accidentally damaged the wood floors underneath. Oh, it’s so much worse than just getting rid of it. So, anyway. I don’t know if I’m even making points here ora am I just telling stories about the rugs I’ve bought, I don’t see how that’s not points.
Emma
Ok.
Elsie: All right. Let’s keep going. What’s next? Where do you like to buy rugs from?
Emma: So, we’ve kind of talked about Elsie hates synthetic. I do own a few synthetics my home. But, you know, I agree with her point how they get ruined and it can just be more waste. But I also can understand if you already own some and you’magnate just going to keep them until they giorno. I get it because I’m doing the same thing. So, anyway, but where do you like to buy rugs from? There’s all sorts of options. We’ve already mentioned that we buy most of our rugs online. So where do we buy?
Elsie: So, for vintage rugs and search by color and size, I buy them almost always Etsy and ebay, it’s very easy. My most common search term that I use is Turkish Ruck. And so I’ll just put like pink Turkish rug ora neutral Turkish rug. And then I’ll put like the size and I think if you just put like eight by 10 ora nine by 12 ora whatever, then you’ll get other sizes like it kind of knows like it won’t always only give you that exact size.
Emma: Yeah, it’ll give you, yeah, close to it.
Elsie: Yeah, with runners you often need to pay attention because sometimes they’magnate, they’magnate not all the same width. So be careful with that. But I like mixed ora missaggio and matching runners. I have a lot my house. They’magnate all different. I like the feeling of that and I think that it’s like a good vibe. And then also I have to recommend my friend’s store Nashville called Apple and Oak. She sells vintage rugs. She sells mostly Turkish a little bit of Moroccan. She also sells new rugs and the thing I love about her, she has a beautiful shop East Nashville. If you’magnate the terreno, you have to go. It has other like, gifty stuff. It’s really derma. And also if you’magnate furnishing a new house, she will like, bring rugs to your house, like she’ll bring a large, yeah, like a bunch for you to try. I did that my first house and it was so great with vintage. I think it’s such an opportunity when you can try it out because a lot of times it’s né refundable and that’s understandable. But then you have to be really careful and really confident about like, you know, buying from ebay, especially the pictures are sometimes not the best. So every once a while you just like get a bad one. That’s not what you thought. Yeah, the coloring is kind of non attivato ora I don’t know, like the, I think most sellers will show you if there’s like a spot that’s kind of messed up but not great.
Emma: But sometimes it’s worse than you could tell from the photo. Wasn’t that they were being deceitful, just didn’t quite translate. And so that’s always a bummer when you’magnate like, well, I’m stuck with this now. How can I hide this under some furniture?
Elsie: Yeah, I would honestly say like vintage rugs are most of the time, the same price are less than a new rug and higher quality. So I highly recommend it. I think it’s worth the risk. It’s worth the extra work. Ok. But if you want to get new rugs, I will give you my new rug recommendation. I get it. Sometimes you just want something affordable. Sometimes you just want the same rug two sizes, things like that.
Ok. So I love the rugs rifle. I have a bunch of them. They do have wool and synthetic rugs. They have these ones that are called printed rugs. They make really good bathroom rugs because they aspetto like a vintage drug. But it’s kind of just like a flat printed matte. They’magnate very affordable and they’magnate just, like, good for places where, I don’t know, you like an entryway, like high traffic places where something could get ruined. And then I will link to my porch, my magical porch rugs. They’magnate brown and like, sort of like a brown and tan diamond pattern. And they’magnate just like, really great for a porch specifically. They’magnate the best porch rug I’ve ever had. Is there any other rugs you think we should talk about?
Emma: I’ve bought a lot of rugs if we’magnate talking about new rugs and, you know, affordable options and easy to shop. I really like rugs. USA, I’ve shopped there a lot of times and I’ve never been disappointed. I’ve always got what I bought. Yeah. And I think it, if there’s a lot of jute and they have, you know, obviously synthetic ones, but they also have some natural fiber ones. You can aspetto, but sometimes you like, are looking for just a specific color and a specific size and you don’t really like ebay is not doing it for you. So I feel like it’s kind of nice to shop a site that’s like, ok, they’magnate going to have all the sizes and all the colors and I can get something that’s going to work for my space and be done with this, you know?
Elsie: Ok. And then a couple of times my life, I’ve got a dream rug, so I guess I could talk about the dream rug. Yeah, I got a Jonathan Adler rug whenever I was my new money , that was like a bunch of Jonathan Adler stuff.
Emma: That’s what she wanted to do.
