Warm Up Your Home with Winter Rugs This Season
Not everyone can afford, or even wants, underfloor heating in their home, but there are many different ways you can warm your floors up in the colder months without having to dig anything up. We’d always recommend finding the perfect stylish winter rug for your home to help beat the chill, and with over 30 years of experience, we can safely say we know what we’re talking about.
Adding a winter rug to your home is the most cost-effective, decorative way to warm up any room in your property.
Read on more to find out why, or start looking straight away at the selection of designs and colours we have in stock.
How Can a Winter Rug Help to Warm 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 a rug, 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 that little bit longer and you won’t have to adjust the thermostat as quickly.
Winter rugs don’t just warm up the room itself, either. The warmth of the material 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 window.
Even Colours Can be Warming
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. They even bring out warm feelings in people when they’re used in wallpaper, furniture, carpets, and rugs.
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 look at it.
Choosing the Right Rug for You
To make sure any room in your home is kept as warm as possible with a winter rug, you’ll want to choose just the right design. To do this, you’ll have to consider what you want from the material, the texture, the size, and the colour of any rug you have in your home.
Choosing the Material
There’s a wide range of materials available to make 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.
Choosing the Texture
Once you’ve picked a material, you may find that some designs offer a better texture than others. Finding the material with the most inviting texture for you and your family should be the next step, so your final purchase is as much a favourite new spot for everyone in your home as it is a new decorative element.
If you find that you like more than one rug and they both have different textures, you might even 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 rugs, you’ll need to think about the size of 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 a rug that covers a large amount of this 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 your winter rug 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. Are there any patterns, colour themes, or stylish elements you can use that will also complement something else in the room? Will it match your sofa and chairs, or the curtains over your front window?
Most importantly, will it look good to you? This is perhaps the most important question for you to answer before you choose a colour for your winter rug.
Find Your Ideal Winter Design
Now you know how having the perfect winter rug in your home will keep it warm this winter, why not take a look at the designs and styles we can offer? Browse through our options for soft, fluffy rugs in a variety of colours and patterns and find the one you’ll be happy to sink your feet into on a cold December morning today.