Seagrass smells Nice

[primsong]

My downstairs has this awful old berber carpeting, but new carpeting is waaaay down the monetary priorities list so I've been looking for a rug I could hide a goodly chunk of it with, though I need to avoid wool and all the non-wool ones I could find were essentially already the color of dirt (brown, beige, grey, black, yellowish tones etc.) and thus no improvement.  Why do all the bright colored ones only come in stupid little-kid designs? All adults are only allowed to look at dirt?

Anyway...much happiness ensued today as I found a wonderful light colored 10x8 mat of woven seagrass for a song at a promo sale and it smells just heavenly, like a delicate sweet hay, while not being prickly like jute.  It's not a cheery color (I was kind of hoping for something in peacock or lavender) but I'm quite content with a natural, clean look too.   Mm.

What sort of floor coverings have you found yourself gravitating to?

Comments

[archersangel]

i think rugs are often the color of dirt so you don't notice the dirt if you go to someone's house & they haven't vacuumed.

i hear that's also why hotels have crazy colors/patterns on the carpet in the high-traffic areas.

[primsong]

I'm sure it must be, I had a friend with small children who brought home samples of linoleum for her kitchen and dropped crunched up dry spaghetti on them - the one it blended in best with is the one she got.

I like it when they at least offer clean, bright colors and then have a little bit of fleck or swirl to help hide the house fuzz-and-crumbles without appearing to be pre-dirty, but I also noted the current fashion 'trend' seems to be leaning toward greys - not something I want in my cloudy Oregon, I have enough grey already just looking out the window!