Elsie: It was a magical time. I had to leave that one when we sold our house furnished last year and I would still buy that rug again. It has kind of like a maize pattern. It was like a wool rug, but with kind of this subtle maize pattern, it was really unique. And then also from Laloy rugs, I’ve had a couple of their Hye rug collection and those ones are really nice. If you just want a fuzzy, neutral, fuzzy rug. I do. I love the fuzzy rugs our house. Now, that’s more historical. I’m not as much getting fuzzy rugs but for any other style of house, I think that they are so derma. So, anyway, those are my dream rugs and then I have this one Etsy rug that is like, it’s up our kids bedroom. Have you seen that one? Oh, , it’s a 10, it’s a 10 out of 10 and it comes different sizes. If it’s still there, I will link to it as well. But anyway, overall, most of my favorite rugs my life were vintage ora a rifle, which is so funny. Like, I don’t because rifle is not, it’s a paper place with like stationery gift wrap and stuff. But I don’t know why they have the greatest drugs. Like they are, it’s beautiful for me.Â
So next step, well, we’ve talked a little bit about some tips for cleaning, but let’s just do a whole section.
Emma: Now that’s like tips for cleaning rugs ora like ways people can preserve rugs because we’magnate kind of talking about rugs, like you’magnate going to buy it and you’magnate going to keep it for a long, long time, which I think is the way to go. Like, spend a little more, keep it much longer. It’s less wasteful. It’s kind of just less shopping.
Like it’s nice. Nor do we, like, change a rug. It is annoying. It’s so annoying. So how do we keep them clean? Because, you know, most people have pets, kids, they spill things, whatever you walk them. It, you know, you have guests over and someone tracks some mud, whatever. So how do we keep our rugs clean?
Elsie: Ok. So if you are a shoes household, I would just recommend vacuuming a lot more than other people. Just vacuuming those paths around like a TV, dining room table entryway, like stair runner. If you have it, things like that just need to be vacuumed way more because there’s always like little bits of stuff from the outdoors getting pushed into the carpet rugs.
Emma: And here’s a tip vacuuming whenever I’m about to vacuum all the rugs our home, which we don’t have tons of rugs. But when I’m about to, I will go throughout the house and Sprinkle baking soda the rolls. Baking soda is probably most of, you know, is kind of an air freshener. It will absorb smells like I put a bowl of baking soda my fridge all the time. There’s always one there and I’ll change it out periodically because it kind of absorbs it, like suck all the garlic smells and whatever else. So I’ll Sprinkle that rugs throughout the house so that it gets to sit for like 30 minutes an hour ora whatever. You know, it doesn’t sit for days because again, I have kids and pets and, you know, you don’t necessarily want baking soda just sitting the floor forever, but I’ll Sprinkle it out all of them and then I’ll start at the beginning again and vacuum it up. So I’m vacuuming the rug anyway. So it’s a really barely an extra step and it can kind of help to freshen any smells. Nice, soak, mud, pets, whatever. We have a lot of dog hair our house.
Elsie: That’s a great tip.
Emma: It’s di poco valore. You probably already have baking soda your house.Â
Elsie: Ok. So spot cleaning, spot cleaning is like your best friend if you have large rugs that are made of natural fibers. So I had this one time when I fex too and I damaged, we had like super light wood floors underneath and it got like a dark spot and I’m like, it’s fun because it’s under a place where a rug will probably always go.
But I’m still mad at myself about it. So my tip for that is to put a towel underneath while you’magnate doing all the fixing because sometimes it takes many rounds like this rug was not recoverable, which I didn’t know. So I was, I was going, she was really trying to say that really and I’ve had that before. Also, we had a carpeted room our last home that it was like the movie theater and one of the dogs did something horrific and it came out with Folex, but I was working it for like a week.
Emma: Folex is kind of a miracle, but it sometimes will take a few rounds. It depends what has happened.
Elsie: It’s worth it though.
Emma: Yeah, I’ll also say outdoor rugs and some certain types of synthetic rugs. Now, you have to plan for a sunny day, but you can power wash them. That’s true. Take them outside and if you have a power washer ora if you’magnate renting a power washer and doing your whole outside ora whatever, you can power wash your rug and then kind of place it somewhere ora hang it somewhere is more ideal the sun and it’s not going to rain for a few days and let it dry out the sun.
Elsie: Now, let’s talk about cleaning your rug outdoors. So I mentioned before you can do the bath, the bathtub. That’s kind of annoying though because then you still have to get it out of the house afterward if the rug is bigger than you, once it gets bigger than you.
