Starting With The Rug | Space Planning & The Foundation of Your Room

Dear Alice | Interior Design

Alice Lane

Arts, Design, Visual Arts

4.7 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2019

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Always Start with the RUG! The Rug is the biggest piece of art in the room and the foundation of creating your space. Understanding how the whole room functions start by picking out the rug, which is why you don't start with a small one. In this episode, we talk about the 'flying carpet effect,'how to pick the right rug for your space, the different between hand-knotted oushak rugs, blanket rugs, jute rugs, machine rugs, and country styles, Carpeting, carpet cleaning, and heaps more. Remember these topics come directly come from your questions on social media so make sure you hit us up with the links below. https://www.instagram.com/alicelaneinteriors/ https://www.instagram.com/alicelanehome/ https://alicelanehome.com/ https://www.facebook.com/AliceLaneHome https://www.pinterest.com/alicelanehome/ https://www.youtube.com/alicelanehomecollectionsaltlakecity Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to Dear Alice, a lifestyle approach to interior design.
0:17.0	Welcome to Dear Alice, I'm super excited about the topic today. Me too. Yeah I can't even
0:27.6	believe it was a question because it's something that we preach all the time.
0:30.4	I know this would be chapter one of our book. Yes look forward to that.
0:34.9	Yes for about I don't know like nine years now Suzanne we've been at this for 11 years so I
0:41.7	want to say like eight or nine years we've
0:43.4	been saying we need to write a book because we learn so much and we're always like
0:47.9	oh this could be an entire chapter we have so much to say about this and so today's question comes from a listener her name is
0:56.5	Larry Rayner and she asks the question do you buy a rug first and build the room
1:02.4	around it.
1:04.0	You guys, we always say we start from the ground up.
1:06.9	We always get the rug first.
1:09.1	That's part of our, once we get to know the client, of course,
1:11.9	and we understand where they're headed
1:13.7	what their vibe is what their look is then we set about finding the perfect
1:17.7	rug to start telling the story of the room. And anyway, after we get the rug nailed down,
1:26.3	then we start throwing fabrics and finishes at the rug.
1:29.4	So the rug is our hero.
1:31.2	And it's like buying the biggest piece of art in the room. If you don't buy
1:35.3	your rug first you're going to end up phoning in your rug. You're going to be getting yourself a
1:39.6	solid rug or a really tiny little pattern that repeats itself over and over again.
1:46.0	Because you're distracted by the really loud floral from the anthropology chair,
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