Not everyone wants, underfloor heating in their home, but with winter rugs you can warm your floors up in the colder months without having to dig anything up.
Winter rugs are the most cost-effective, decorative way to warm up any room in your home.
HOW CAN WINTER RUGS HELP TO WARM UP YOUR HOME?
There isn’t just one way that a rug can warm up your home. The first way that most people think about is the insulation they provide to your floor. Cold air can often enter a room from underneath the floorboards, so by laying down winter rugs, you’ll be trapping the air and preventing it from entering your home and making it colder. It will also help keep warm air in the room, meaning the heat will last for a little bit longer preventing you from having to adjust the thermostat as quickly.
The warmth of the material from winter rugs can also help to keep your feet warm when you walk on it, or when you’re sitting somewhere with the rug underneath your feet. This keeps you feeling cosy, no matter how windy, rainy, or snowy it is outside your home.
CHOOSING THE RIGHT MATERIAL
There’s a wide range of materials available to make winter rugs from, and picking your ideal rug material should be done as carefully as you would when choosing what clothes to wear on a cold day.
A thin material won’t provide much insulation, so choosing something shaggy, or something made of wool, is the best way to keep the heat trapped in a room and the cold air out.
Having a rug with a dense, heavyweight pile will also feel soft and warm on your feet, so you can stay even warmer when you sink your feet into it first thing in the morning, or in the evening when you come home from work.
At Dehaviland Flooring & Interiors we stock a variety of winter rugs and you can rest assured that all our scraps will be recycled or ethically disposed of thanks to the excellent team at Reliable Rubbish Removals.
CHOOSING THE TEXTURE
Once you’ve picked a material, you may find that some designs offer a better texture than others.
If you find that you like more than one rug and they both have different textures, you could always think about doubling up and overlaying them for a Bohemian look. Or, you can pick two similar colours and styles that both match your room and make them a fashionable floor arrangement.
CHOOSING THE SIZE
When thinking of insulating your floors with winter rugs, you’ll need to think about the size of the rug you need to get maximum floor space coverage. If you have wooden, concrete, or tile floors on your home’s ground floor, this is especially important because they will lose a lot of heat over the area they take up.
Having winter rugs that cover a large amount of floor space will stop quite as much heat from being lost in your home. It also means you can find somewhere warm and soft to plant your feet when the house is cold in the morning!
CHOOSING THE COLOUR
Picking out the right colour for winter rugs will be based as much on personal preference as it will be based on which colour, hue, or shade looks warmest to you.
You’ll want to look for the rug which matches your room best, so think about which room in the house you’re looking to decorate.
Just having a winter rug in the right colour can make your home feel warmer, too. Certain colours, like shades of red, orange, yellow, beige and brown are all banded together on the colour wheel and are associated with things that are warm, like fire or the sun.
This means that having the right colour rug in your room won’t just insulate it to help keep out the cold, or warm up your feet when you step on it; it will help to make the whole place feel that little bit warmer and more welcoming as soon as you enter it.
FIND YOUR PERFECT WINTER RUGS
Now you know how having the perfect winter rugs in your home will keep it warm this winter, why not take a look at the designs and styles we can offer?
At Dehaviland Flooring and Interiors, we have an enviable selection of winter rugs from a variety of manufacturers including Fibre Flooring, Penthouse Carpets and Elements of London.
Visit our Worcester Carpet and Flooring Showroom at 32 The Tything, Worcester, WR11 1JL.