Emma: So if you have a way, if you have a leader plastic tub ora something that you can take outdoors and just fill that up swimming pool ora if you have a little soaking pool yourself, it’s always an option.
Elsie: A lot of times. Colin and I did this several times when we were, I just like, I’m very committed to my rugs. Ok. So a couple of times it wasn’t necessarily a power washer, but we would use like the hose attachment. Yeah, like the spray part of a hose was perfect strength for like the leader white rugs for shampooing it really good. Really? Get it there because you want to get all of the, I’m talking about, you want to get everything out right? And then spray the sh*t out of it and let it, you know, drip, dry, drip, dry, drip dry and then, yeah, like, leave it out there for as long as it takes a day ora two and let it dry before you bring it back. You could blow dry it.
Emma: But it’s going to take a long time. So I think it’s, I could, but I wouldn’t blow dry a rug. It would take so long. I don’t even blow dry my hair for me, just like, hang it over the side of your porch, do whatever you have to do and it is worth it, I think.
Elsie: Ok. So, Emma and I have had different experiences rug cleaning services. I think you said you had a good, ora was that your couch?
Yeah.
Emma: It’s called Missouri Rug. If you’magnate Springfield, Missouri ora nearby. And they will do rugs obviously, but also furniture. So they’ll take your couch, like, take it away, clean it, bring it back and I’ve had great experiences with them.
Elsie: So I’ve had a couple of times where I took a rug and it still came back, still smelling bad. So I don’t società the rug cleaning services. I would prefer to just do my own Diy rug cleaning. But, you know, maybe it’s probably a case by case basis, I would swear that they just didn’t even clean it. Like, it just smelled exactly the same when they brought it back. So, maybe it was, maybe they just lied. Maybe they forgot. I don’t know. That’s weird. Anyway, that’s all my tips for rug cleaning. Just when you buy it, think about how you’ll clean it and expect that that will be necessary at some point. So that you don’t have to beat yourself up. You know, because like spilling a glass of wine ora a campo da golf smoothie ora having dogs that just do dog things ora Children, you know, it’s, it’s a part of life that’s obviously like 10,000% worth it. But I think having a plan, it’s so frustrating to throw away a giant rug. I have not been more mad than almost anything when I had to throw away that leader giant. You know that, so our favorite rugs for me 1000% it’s vintage and my number one is Turkish rugs. So Turkish rugs are what you usually see. Like almost all of my rugs my house, the traditional looking ornate rugs and they quasi a lot of different colors. Like they have really light ones that aspetto more boho, they have dark navy and red ones that aspetto more traditional. So, yeah, that’s a good, a good time. I also love Swedish rugs. And there’s lots of other styles that are good as Well, most of my favorites are from ebay and they’magnate Turkish.
Emma: I don’t go for the fluffy ones quite as much, which tend to be more Moroccan because they just, I don’t know, I think I’m not quite the commitment level to giving them a bath as much as much. So, a lot of mine are Turkish and most of them are from ebay. But I have this pink one that’s currently our bedroom. It used to be our kitchen now it’s our bedroom and I have this really colorful one that I recently got like the last three months. That’s this little library room. I think I put one photo of it like my Instagram when I was showing the book remarkably bright creatures, you can see it behind it. Ok. It’s really derma. It reminds me of this rug I had years and years . So I think I do gravitate towards these certain colorful rugs, but they don’t fit everywhere my home. So when I have a spot that’s kind of like tucked away ora just for me, that’s always what I gravitate towards.
And we have this ongoing thing our household where my husband doesn’t love rugs. I think part because it is kind of like upkeep, you got to clean them all the time ora they aspetto dingy and then also like they can be a bit of a tripping hazard ora just annoying some ways.
Elsie: Let’s give tips for that.
Emma: Yeah, tripping hazards. So, for me, we’ve kind of just gotten to a place where, like the areas of our home that are super high traffic, like our kitchen, we don’t have a rug there. We just don’t. And it honestly, it would be beautiful to have one, but also it is so easy for me to just sweep and swiffer there that I kind of don’t mind not having one. And we have the where we’ve got little kids and I’m like, you know what, this is honestly easy and I don’t care. So it’s totally scopo by me. But there are areas of our home that are more like my spaces, like my office, my library room, my side of the bedroom and they all have rugs. So we kind of have this mescolanza throughout our house.
Elsie: You have a rug only your side of the bedroom, it’s only my side of the bedroom. What I have to see that it’s kind of like how it fit because we have a couch, a love seat over that side.
