Two rugs can sit side by side in the same online listing, wear the same pattern, cost within fifty dollars of each other, and have completely different futures. One will look better in ten years than it does today. The other will have a matted gray path worn through it by next Christmas. The photo … Read more

Of all the ways to get a rug wrong — and I’ve catalogued my own failures in the complete rug buying guide — size is the one people regret most, and the one they regret longest. A bad color grows on you. A shedding rug eventually stops shedding. But a too-small rug is too small … Read more

I’ve bought eleven rugs in my adult life. I regret four of them. One is rolled up in a closet because it sheds so badly we gave up on it, one faded into a color I can only describe as “old bandage,” and two were simply the wrong size — a mistake I made twice, … Read more