The Essential Buying Guide for Fluffy Rugs
Fluffy rugs are one of the most popular rug types for a number of reasons. Feeling a thick shag pile underfoot can lend a sense of luxuriousness and comfort, making them ideal for living rooms and bedrooms. If you’re searching for the perfect fluffy rug for your home, there are some things you should know first.
There are many different materials that make a rug fluffy, and each material has different qualities and different lifespans. In this guide, we’ll cover how to choose the best fluffy rug material for you, what makes a rug fluffy, how to care for a fluffy rug, and take you through the most popular fluffy rugs from our impressive stock.
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Why Are Fluffy Rugs So Popular?
Fluffy rugs are so sought-after simply because of the deluxe comfort that they bring to a room. The plushness underfoot greatly enhances the cosy feel of a room, adding a super soft luxury to wherever your rug is placed.
As well as comfort and cosiness, fluffy rugs add warmth to a room. This is especially felt in rooms with hardwood floors. Adding thick shag rugs to hardwood floors helps with insulation in the cold winter months. And who doesn’t want to step out from their bed onto a soft, lustrous rug, sinking their toes into the plush pile?
Fluffy rugs are also just very aesthetically pleasing. Add sophisticated luxury with the simple placement of a think rug and its dense richness. Whether it’s the elegance of white and cream or the chicness of black, a fluffy rug just looks good.
How Do You Tell How Fluffy a Rug Is?
What makes a rug fluffy? Generally, the fluffiness of a rug is determined by its material and the pile height.
What Are the Fluffiest Rug Materials?
When you’re searching for a fluffy rug for your bedroom or for your living room, you may find that they’re also referred to as shag or shaggy rugs, fluffy rugs, and plush rugs. The most common materials for beautiful fluffy feeling rugs are:
Wool
Wool is the most commonly used material for fluffy rugs because of its high quality and sumptuous softness. This natural material’s impressive durability means it’s long-lasting even under heavy foot traffic: the threads of wool rugs are actually able to spring back after being stepped on. For one of the softest sensations underfoot, a wool rug is hard to surpass and with proper care, it can last for decades.
Faux Fur
Faux fur rugs will often be made of a blend of acrylic and wool. This combination of natural and synthetic fibres gives a super softness for a more affordable price than a 100% woollen blend.
Cotton
Cotton rugs are a great material for a brightly-coloured fluffy rug as the fibre is able to hold dyes extremely well. A cotton rug blended with wool can be pleasingly thick, again giving a more affordable fluffy rug option. Of course, it’s worth noting that the cushioning effect of any rug can be greatly enhanced with thick rug pads or the quality underlay that we stock.
How to Keep a Fluffy Rug Fluffy
The softness and cushioning effect of a fluffy rug is its greatest appeal, so you want these effects to endure. If placed in a high-traffic area like your living room, a fluffy rug may suffer from constant use. With proper care, you can prevent this from happening and keep your fluffy rug fluffy!
Here are a number of methods for regaining fluffiness:
Vacuuming
Make sure to vacuum your fluffy rug once a week to guard against the build-up of dust and debris that can have an impact on fluffiness. Vacuuming also has the effect of “shaking up” the fibres of your rug, having a similar effect to plumping a pillow every now and then.
Spot Cleaning
Keep on top of cleaning your rug to ensure that the fibres are kept clear and therefore remain plump and fluffy. If you’ve spilt anything on your rug, gently scrubbing the area with a white vinegar and baking soda mixture with some warm water and a clean towel should do the trick.
Beat Your Rug
Never underestimate the power of a good rug beating. This works to get rid of dust and debris and “plump” up the fluffiness of your rug by thoroughly freeing the fibres. You can buy specialist rug beaters for this purpose, but just using the handle of a broom or even your hands work fine. You can even just shake out your rug.
Our Fantastic Range of Fluffy Rugs
We are one of the leading suppliers of quality rugs in all shapes and sizes, with hundreds of fluffy rugs available in our range. Here is the selection of our best fluffy rugs, organised by colour and by room suitability:
Our Favourite Fluffy Rugs By Colour
White Fluffy Rugs
White and cream fluffy rugs are a classic choice, bringing the elegant simplicity of these colours to whichever room they’re placed in. White and other very light colours reflect light brilliantly, making for an overall brighter appearance in your home. Make sure you’re up to speed on everything you need to know about white rugs before you buy!