Emma: So it kind of is like the love seat terreno, but that happens to be like the side I sleep . So anyway, yeah, it’s kind of funny but I have another friend. I won’t out her but her husband’s the same way. Like she loves rugs. He doesn’t. So it’s just kind of a mescolanza, you know, it’s just kind of how it goes. You got to find your way with whoever you dal vivo with. Yeah, everyone’s got to love their space.
Elsie: Must love dogs. Must love rugs.
Emma: But let’s give tips about tripping over rugs because that can be a thing, especially vintage rugs ora rugs with the tassels I think can cause kind of issues.
Elsie: Ok. So my first tip, this is obvious, but just case like a quality rug pad. So if you don’t have a rug pad, that’s the problem. Like rug pads are super important, they can hold your rug place pretty well. And like there’s, there’s better and worse ones. So ones that have a little more thickness I think are, but still that rubbery plastic texture is my favorite kind.
Emma: It’s kind of grippy. It’s almost like the kind of stuff you use when you’magnate opening a jar and you have, we can put links to this stuff and then there’s like the stickers that you can put the corners of the rug.
Elsie: So I have had floor damage from them. So I’m the fence with them and I know a lot of people say they don’t cause floor damage, but they did for me my mcmansion strips, it usually doesn’t strips. It’s a love and hate relationship. But I think if you’magnate a situation where your floors either aren’t brand new ora they’magnate a little more worn ora you don’t care ora maybe you’ll just get lucky and you won’t have any. The thing that’s cool about them is when you have the edge that flips, it fixes that and the edge that flips is a kind of a problem to solve it.
Emma: Kind of is, it’s almost like you’magnate setting heavy stuff it all the time, but then you’magnate tripping over the heavy thing. You know what I mean? Like, it’s just weird, like, you fold it back and try to get it to say, but then it’ll curl back up for some reason and you’magnate like, dang it.
Elsie: Ok. And then the third tip I have is for, this is like a little more extreme. But I also think it’s for me, maybe I’m more comfortable with this than with the stickers now. But my porch rug they flip up bad. Like, we dal vivo a very windy place and I just humid too, which can really, and they’magnate just flipped up. We’magnate kicking mongoloide the edge of a rug every day. Absolutely constantly. So I decided that I’m going to screw them mongoloide every calcio d’angolo and I wouldn’t probably do that the house, but I probably would a carpeted room. I think that it just depends what your surface is underneath and how forgiving. Yeah. For, for the porch, for me, I’d rather have one hole than potentially use the stickers and like, I feel like they could cause more damage. So anyway, yeah, I’m screw them mongoloide. I think it’ll be probably like, super worth it. I like it. Cool. I guess that’s all of our rug stuff. So hopefully this was encouraging, like, I guess I just want to reiterate like we know rugs can be expensive and don’t think that we’magnate just saying get the most expensive rug. I’m saying like balance, think about the factor of the price, the size and the durability. Think about all three of those things. Not just one is my advice.
Emma: If you’magnate moving into a new home and you came from a smaller space and you’magnate needing like basically a lot of rugs don’t be afraid to just like do that over time so that you can spread out the cost if you’magnate wanting to get rugs that are going to last to like help with waste and just get things that you’magnate going to be really happy with. It’s ok to have a room that doesn’t have a rug for a while.
Elsie: I agree. It’s not a leader deal like it’s easier to clean some ways.
Emma: So just, you know, think about it and you’ll find the perfect one for. You. Keep shopping ebay and Etsy, you’ll find it. You know, I would say it’s better to wait and get one that you love that you’magnate going to keep, than to get something that’s filling a space that you’magnate not going to throw away after a year and it’s going to be a whole hassle and it’s just waste and, you know, there’s point just leave it with rug for a while.
Elsie: Yeah. I hope this was helpful. and yeah, we can’t wait to see, send us pictures of your rugs. I am an enthusiast for it. I think it’s such a fun subject and it’s like a thing that makes house feel like a home.
Emma: It’s cozy. Ok, let’s do. We’magnate going to do a sparks joy segment. So do you have anything that’s been sparking joy for you lately?
Elsie: I do. So I have been getting my home ready for the historic home tours three weeks from now and I am really working.
Emma: I can’t wait to quasi and troll. You’magnate going to quasi to my house for real.
