Showing posts with label Oriental. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Oriental. Show all posts

Saturday, September 10, 2011

Oriental Rugs

Posted by MAKMU ta On Saturday, September 10, 2011

RugSale.com was founded by the largest importer of Oriental rugs in New England. We offer a large selection of area rugs with the finest collection of Persian rugs to fit into the decor in any area of your home. We pay for shipping to your door inside the continental US.

Professional designers choose an oriental rugs first to define the palette of colors for the room, even with bath rugs and kids rugs. The Oriental area rugs have to visually tie the other colors in the room together. Unlike shag rugs oriental rugs have elaborate patterns and multiple colors.

The best procedure when decorating a room is to pick rugs in the colors you like best and build the room décor around that.

RugSale.com has oriental rugs, whether they are hand knotted or hand tufted rug, for every area of your home with arrays of colors and styles to fit any taste.



A division of Kaoud Oriental Rugs, RugSale.com is the fastest growing online retailer of oriental area rugs in the North America. We buy from the best suppliers from around the world, which means our selection and prices are unbeatable. We have relationships with the best manufacturers like; Nourison, Oriental Weavers, Shaw rugs, Dalyn rug, Momeni rugs, Couristan rugs, Capel rugs, and Chandra Rugs. From the best synthetic carpet rugs to the highest quality wool rugs, you will find the oriental rugs that fit you décor perfectly at RugSale.com.


We have been taking care of the publics décor needs for over 50 years. With 3 generations experience in this industry, we can satisfy all of your oriental area rug needs. We offer a dizzying selection of styles at rock bottom prices. Every area rug has free shipping within the Continental United States. We have an extensive line of discount rugs l and we offer a 150% Low Price Guarantee and a 30-Day In Home Trial so you can be sure the rug you saw on the computer screen looks just as good in your home.

Whether you are looking to start from scratch with a new room or add new life to an existing rooms decor , oriental rugs are the perfect way to change the ambiance or character of a room.

In addition to decor and design changes, oriental area rugs can help absorb the noise level in a room with otherwise hard surface floors.
It can also add warmth to cold wood or ceramic flooring.

There's an endless array of area rug styles and designs to choose from like contemporary to traditional or European to far eastern designed Oriental rugs in stock and ready to ship.

Wednesday, May 19, 2010

Posted by MAKMU ta On Wednesday, May 19, 2010

To Bangkok with love...

Yesterday a very kind neighbour brought me
these exquisite orchids from Bangkok...

Today, as I admire their beauty,...

... I can't help but feel that my turning them this way and that...

... feels a little like an insult to the people of Bangkok,
whose worries are on a different scale...

So today, I will take a moment...

...to really appreciate what I have got...

Today, I will take two moments or three...

... to think about the people of Bangkok, with love...

(The vase is wrapped in pages from an old Turkish book.)

Thursday, April 1, 2010

Posted by MAKMU ta On Thursday, April 01, 2010

Room for dreams...





Today I invite you to put your feet up, to rest for a brief moment, to join me on a journey to the land where dreams are soft and bright, and where you can wake up feeling refueled and rejuvenated. Or at least have a little snooze, snore if you wish, and dream of nothing, nothing at all...

Today we are in the room often referred to so amusingly in this country, the "master bedroom". A bemused smile escapes me. "Master"... where then lies the mistress? Or is it perhaps master as opposed to servant? Either way, it is a bedroom. Where sleep carries us into the next day. If we are lucky enough not to be disturbed by small people, that is. Children, whose dreams may steer their sleep carriage into the land of dragons and "baddies", rather than all things fluffy and fine.

That's when the faux fur throw becomes their close companjon, keeping them safe. That's when synchronised snooring becomes their lullaby, and the pile of pillows their castle.

That's when zzzzzzzzzzzz...........




Monday, March 22, 2010

Posted by MAKMU ta On Monday, March 22, 2010

A plastered Swede...


