Hi everybody, welcome back to Ask Alicia, the weekly series where you ask me questions and I answer them.

Maybe. Let's get to your first question this week. First question comes from Sony Kosio. Hi, Sony or Sonny. I hope I said

your name correctly. Sonny asked, what's the difference between carpet and rug? Super interesting question.

It's very simple, actually. A rug, usually,

is the piece of fabric that you bring into a room to set on the floor. Carpet, however, is usually used for the floor covering that is already in the room.

So for example, if you buy a house or if you move into a rental house or rental apartment,

carpet is usually the word that we use for the floor covering that is already there.

That's usually the word that we use.

Perhaps you will hear people refer to that as a rug, but usually people

refer to that as a carpet. So you could say like, oh no, I stained the carpet, or I'm not sure

I like the carpet color in this room. It sounds like carpet is something that is fixed in the room.

Like you can't pick it up easily and move it to another room.

So carpet refers to this thing that is already in that space.

That's the floor covering there.

That's usually soft, okay?

On the other hand, rug refers to something you can usually roll up and you can roll it out

in the room and create your own covering for the floor. So these can be

maybe soft, they can be like beautiful like pieces of artwork. So a rug is something that you can

easily pick up and move to another room if you want. So it is also a floor covering, but it is not

fixed in place. So again, you may hear people kind of try to use carpet and rug interchangeably.

You may hear people do that, but basically a rug is something that is very easy to move from room to room.

One more word that I think is useful to include in this group then is the word mat.

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