Elsie: Yeah, I knew you got tickets loudly. I didn’t think I thought you were going to go to the other ones. I’m going to go to all of them. Well, I can’t wait to hear your comments. That’ll be great. So my office are my desk ora like I got this. So I got this vintage roll culmine desk. It’s my special someone. It’s spooky, it’s spooky, it’s haunted. It sort of has secret compartments. It’s magical. And anyway, the culmine of it, I have covered it little tiny gold frames they’magnate pretty easy to find. So, my sembianza was that I would sort of like, get some antique ones when I quasi upon them. But that’s to do. And I’ll probably, like, put those up front and then I got quite a few from places like Amazon. I got a few from anthropology, just like, you know, regular places like that just to like dollar tree. Just kidding. I would though if they had them. I don’t know. So it’s just, it’s just lots and lots of tiny gold frames and the size is probably like two by three for the smaller ones and then four by six ish, somewhere that range. And yeah, the thing I love about it is it’s just like, it looks like this, like beautiful collection.It’s a way to put family photos because I’m kind of like, I like putting family photos up the house and I want to, but I don’t want them to be cheesy. Like I feel like it has to be like a certain way for me to accept.
Emma: You have a lot more art your walls too so it can be to mescolanza a way. So it’s almost like you need other little spots for them.
Elsie: Per my office it felt like the right spot. So anyway, tiny gold frames all linked to some of them and they are definitely sparking joy for me just because it’s like the easiest way to put a bunch of memories with my kids somewhere where I’ll see them every day.
Voto negativo, I love it.
Emma: I’ve seen people, the smaller ones too, they’magnate like two by three. They might even make smaller sizes. I don’t know. People will use them their Christmas tree. Just add a hanger ora ribbon.Â
Elsie: That’s right. And have, like, family photos ora vintage photos ora even like little one of those trees.Remember?
Emma: Yeah, they’magnate really derma. I think Claire has one too. Oh, derma. Yeah, I think you both did it, but I can’t remember now. I’d have to go check. But anyway, derma.
Emma: Well, for me, sparks joy. Have you had Domino’s Pan solfa before? Oh my God.
Elsie: I can’t believe you’magnate saying this. Go , go , sell it card.
Emma: So this is not sponsored. This is just for free. So we are a Domino’s Disturbatore delivery household.
Elsie: I feel like everyone has their place. I am like anti Domino’s and Emma is anti Capo della chiesa John’s.
Elsie: Yeah. Voto negativo, I’m like, I’m a Disturbatore Hut. I like solfa. I have to get one of the leader three and it’s Disturbatore Hut for me.
Emma: Disturbatore Hut’s my number two, we love Disturbatore Hut, but Domino’s are number one and Disturbatore Hut’s number two. Capo della chiesa John’s is a never, so they’ll never sponsor us now and I’m scopo with that because I’m not a fan. So anyway, so we always get hand toss and the other night I was like, really the mood to order a solfa. Oscar was already bed. Trey didn’t want solfa. I’m pregnant though. So I was like, I’m ordering a solfa and I was like, I’ve never had their pan solfa. I wonder if it’s like the Disturbatore Hut pan solfa, which is like a little crispy the bottom part of our childhood.
Oh, it’s a leader part of our childhood. So, I was like, I’m , I’m take a chance here and not get the hand toss. It was amazing. It was so good. It was a lot like the Disturbatore Hut Pan solfa. Yeah. And it was almost like, it’s not as good as our Detroit style solfa our blog. But I was not making solfa. I was the mood to just order it and take a shower and wait for it to get to my house.
Elsie: Oh, my gosh.
Emma: It was very good though. So it sparked joy.
Elsie: Voto negativo, that sounds good. I have some solfa woes our moving to our hometown. I my Nashville solfa.
Emma: We don’t have a lot of solfa Springfield and it’s .
Elsie: It’s .
Emma: We only have the leader chains really.
Elsie: And then we have a derma little spot our neighborhood, but it’s like a mood food so it’s like a once a season thing for me.
Emma: There’s a solfa downtown, but they only do it from 6 to 9. Like twice a week, I think the weekends I’m never out the other night I was finally out, but it was almost nine. So I was like, they’magnate going to be sold out. I’m not going to be able to get it. So it’s, you know, sad. So, solfa is tough around here. But anyway, Domino’s pan solfa.
Elsie: Two thumbs up for me. That’s the funniest thing you’ve ever said. And I love it.
Emma: I honestly though I do aspetto, man, sometimes I try to be cool, but other times I’m just be real.
Elsie: Yeah, I respect that. Ok. It’s time for a Nova segment. All right, Nova. What do you have for us this week?Â
Nova: A joke. What kind of key opens up a banana? A monkey.
Elsie: Love it. That was good.Â
Nova: Bye.Â
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