And so it was that there was a rushed Swede on a fly-by visit to Stockholm in September 2007. The Casa Cor exhibition had just started and I had about 15 minutes to spare. With ca 40 architects and interior designers having created a wild and wacky home for an imaginary family, those 15 minutes were going to be jam-packed with impressions and inspiration, and I did not intend to miss a thing.
In one room hung some art work that caught my eye and made me think, like so often when I see something I can't afford, " What if I could try to make that myself?"

And so it was that a stubborn Swede returned to the UK carrying a baby in arms, whilst ushering a three-year-old along, pushing a pram and pulling a suitcase... and carrying two big buckets of Swedish plaster ("spackel"). After having searched everywhere in vain for English plaster behaving like the Swedish grainy, sandy kind, and refusing to give up on my experiment, this seemed a very natural solution to me. Needless to say, some other family members expressed some concern about my sanity and were quietly mocking my madness.

As much as I loathe working with MDF, this seemed like the best material for the square and the circle, which were then screwed together and covered in a thick layer of plaster. With the back end of an art paint brush, I made the lines to give it the texture I had in mind, and painted it with a matt gold and matt blackboard paint. As I did not have a picture of the art work that had inspired me, I had to try to recreate it from memory.

The result? A round golden wallthingamajig that seems to work rather well in our Oriental-inspired bedroom. Mocking family members mock no longer.



So, did it in the end ressemble the real deal? The picture to the left below is from Casa Cor. Conclusion: Same, same, but different.


Photo from a blog called "Living in Andyland".

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Posted by MAKMU ta On Saturday, February 20, 2010

Incy Wincy...



OK, I think it is time to get personal. After all, I have been exposing myself as a blogger for more than a week, so I think it is time to reveal the truth about my home. Show it as it is, warts and all. Alright, maybe warts would be a little too much for my readers, but here it is, the embarrassing and awkward reality.

Cobweb. Yep, spiders seem to believe that squatting here and there in our house will make us give it up and sign over the deeds to these eight-legged horrors. Well, they obviously have not met a Swede on a mission before. Armed with the hoover, telescoped to full length, I counter-attack. Ceiling, corners, under tables, they can run but they can't hide. Not from a Viking. Not from me and my hoover, fuelled by my hatred for them and their wicked webs. And so: victory, mission completed. Sweaty but satisfied I carry the hoover back downstairs and applaud myself on a job well done.

Or so I thought. Those of you with an eye for detail will already have spotted it. The subtle revenge of one stubborn spider. Too subtle for my ageing eye to see through the camera, but plainly obvious when blown up on the computer. My cherished bird cage, covered in cobweb. Now there is a beautiful example of man versus nature. Or woman versus irritating spider, as it were. One - nil to the spider.

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Posted by MAKMU ta On Thursday, February 18, 2010

Defying gravity...?


Who says baskets need to stand on tables and floors? I like to play Mary Contrary sometimes and avoid placing everything on ground level, or table level, or any flat surface reminding us of Newton's boring law. Hanging things from the ceiling, like lanterns or levitating Buddhas on swing-like shelves, or even upside-down flowers in tune with the season, all very modest outbreaks of civil disobedience. Or perhaps more like interior decorating naughtiness. Or could I plead artistic freedom? At the very least, it makes life a little more interesting.

As for baskets, walls are definitely the way to go.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Posted by MAKMU ta On Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Go East...





For those of you who have just begun to relax into the tranquil white backdrop of our kitchen-diner and the CALM area, it is time to hold on to your seats and open your minds to a little taste of saffron, a whiff of baklava, a hint of the Orient.

And for those of you who may wonder what one does when one cannot find a curtain material one likes, but is head over heals in love with a particular wallpaper? Easy. You hang two strips of wallpaper from the rail and ask them to believe they are curtains. Think wallpaper. Be wallpaper. And oh yes, you also prey your baby who is just getting ready to walk does not decide to pull himself up grabbing any curtains... Success rate on last prayers? 100 %. Still hanging and baby boy will be four in March.

And by the way, wallpaper cum curtain prayers require no religion. Just some faith in interior well-being.

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