This Polar Cream Rug from Think Rugs is the perfect white fluffy white rug for your living room and bedroom. With a very impressive 85mm pile height, it’s thick and luxurious and is the quintessential shaggy rug.
For a purer white, choose this Montana Ivory Rug, also from Think Rugs. The 80mm pile height is utterly sumptuous and the white is bright and elegant.
Grey Fluffy Rugs
Grey rugs make for a wonderful addition to any room, able to slot in with any interior design style easily. The neutral tones provide the perfect backdrop against which brighter or more zany patterns and colourings can be styled. Or, a fluffy grey rug will slot seamlessly into a chic theme.
This Softness Charcoal Rug from Oriental Weavers lives up to its name and would work wonderfully in a cosy bedroom setting. In fact, grey bedroom rugs are all the rage for their elevated sense of softness.
For true luxury, opt for the Callie Silver Rug by Origins. The deep pile in regal silver provides an opulent rug for your home, with a quality polyester material that will last for years.
Pink Fluffy Rugs
Pink is a versatile colour, able to be playful and vibrant or subtle and elegant depending on its shade. Incorporate the best of pastels with the cool tones of this Royal Nomadic Rose Cream Rug. With a lush 40mm pile height, it’s a shaggy pile that looks fluffy and inviting.
Bring the unbeatable softness of wool with this gorgeous SheepSkins Hug Peach Rug from Origins. The heaviness ensures a beautiful fluffy feeling and the shape is unique and attractive.
Black Fluffy Rugs
Black is bold and beautiful. A black fluffy rug will give your room a stylish focal point that evokes a contemporary chicness.
You’ll feel like you can just sink into this Plush Black Rug from Asiatic. The deep colouring paired with the thick, lustrous pile will demand attention in whichever room its placed.
To incorporate black with a little more subtlety, enjoy the black and white geometric patterns on this trendy 3D Carved Blazon Grey Rug from URCO. The zig-zag pattern is cool and contemporary and the different shades give depth.
Our Favourite Fluffy Rugs By Rooms
Shaggy rugs are particularly great for living rooms and bedrooms because one of the main functions of these rooms is comfort and relaxation. A fluffy bedroom rug or a fluffy living room rug will perfectly complement this function.
Fluffy Rugs for Bedrooms
Blue is a beautiful colour for a bedroom rug, creating a calming sanctuary for this cosiest of rooms. Try this Shimmer Indigo Rug by Origins for a deep blue that’ll just envelop you.
The lighter blue of Origins’ Chicago Duck Egg Rug will bring a lovely sense of brightness to your bedroom, inviting you to sink your toes into its plush pile.
Or, go for the warm woody hues of this Extravagance Mink Rug, which will pair perfectly with darker tones for a gorgeous cosy feeling in your bedroom.
Fluffy Rugs for Living Rooms
Your living room rug can really depend on your home decor style and on the room size. You may want a large area rug that fits under your furniture to tie a seating area together, or you may just want a small rug as a decorative piece. Whatever your preference, we have a large range of living room rugs for any home. Learn how to choose the perfect size rug for your living room with our handy guide.
For a large area rug, this Rocks Shaggy Ochre number from Origins is multicoloured and very fluffy. The 100% wool material makes for deluxe comfort and the pattern makes for a fantastic focal point.
Or, this Montana Silver Rug is incredibly thick and comes in a range of elegant shapes and sizes.
For true deluxe comfort, choose this Chicago Forest Green Rug to bring a sense of the outdoors into your living room and sink your toes into its mossy pile.
Find the Perfect Rug to Transform Your Home With Rugs Direct
Whether you’re looking for fluffy rugs for your living room or bedroom or looking for large or small fluffy rugs, we’re sure to have the perfect choice for you in our impressive stock. We’re committed to making your shopping experience as smooth as possible: shop by room, colour, size or type and find your dream fluffy rug.
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