Accentuate Your Kitchen&#39;s Warmth With Rugs

Accentuate Your Kitchen's Warmth With Rugs

The use of rugs is an old practice for homes. Handcrafted rugs were used in old Asia for prayers and for adornment. Today, craftsmen spend hours production works of arts from patterns handed down through generations and modern make patterns on rugs. A kitchen can be enlivened by a kitchen accent rug.

Use a braided rug for a bungalow kitchen; for a modern kitchen try a vintage art-deco rug. If you have a kitchen with a country style decor, use a rooster rug. Floral rugs can add color to any style kitchen and they are a excellent expanding to any existing decor! Kitchen accent rugs come in various styles, shapes and materials to suit every need and every kitchen. Try one out today and believe me you would begin cooking more just to savor the look of a luxurious rug adorning your kitchen floor!

Most of these kitchen rugs are made up of acrylic; you could any way opt for the expensive ones in wool, faux fur or real fur as well. Rugs for a kitchen must be anti-static and could even be done up with an old wash. This gives them an old look and accentuates their beauty. Silk rugs can add warmth and charm to your kitchen. If these are beyond your budget, pick one where an synthetic silk yarn is used consisting of cotton, rayon or polyester weaves. It is soft to touch and looks like the real silk ones! A silk or look-alike silk kitchen accent rug with Arabesque pattern can add that sophistication to a modern kitchen. Arabesque is an intricate pattern of intertwined leaves, vines and flowers.

Besides various varieties of hand made rugs, Axminster kitchen accent rugs are quite favorite too. While the industrial revolution in England,in the town of Axminster, this style of loom and weaving came into being. These are machine made allowing flexibility of color and designs. A cotton frame is piled with materials cut into one level and pile tufts held together by wefts. You will find Axminster rugs in over 70 colors and as many geometric or floral designs!

If you are looking for real luxury in your kitchen, pick a Flokati rug. Nothing can accentuate the charm of your kitchen like a hand-woven sheep wool rug. These shaggy, fluffy rugs have pleasing natural colors and are measured by the wool weight per square meter. With the increase in their weight, the thickness and fluffiness of the rug increases too. However, with the plush increase, the price of the rug increases as well.

Other choices for your kitchen accent rug could be bamboo rugs where natural bamboo fibers are woven into designs to give a hardwood floor effect. The more sophisticated, formal and detailed designs of a Ukrainian rug called Bessarabian may be exactly what your kitchen needs. Or maybe an embossed or embroidered cotton pile rug may add that extra something.

Whether you buy a hand- woven, hand-knotted, hand- hooked or tufted rug or even a machine made rug; it will always add a zing to your kitchen decor. With a well plan -of and thought about chosen kitchen accent rug, even the inexpensive variety can turn your kitchen area into a family hangout zone!